Weekend Plans
Weekend Plans picks in London.
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Regent's Canal Towpath Broadway Market to Victoria Park Dawn Walk: A Fresh Field Note
A field note documenting the Regent's Canal as a slow-travel corridor through East London—tracing the dawn towpath walk past moored narrow boats, under Victorian brick bridges, through the quiet transition between Broadway Market and Victoria Park.
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The Canal Walk from King’s Cross to Broadway Market That Takes Twice as Long as the Tube
The Regent’s Canal towpath runs east from Granary Square at King’s Cross to Broadway Market in Hackney — about 4.5 kilometres, flat, and alongside water the whole way. The tube does the same journey in twenty minutes. The walk takes closer to ninety. Leave King’s Cross at four in the afternoon in October and you arrive at Broadway Market at blue hour, which is the correct arrival time.
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Saturday Morning Quiz: Stay in Bed or Hackney Market?
A. Keep sleeping. B. Get up, drink an Allpress, walk Broadway Market. It isn't really either/or — it's a quiz about what is actually worth getting out of bed for. Here's the full route, broken into morning, midday and evening.
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Borough Market → Monmouth → Thames at Dusk
Don't rush home. Stop at Borough Market, pick up a Monmouth on Park Street, then walk east along the Thames. The moment the lights on the north bank click on, one by one, the detour earns itself. Here is the route, mapped step by step.
