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Thanks as ever DG.

I walked this stretch last September when the Thames was full of tall ships, and have also been to The Gun a few times (it having that rare combination of good affordable food and a fine view) but, as usual, your narrative has plugged some of the gaps in my knowledge.

In my experience the real menace in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel isn't the cyclists whizzing through the gloom, but rather the moped riders who announce their presence deafeningly as they accelerate up the ramps from the central chicane before having to join all of the more welcome users in the lift. I suppose it must knock three or four miles off a road journey from Greenwich to the southern end of the Isle of Dogs but it doesn't make for the most comfortable of pedestrian experiences.
You chose a nice sunny day! I think your photos here are exceptional. Really sharp and some nice angles and excellent perspectives. Thanks.
Another interesting blog, DG. Glad to see that the comments section is fixed now. I could see the Amersham blog but was unable to say that the photos were very good. Made me think about a visit.
"I'm going to follow the ignored eastern half of the peninsula,,,, which is less blocked off ... than the more popular east."

One of those should read "west", surely?

dg writes: surely.
It's been a really long time, but I'm almost sure your photo caption should say "Samuda" estate and not Sameda. It was built on the site of the old Samuda wharf (whatever that was).

dg writes: Fixed, ta.
The Samuda Brothers were shipbuilders in Cubitt Town. Their ancestors were Sephardic Jews from the Iberian peninsula.










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