from - Andrew Duncans Favorite London Walks
Distance - 3 Miles
Start - Holloway Road Tube Station
End - Angel Tube Station
Caches - I found three but there were more. Darkness and locked parks prevented a full list.
Holloway Road to Angel at EveryTrail
Hot footed it up the Picadilly line from Gloucester Road to Holloway Road tube. The walk has an inauspicious start as we walk down the Holloway Road, which seem to be a collection of Kebab Houses.
Things improve as I head towards Drayton Park and the Emirates Stadium looms into view. It dominates the area and lit up nicely at night. Good job I wasnt here 24 hours earlier. Highbury place seems a lovely area but watch out for joggers (in massses) and people doing boxercise in the park.
Then I end up at Highbury and Islington Station and mass civilisation at it's worse. There was an historical Italian nobleman who said of his travels that "France, Germany, Holland and Belgium are much the same, but England resembles an open air lunatic asylum". I can only think that he came to Highbury. We have quite a collection of tramps, and chavs and ne'er-do-wells - including a woman literally barking in the street. Quite glad to get away into the Canbury Road area where the density of people drop down.
I eventually come out on the Essex Road - and an unusual Taxidermist shop. Never seen one of those before - and aptly, it is called "Get Stuffed".
This drops me down to Angel - taking in Camden Passage - an area I know well. I was going to have a post walk pint at the Camden Head but its closed for refurb - so ended up in the Nag's head instead.
London is always a pleasure to walk and there's always something of interest around (usually a pub). This one has the shop where Damian Hirst bought his skull and theatre where Norman Wisdom made his debut. The things you learn from caching.
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