Unlucky for some?
We travelled 13 miles today. Well to be more precise we travelled from home to London first then we walked the next 13 miles before returning home. We arrived back home about 90 minutes ago. 
We started from where we left off last time, St Paul's Cathedral, walked down Ludgate Hill, up Fleet Street, turned right into Chancery Lane then turned off into Lincoln's Inn Fields, back down Chancery Lane, across Fleet Street and into Inner Temple.
Then out the bottom of Inner Temple Gardens, along the Victoria Embankment past Cleopatra's Needle and the London Eye to Westminster. From Westminster Abbey up to Birdcage Walk and St. James's Park, past Buckingham Palace back to Horseguards Parade, left along Pall Mall, north to Picadilly and St. James's Church, back along Picadilly to Picadilly Circus, south down Regent Street, left along Pall Mall to Trafalgar Square and thence onto the Tube to get our train back home. 
Our legs are worn down to two short stumps and now, I suppose, I'll have to write a trip report of some sort possibly with the occasional photograph (or perhaps I could get away without writing it). 
4 thoughts on “Unlucky for some?”
I have done that walk! I am glad I did not know how far it is.
Now, I had better see a pic of “The Burghers of Calais” You promised
Did you find any elephants on the way?
Annecyborn(Quote)
I, too, have done that leg-shortening, feet-flattening journey
Didn’t know it was 13 miles, either. But remember…those are LONDON miles
How long did it take you?
Any stops along the way for inside visits?
Piccadilly Circus…read that it was being re-routed so traffic, once again, could go around the statue of Eros. Did that happen?
Tracey(Quote)
It took us all day from about 10:45 AM when we came up from the Tube at St. Paul’s to around 6:00 PM when we went down to the Tube again at Trafalgar Square.
It depends on what you mean by ‘inside’.
We went ‘inside’ Lincoln’s Inn Gardens and Middle Temple gardens but we were still outdoors.
We did go into the Undercroft of Lincoln’s Inn Chapel and we went inside the Temple Church (Knights Templar – a bit early for you).
We didn’t want to spend a lot of time indoors on such a lovely day. We saw the outsides of the Sir John Soane Museum and the national Portrait Gallery but decided that we would perhaps have an ‘indoors’ London trip one day when the weather is not good.
As for Piccadilly Circus I can’t actually remember what the traffic was doing although I do remember that there was a lot of it. We didn’t cross onto the ‘island’ but, having walked along Piccadilly, we then turn right down Regent Street and then left along Pall Mall to Trafalgar Square where there we a lot of ‘works’ going on in preparation for a Thailand exhibition/festival/thingy which rather spoiled that upper area.
I don’t think I’ve seen quite so much scaffolding and road works all over the place as we did that day.
Perhaps we should have a National Scaffolding Week and get it all over in a week.
Barry(Quote)
Saw two by Cleopatra’s needle. They were the only ones.
Didn’t.
Barry(Quote)