Gently down the stream

By Miranda1008

Don't slip..

..on that banana skin (which is included as you have to realise that the shore here is not posh, however much people have paid for the view!)

Actually, getting down here the steps were very old and slippy, so you might have laughed seeing me inch my way down.  I'm scared of stairs like that.

This of course is the next of my Thames pictures.  Once again I chose a glorious day to go to London on.  It was the only day this week I could go, but it breaks my ideas about this project to pieces.  The Thames for me is always grey and brown and that's what I thought I'd be blipping.  Instead it's been ridiculously blue skies most of the way so far.

So today I got the tube from Waterloo to Tower Hill and walked east (and downstream) along the north bank.  I was absolutely knocked out by it.  Somewhere I've never been but wonderful in all sorts of totally unexpected ways.  I think I got as far as Wapping Wall. 

My best guess where this was taken was that I accessed the shore from New Crane Stairs, though it might only have been Wapping Dock Stairs.  The church whose spire you can see dead centre here is - I'm pretty sure - St Anne's Limehouse, built by Nicholas Hawksmoor.  And clipping the image on the right is the beginning of Canary Wharf.  If anyone knows better, please tell me!

So that's me.  I think I'll be commenting in the morning as it's choir tonight, so sorry.  And have a wonderful evening  xx

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