Help needed with the route... I'm being shipped out to Zurich early tomorrow morning on very late notice, and route planning was going to be tomorrow and Tuesday (as I have exams on Wednesday and Thursday evenings).
Since I'm now in the wrong city for the planning... help please!
This is what I currently had down:
Cutty Sark (Start Point)
> Foot tunnel to get North of the river, follow Westferry Road to ride parallel to the Thames Westwards to the Limehouse Link. Not sure on doing the Limehouse link with such numbers, so go North slightly and West to pick up Limehouse Causeway and Narrow Street. Very short bit on the Highway before...
King Edward Memorial Park (is now the site where Gun Powder Dock used to be, where the East India Company held their fleet of policing ships)
> South West down Wapping Wall and Wapping High St
Tower of London, where the pirates were held prior to execution
> Over Tower Bridge and then West along Tooley Street to get to London Bridge
The Golden Hinde at Pickfords Wharf
> West somehow to Blackfriars Bridge and over the bridge as under that point is where the River Fleet used to be where multiple drop-off points used to be. West along the Embankment and North on Arundel St to get to The Strand
Somerset House on the Strand because it was the location of the Treaty of London which ended the Spanish / English war in which the Spanish Armada was lost. As a tax office it also represents the authority that ultimately governed taxation of the ports (but not really until the very end of the age of pirates).
> Who knows what happens here, possibly Trafalgar Square and Admiralty Arch for their naval connections.
Help needed with the route... I'm being shipped out to Zurich early tomorrow morning on very late notice, and route planning was going to be tomorrow and Tuesday (as I have exams on Wednesday and Thursday evenings).
Since I'm now in the wrong city for the planning... help please!
This is what I currently had down:
> Foot tunnel to get North of the river, follow Westferry Road to ride parallel to the Thames Westwards to the Limehouse Link. Not sure on doing the Limehouse link with such numbers, so go North slightly and West to pick up Limehouse Causeway and Narrow Street. Very short bit on the Highway before...
> South West down Wapping Wall and Wapping High St
> Weave back to Wapping Lane and go North
> Follow canal West and South to Vaughan Way, weave South West to the river and follow the Thames to St Katherines Dock
> Over Tower Bridge and then West along Tooley Street to get to London Bridge
> West somehow to Blackfriars Bridge and over the bridge as under that point is where the River Fleet used to be where multiple drop-off points used to be. West along the Embankment and North on Arundel St to get to The Strand
> Who knows what happens here, possibly Trafalgar Square and Admiralty Arch for their naval connections.
As a vague route this currently looks like this:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/LFGSS-Pirate-Ride-draft
Which is only 8.4 miles... so needs extending a little... I was thinking of rum stops towards the end ;)