himself and howard began on the steps of st. pauls. crossing the wobbly (or millenium) bridge they made a brief divergence in search of crossbones cemetery (sadly it was shut but they looked through the railings). then down towards the newington causeway bit of elephant and castle.
soon they had escaped into the new london of pedestrianised pseudo-public spaces.
their route was the recently instituted (well 2 years ago) green link route from wood street to peckham (as demonstrated in its entirety by john rogers). in this they were only partially successful not having the map but relying on the signage and howard's phone.
they pressed on through burgess park (by the lakes) and then down the dried up route of the grand surrey canal to peckham library.
here they paused for refreshment in a wetherspoons the kentish drover (tea, coffee, chips in curry sauce) before deciding to head up into the hills and visit the horniman museum.
had horsemouth realised how vertical the ascent was to the horniman he would have declined. eventually they gained the top of the hill and lay in the shade of the trees admiring the view to the west.
their main interest in the horniman was the musical instruments gallery. they were too tired to attend to the taxidermied animals.
the whole walk there was probably about six miles all told.
they then descended into forest hill in search of beer
finding a bearable bar they sat outside and drank and discussed weighty matters (two pints and some chips) and then another pub (a further two pints). the second pub was probably their mistake (or maybe the second beer in the second pub).
they then made their way home. horsemouth doesn't feel too bad on it (but he does have the morning to recover).
today a wander in the hills of high barnet (and possibly some second hand book-shopping).
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