Walking 15km from Gunnesbury to Rayners Lane

This walk was something of an experiment.

I wanted to walk in some new places in a linear route directed by Go Jaunty and my companion wanted to walk around 10 miles (yes, he still uses miles) and I quickly arrived at this route from the almost over-familiar Gunnesbury to the never-visited Rayners Lane.

I let Go Jaunty plan the route. I had used its route planner (it does lots of other things) before but only on short routes which had worked well but were not much of a test. I was using Go Jauntly because it has a "Green Route" option whereas Apple Maps, Google Maos, etc. just do shortest routes.

The new route was a quick success taking me along ia path I did not know about in a part of Ealing that I had walked through several times. 

And that set the tone for the next couple of hours which were a pleasing mix of quiet paths and lush parks. Everything was wonderful, until Greenford.

In Greenford we struggled to find a cafe and had to settle for a Costa in a shopping mall. After that we spent a lot of time following main roads because there were no paths and few parks (one!) in the area. At least we we were still doing steps and distance.  

Overall the walk was a big success and I enjoyed it a lot. More importantly, Go Jauntly passed this test with flying colours and it is now my first choice app for route planning.