A quick trip to Fortnum & Mason

My usual walking friend wanted to buy some salmon from Fortum & Mason so it was an easy decision to walk there on our next longish walk.

As always the first, and biggest decision was where to cross The Thames and we went for Putney Bridge as that was the most direct route.

I thought about trying to find a slightly different route there but there were no sensible alternatives so we took the route we always do.

We also had a break where we always do, at Putney Pantry just to the south of the bridge. The coffee and blueberry tart were most welcome!

There was more room for exploration on the other side of the bridge, and that is what we did. Out usual route, taken several times is along Kings Road but this time we tried to find a quieter away between that road and Fulham Road.

And that plan worked pretty well too. The route we took this time is the blue line and the purple lines are routes taken previously as recorded on CityStrides, Incidentally, the cluster of lines in the middle is around Finborough Theatre, a regular haunt.

Walking along new roads worked very well (apart, from possibly the bit where we went through the industrial part of a hospital) and we saw many new interesting things, notably houses we could not possibly afford and parks we could not possibly afford to live near. There was also a large number of blue plaques, mostly of people I had never heard of, especially in Eton Square.

The last part was the hardest with Piccadilly thick with tourists and Christmas shoppers and Fortum & Mason even busier. Luckily we were only buying one thing, my friend knew where to find it and the queue fot the till was not stupidly long so we were out agin in about ten minutes.

Shopping done and 21km covered in four hours; that is what I call a good morning's work.