Sign in front of the entrance to the Regents Canal
Sven and I were walking around Angel station on Friday when we looked in one of those street maps and realized that not far from there was the Regents Canal, which we decided to go take a closer look.
There are many canals in London, river waterways inside of a giant city such as London. It's amazing when we think that we are inside of such a huge city, but yet with so many little canals, with trees, cute boats and silence at the same time. It's like if the life outside stooped and we forget how busy it is out there. We found the place so charming and picturesque, that we decided to keep walking along the Canal until the next closer station, which would be King's Cross St. Pancras.
The Canal – from Angel until St. Pancras Station – was quite beautiful, with little forests, nice boats and flats on the riverbank. We were quite curious to know how much a person has to pay for a rent to live there. We kept on walking and saw the St. Pancras Station in the back, an elegant building, it looks kinda like a church to be honest (see picture). But the walk was so pleasant that we decided to keep on walking until Camden Town.
From St. Pancras until Camden Town, the Canal is not so beautiful anymore, cause there are a lot of abandoned buildings with broken windows, trash, plants but also some construction, because they have a project to make that area more developed.
Around Camden Town, the Canal is beautiful again, with buildings and people living in the area. Until this point, we had already walked 3,5 km and as the sun would set not so later on, we decided to stop for the day and do the rest of the walking some other time. The underground station was only two blocks away from that point. We then decided to come back on Sunday, if the weather was good, to keep walking on the other undiscovered part of the Canal until Paddington, cause a colleague told us that it was a really nice walk on that side too. The Regents Canal goes through Regents Park, Little Venice and there should be also some pretty good houses along.
Anyways, that is a good travel tip: when you come to London, take some time for a walk in any of the Canals spreaded around the city. This on the post is called Regents Canal, but there are others, as you can see in the Waterways map of London (see map).
If you would like more information about the Canals in London or in the UK, there are two interesting websites, it's worth to take a look:
Regents Canal around "Angel" Station.
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