I had a friend accompany me on this one as he was a keen photographer and if you look in the right places you can always find the right picture, the general idea was to walk the same path I went to get to Old Kent Road but 1 of the reasons I'm doing this is for scenery and not to see the same thing all over again so I decided to walk along the Thames path until we reached London Bridge and go from there.
Whitechapel is known for mainly Jack the Ripper and didn't know what to expect when visit there and had never been this far East before so it would be interesting.
The walk was originally meant to take 2hrs and 45mins but due to parts of the Thames path being closed due to buildings being built, we got massively diverted and it ended up taking 4 hours to get there and worse was to come.
Me and my friend were very confused about a number of things which we came upon on our travels: such items include about 30 pairs of trainers being hung up by chains on the brink of the Thames water (why! we don't know!) also we thought we came across the Battersea power station which is known for it's 4 massive chimneys and some Blue Peter presenter did a tightrope across all 4 (answers to me please) the one we came across only had two!! Later we came across the actual Battersea power station and were totally confused as to what the one with 2 chimneys was!!
Once we stepped foot in Westminster the rain clouds started gathering! I was worried as I was wearing a pair of £3 primark trainers which were great for walking but when it rained they sucked up water like a hover.
When we crossed London Bridge, my trainers were absolutely soaked and could hear the water squeezing in-between my toes.
We did across Pudding Lane where the great fire of London started. Another piece of history we came across, I would had took a picture but last time I got my phone camera out when it was raining I had no phone for a month and wasn't going to take the chance, plus gives me another chance to walk to somewhere whenever I get bored!
We finally got to Whitechapel Road but the road sign was dirty and behind some fencing and I deemed this not good enough for me so went down the long Whitechapel Road and staying in the rain. This did let me see the local surroundings and it was very strange. Most of Whitechapel Road was accomdated by the Muslim community so there were loads of Halal meat, places of worship (temples) places like this are either OK or very awkard, I had a few run-ins where I've been told to turn around sometimes but this didn't seem like the kinda place that would be the same as it was also on a main road so had nothing to worry about.
5 mins later I found a road sign which was worthy of taking a picture for my collection and found a train to take me back home soaking from head to toe. My friend said he saw one of the girls from 'Made in Chelsea' on our train but there would be so many reasons why she would be on a underground train.
Browns done and will be hitting the first station and some blues!!
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