We noticed a few things this week.
A few theaters, some roasteries, that cute florist you didn’t know existed, and more cozy spots from the cities we live in.
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The Canal Walk from King’s Cross to Broadway Market That Takes Twice as Long as the Tube
Walk the Regent’s Canal from King’s Cross to Broadway Market: 4.5 km, 90 minutes, flat towpath. Leave at 4pm in October and arrive at blue hour.
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Walking Off the Brooklyn Bridge Into the Neighborhood Below
Walk the Brooklyn Bridge, turn left into DUMBO, and keep going until you reach Pier 1 at blue hour. Forty minutes, and none of it is the obvious path.
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The Java Beach-to-Lands End Walk, Along the Coast of What Used to Be a Pleasure Railway
A 5km coastal walk from a family-run Outer Sunset café, along Ocean Beach, through the Sutro Baths ruins, and onto a Victorian pleasure-railway bed that is now the Lands End Coastal Trail.
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The Joo Chiat-to-East-Coast Walk, in Three Different Decades at Once
A forty-five-minute walk from Joo Chiat Road's 1920s Peranakan shophouses through a 1970s reclamation-era park to the sea — three decades of Singaporean urban planning in one route.
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Borough Market → Monmouth → Thames at Dusk
Get off at London Bridge instead of your usual station. Fifty unhurried minutes between Borough Market and Tower Bridge buys you the blue-hour switchover — a free piece of London most Londoners walk past.
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Saturday Morning Quiz: Stay in Bed or Hackney Market?
Allpress in Dalston at 9am, Broadway Market by 11, London Fields at 6pm. The Saturday arc that accumulates into a day the 11am-risers never get to have.
