HK will be looking later today at some GPX rerouting around the London Summer Run (Parliament Square to Tower Bridge) and London Duathlon (around Richmond Park) road closures. No doubt some grumbling will be involved.
Already sorted with a message from from Bill for the Summer Run:
At Buck House take the 2nd exit from the Victoria Memorial, into Birdcage Walk to Parliament Square towards Westminster Bridge, turn left before bridge and onto the blue painted cycleway with the river on your right - follow that all the way to Tower Bridge and re-join the route [or, as our group is going to do : immediately past London Bridge turn left up Fish Street Hill, past The Monument, into Gracechurch Street and then right into Leadenhall Market to rejoin the route]
The cycleway, having no junctions or lights, will be rather faster than the usual route . . . and still have some "sights" :
Scotland Yard (old & new)
Ministry of Defence
RAF Memorial
Cleopatra's Needle
Shell-Mex House (Art Deco building with big clock)
The Savoy Hotel (the front door - the one you usually see is really the back door!)
Somerset House (back of, was the Public Records Office)
The Temple (law chambers)
Unilever House
Blackfriars underpass (with separate cycle tunnel)
Wobbly footbridge (underneath it!)
Billingsgate Fish Market (the old one)
Pudding Lane (Great Fire of London started here, allegedly)
The Monument
The Duathlon website suggests that the events may be pretty much finished by late afternoon? I need to have a look at an alternative route if necessary.
