To relax a bit the day before starting my new job and to explore my new neighborhood, Nat and I went for a great walk along the canal, which "starts" just round the corner from my place. Between Kings Cross and Angel the canal runs underground. We chose to walk westbound, strolling via Camden Town with its Market(where we sat down on a wall and had a coffee and some carrot cake that we had bought on the market earlier) to Regent's Park. The stroll along the canal is really beautiful. Some parts of it make you forget that you actually are in one of the largest (if not THE largest) city in Europe. It feels so calm and rural with the locks, a lot of green around and even some geese relaxing on the shores... It has got a very different feel from Canal St. Martin, but I immediately fell in love with it as well...I just like water, I guess :)
Towards the end of our walk (at Regent's Park), the canal runs along the London Zoo, and you can actually see some animals... birds and a really big "Wildschwein" (hmmm, I think the English word is hog...the French is "sanglier", of that I'm sure :). And just a couple of hundred meters later, this weird Chinese restaurant on a boat. Straaaaaaange!
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