Posted by Joy Wotton on March 27, 2001 at 15:12:59 from 62.188.151.85:
The Southern Region Committee met on Sunday and, in view of the outbreak of foot and mouth, decided that the Spring Walk should be moved from the countryside to the town. The Teston Trail will now take place in the autumn. There will be a mailing to Southern Region members about this, but we thought I should put details up on Tarboard in case anyone else wished to come along.
Join us on Sunday 22 April in a stroll along the Thames. Meet under
Waterloo Bridge at the National Film Theatre (river side) at 11.00. We will walk along the South Bank past the Globe Theatre, the new Tate at Bankside and the replica Golden Hind towards Greenwich in search of the Trafalgar pub where Arthur Ransome and the future Poet Laureate John Masefield met. This is the day of the London Marathon, but we shall avoid the Marathon’s route.
There are innumerable pubs where we can have lunch along the route,
and members of the Southern Committee have selflessly tested six of them. We hope to make a group booking at the George, an 18th-century coaching inn near London Bridge with excellent food and a large courtyard.
The walk ends at Greenwich, home of the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum, but those who wish can catch a boat upriver to Westminster every 40 minutes. £6 single. £15 for a family ticket (2 adults and 3 kids).
The riverside walk is 7.75 miles long, but there is no need to walk all the way. There are plenty of places where you can catch tube trains and rush on to the teashops, bookshops, covered market and fleshpots of Greenwich.
Call Paul Crisp (01483 487229) or Joy Wotton (020 8981 2906; Joy_Wotton@msn.com) if you are coming so that Joy can book somewhere for lunch. Or just turn up with a picnic!
I've done sections of this walk more often than I can remember and it really is very attactive. Good view of the new Millennium Bridge too, and having been over it on the first day it was open I can assure you that it was just like being a drunken sailor.
Joy