DC Editor Adam writes…
Gently steaming at my desk after a sodden but lovely Hampstead walk (step count HERE) followed by a school pick-up that would have been better handled by boat on an afternoon when the powers that be decided to keep the class back for making noise while the waiting parents and siblings drowned in the playground outside (!!!!!) I opened up Twitter to find this just in from
David out in the field down Kensington way…
Unabashedly proud of this. Just finished the soggiest Kensington Walk ever. Had just one walker. But we went. We say we're gonna go we go!— London Walks (@londonwalks) January 12, 2017
It was the rainiest afternoon
of the winter so far and one hardy soul turned up on the Kensington walk, and
David kept his end of the bargain.
He's joined what I'm
going to call The One Club - London Walks with only one walker.
Last time it happened
to me was on the Rock & Roll London Pub Walk a couple of years back. It was a
Wednesday night and one woman from Japan turned up for the tour… and no one
else.
But we pressed on.
I started as I usually
start my Rock & Roll London Walks - by asking the London Walkers what music
they like.
"I don't like
Rock & Roll," was my new pal's smiley reply.
"Oh?" I
replied, "What music DO you like?"
"I like One
Direction."
Perhaps she'd imagined
the tour was going to be a bit like the video for One Direction's One Thing,
with the boys "doing a Monkees" in Battersea Park and touring
Whitehall, Embankment, Lambeth Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Chelsea Embankment and
St Paul's Church in an open top bus.
Here's the vid…
The tour, of course,
was nothing like that. The combined age of 1D is only a marginally greater number than the age of your correspondent. The last time I jumped around in pants as tight as THAT the year began in a 1.
But I think we both ended up having a nice time regardless.
But I think we both ended up having a nice time regardless.
I am constantly asked,
"Do you do your London Walks in the rain?" My answer is always the
same - doesn't matter a stuff what I do, YOU seem keen to join me whatever the
weather.
In tribute to this two-way
street of wild eccentricity, I put together this little film - about this time
last year - in the aftermath of a wet and wooly Ghosts of the old City Walk…
I'm sure David will
have something to add, but in the meantime, you can catch up with my earlier
thoughts on rain and "bad" weather walking HERE.
A London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.
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