Interesting Tube Ride Today

[psychocandy]

London (both the central Zone 1 and also generally) is quite large.
Yes there are stations that are in reality close to each other eg Bank and Liverpool st., or Bayswater and Paddington.
But try walking in Zone 1 from Liverpool St to Victoria. Paddington to London Bridge. Notting Hill to St Pancras. Or Pimlico to Euston.

Closest together = Leicester Square and Covent Garden apparently.

[BrilloPad]

Closest together = Leicester Square and Covent Garden apparently.

LOok down the tunnel from one station and you can see the other.

[OrangeHopper]

Well I'm off to Westminster right now to go fondle some fishing rods in Farlows and then walk back long the river.

[amcdonald]

I have taken the tube I think 3 times. There is something about hurtling through tunnels older than I am with my safety in the hands of someone that just may be tired or just having a bad day, makes me slightly uncomfortable.

You are CanDo!

[DaveB]

Last time I was down here I regularly walked from Fenchurch St. to Kings Cross. It's not actually as far as it sounds.

Home to client is actually only about 15 miles, but takes over an hour by public transport. I can do the same milage in the same time or less on a bike.

[hyperD]

I used to walk from Baker St to Soho such that I despised the tube so much.

[Sysman]

I mostly walk these days*, it's surprising how small London is.

*I do get the tube back to my digs of an evening, admittedly...

I really enjoyed a week long course on Oxford Street one warm summer. It was always pleasant to walk at least some of the way back to the hotel.

But years later, after I'd lived in Paris I got caught out by thinking tube stops were as close together as they are on Le Metro.