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New River

Mon Jun 23 15:17:25 BST 2008

I've just got back from a two-day walk along the New River, which runs from Hertfordshire into North London and carries around eight percent of London's water supply into the city. It flows at quite a clip, as you could imagine.

Highlights of the walk probably include:

• Some good wildlife: a few big fat carp, ducks, huge swans, a cormorant, and a dead fox.
• Lovely parks and street-side river walking in Enfield.
• Perry over ice somewhere around Hornsey.
• Turkish coffee.

The award for biggest downside of the trip would have to go to the designers of the Thames Water signs dotting the path every mile or so, all of which begin with the smug phrase: The New River is neither new nor a river. Good work, eh?