Visiting London soon or bored of your current capital cycling routes? Here’s 6 of the most unusual, unexpected and unique places to cycle to in London – from ruined abbeys to wild animals!
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If you’re headed for a cycling trip to London anytime soon or you ride here often and you’re just looking for a change of scenery here’s a load of unique unusual and unexpected cycling destinations in the capital underneath the river temps you’re probably well aware of the range of London Bridges you can cycle
Across to get to the other side of the river but did you know you can also cycle underneath the temps technically the only legal place you’re allowed to do this is alongside drivers in the dark and Grim Rive tunnel but there are also foot tunnels in Grenich and woit to the
East of the city where when it’s quiet and you’re not putting anyone at risk I see no issue with carefully cycling through just Beware of the lifts which are often out of service meaning you have to carry your bike up a hell of a lot of Stairs that was fast alongside planes landing and taken off from City Airport you could cycle to the far outskirts of London to watch planes land at Heathrow Airport that’s a long way away and down some pretty major roads an easier and much more pleasant option would be ambling down the river towards
The Exel Arena from where you can watch planes taken off and landing at City Airport located on the Royal docks there’s a few different places for a good view and you can even ride parallel to the runway just check the takeoff times first they’re not as regular as the more major [Applause]
Airports over the famous Beatles zebra Crossing at Abby Road in 1969 The Beatles recorded the album Abby Road and realizing they didn’t have an album cover sorted yet decided to pop outside the famous recording studio of the same name for a quick and easy photo of the four using a
Zebra Crossing to cross the road the zebra Crossing is still there to this day cycle to Northwest London to try it for yourself but but whereare the cues of tourists who have had the very same idea I feel no different now I’ve walked across it alongside giraffes at Regent
Park Regent Park is a well-known destination for London cyclists where thousands ride laps around the two ring roads each week what you might not expect to see riding around this famous London Park Park located just outside Central London is a tower of giraffes clearly visible from the road in their
Closure in London Zoo if you want to surprise your straa followers with a cheeky selfie with a giraffe now you know where to head if you had giraffes would you call them Maggie and Molly no Maggie is my mom’s name that’d be weird she have a particularly long
Neck average for a giraffe or a human through the Earth’s center at the grenic meridian line cycle to the Royal Observatory Greenwich in southeast London and straddled the Earth eastern and western hemisphere on the prime meridian line home of Greenwich meantime whilst you’re there bag yourself what I
Consider to be the best view of London from Greenwich Park over to Canary Warf 10 out of 10 I think so grenage to a ruined 900 yearold Abby Head East down the south side of the river temps past the impressive temps barrier through the brutalist housing estate tsme where Clockwork
Orange was filmed and eventually you’ll find the ruins of Lesnar’s Abbey a 12th century grade two listed Abbey it’s also accessible from the nearby ABY wood train station if you want to cut a bit of the journey and the ruins are situated next to Woods that are a famous
Site for uncovering fossilized sharks teeth all here [Applause] now there we go that’s it just a couple of tips on places you might want to cycle two on your next London bike ride if you want to watch me and a few friends ride into City Airport via the
Temps barrier along the river temps check out this video here and subscribe to the channel for more of the same cheers come on Bessie let’s go m
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2:22 if you're there and someone asks directions for a green witch, don't be rude, they're probably not native english speakers 🙄😇😅
Lovely stuff Jake