two more office days this week… I’ll just have to make up for missing out yesterday!
Well, I think I have good reason to be happy with how this week turned out in the end. Racked up almost 300km of commuting over my three days.
Total tiles up from 7265 to 7322
Max cluster up from 1176 to 1279
The London end of my cluster has gone from this:
old cluster by
citoyen, on Flickr
To this:
new cluster by
citoyen, on Flickr
What's particularly satisfying is filling in the holes in the hinterlands of southeast London - places like Woolwich, Abbey Wood, Thamesmead and Belvedere (and having now ticked them off, I really don't think I'll be going back). For my post-work ride home last night, I took the Thames Path all the way from Greenwich to Gravesend, which was very interesting. The landscape is a bit bleak, but the path itself is mostly pretty good - good surface, and wide. It was just the section around Crayford where I started to think maybe a road bike was not the best option - narrow, overgrown trail with a rough gravelly surface (so actually pretty good by Sustrans standards). Also took a small diversion off the main road at Northfleet, into an industrial estate - just far enough to get the necessary tile (it's a dead end, so no through option). This means I now have all the tiles along the Kent side of the river from central London as far as Gravesend.
Last night's ride:
https://www.strava.com/activities/5675392950Now to start filling in some gaps on the Hoo peninsula* and the last few tiles on Sheppey, then I'll have the whole coast around as far as New Romney. Obviously a bit of a hole in West Kent to be filled in too - I found a KML of Kent which will help me make sure my tile bagging rides are strategically focused for maximum gains...
kent tiles by
citoyen, on Flickr
*Technically, Hoo is not in Kent, so I could conveniently overlook that in my quest to fill in the whole of Kent, but that's not really in the spirit, is it?