14/10/10 - Hammersmith to Kew Gardens

Walk From - Andrew Duncan 50 favorite walks
Number of caches - 6
First cache - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=6bb92e8d-903c-4b0a-b858-abf73371831c
Distance - 6 Miles

Stay in Hammersmith - the Bridge is the natural start of this walk, but I started at the Novotel Conference Centre - which was hosting some sort of Media conference, mainly populated by septics.

Hammersmith is an impressive bridge - looks like the golden gate - and has a cache slap bang in the middle.

Theres a Cache here

The the walk heads up stream, following the thames path.  There are some excellent looking pubs at the start of the walk, but I dont want to go in to early.

The caches on route are mainly 35mm pots or key safes - attached to signs, stuffed into the railings, on the back of road signs and impressively, 7ft in the air under the tunnel at Kew Bridge!  All reasonable to find, even in the dark.  There would have been more in Chiswick Park - but it closes at dusk, so 8pm in October has no chance!

Highlights of the walk were when I came up from the river at Powell's Walk, through a church yard and up into Chiskwick...... at night, with its victorian lighting, lent itself to an atmospheric walk.

The strand on the green is a nice area...... the cache outside the Bulls Head is worth an attempt - complete with a decoy.  I couldnt find on first go and had to go in for a pint of inspiration in the flavour of Timothy Taylor Landlord.  Easy find when I got out!

Then stopped at the City Barge for something to eat... probably made a mistake, as the food in the Bulls head looked better.

Then down to the bridge at Kew, crossing over and getting to the train station before my journey back to the hotel.

Cant really go wrong with LDN river walks, but this was especially quite - had most of the walk to myself.  Some people live in fantastic houses as well....