May walking with the East End Girls

The engineering work on the Central Line tried to scupper our plans yesterday but we were having none of it, so abandoning cars in station car parks, making sure loved ones provided lifts and remaining optimistic, 7 of us met at Uxbridge tube to complete another section of the London Loop.

We were walking from Uxbridge to Moor Park, roughly a 9 mile walk which took us along the Grand Union Canal for about 5 miles where we had a very tasty meal in the Coy Carp.

Here are the girls having a relax atBlack Jack's Lock.

After lunch we turned away from the water and headed up along narrow paths through woods teaming with richly scented bluebells, alongside fields of beautiful horses and onto ridges where we had fantastic views over rolling scenery and finally to another Metropolitan Tube station.


Tube stations and wonderful scenery don't always go hand a hand but here they do and being among the furthest reaches of the tube lines, we were truly in the country.

Hopefully, if engineering works allow, we'll be back on the Loop next month walking from Moor Park to Stanmore. Wonder what we'll get to see then?