Question of the week: Do you have a favourite bridge, path, or other spot along the river? "Just the one? Then I'll pick the daddy of them all:the Thames path. This national trail runs all the way from the river's source to the sea, but the sections through central London - roughly Tower Bridge up to Battersea Bridge - run right through the heart of the city, and are delightfully modular, with well-signed paths on both sides of the river, and all the bridges in relatively close order so you can loop around very easily. The stretches between Embankment and Tower Bridge on the North or South side are the section I walk several times a week.
For a longer exploration, though, head away from the bridges entirely, taking the South bank path from Tower Bridge down to the Greenwhich Foot Tunnel, the next pedestrian river crossing. I've said this before, but that stretch really gives a fantastic cross-section of London life, from council estates to very swishy apartments, from the Dickensian warehouses of Shad Thames to the glittering 21st century towers of Docklands, past posh boats, working boats, waste boats and discarded boats, past the Design Museum, Mudchute Farm, the Dome, and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse - plenty to see and explore and to think about. (The path does occasionally part from the river, though, so take an A-Z or some other decent map as a back up to the signs.)"- Miss Alice
* Photo by Nikonmania, used under Creative Commons, with thanks.
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