London South Bank of the Thames Walking Tour

By -
What to do on a mid-week day off when it's 34 degrees in the city? Well, go for a little walk of course.

This short (2.3km) walk on London’s South Bank is a free and easy way to see some of the major tourist attractions whilst strolling along the lovely Thames River. So if you're strapped for cash but keen to see the city sights, this is definitely one I'd recommend.

View of Tower Bridge, London

Check out our London South Bank of the Thames Walking Tour video on our Skint Adventure YouTube channel. The main attractions you'll get to see on this route are:
  • Tower of London
  • Tower Bridge
  • City Hall
  • HMS Belfast
  • Borough Market
  • Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 
  • Tate Modern 


View of the Tower of London

We used the AllTrails app for this walk, which mostly worked well, but the phone and web synchronisation is a little patchy with routes and trails saved on the web version not syncing to your app account. The maps could be a bit better and the record function, which is meant to track your walk and provides some handy stats (calories burnt, bearing, current elevation, elevation gain, battery level, GPS accuracy) was quite unreliable and in the end, only recorded about half of our walk.


We'll be testing out some more walking apps on our future walks to compare them all and see which one works best for our needs.


🎞Stay up to date on all our travel adventures here on the blog by hitting subscribe and make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video walks.




A view of the River Thames with London Skyscrapers in the background.

 Walking along Tower BridgeThe Clink Prison Museum

Mural entitled 'View of Old London Bridge at Night Circa 15th C' on the riverside just outside Hay's Galleria

Dragon Boundary Mark at London Bridge marks the boundaries of the City of LondonKaif walking down some stairs and alleyways near Borough

Sights from outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre which is currently closed to theatre goers.

A quick shot of us (Kaif and Charné) outside the Tower of London

👉 Subscribe to Skint Adventure on YouTube to see more video walks.



Location: River Thames, United Kingdom

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Wandering Around

By -
Image
After finally getting some rest we managed to drag ourselves out of the hotel and have a walk around the area. We didn't plan anything for the first day. Instead we just walked around and headed in directions that looked interesting. The first thing that struck me was how densely packed the buildings are. Hong Kong is a vertical city covered in towering buildings both old and new. There was a market which had cool looking fishmongers and butchers. Although I couldn't resist going into the bookmakers and snapping a picture of a large group of gamblers eagerly watching a horse race. Near to Causeway Bay we stumbled across a massive parade of Muslim women who were celebrating the beginning of Ramadan. It definitely had a carnival atmosphere. After that, we managed to jump onto a the Star Ferry which is a very frequent (and cheap) ride to get off Hong Kong island and onto Kowloon. We managed to get to Kowloon Park which is very different to a European park...
Read more

Hong Kong

By -
Image
We're off to Hong Kong for a few days! The last time I was there was exactly 10 years ago (it'll be the first time for Charné though). I personally am looking forward to seeing how it's changed in that time. The character of a city is constantly changing, evolving as it's citizens move on to pastures new; whilst making way for new arrivals. I've seen London evolve in the past decade, and I suspect Hong Kong has too. Unlike the South Africa road trip, we're not going to have to worry too much about the technical challenges of blogging on the road. So no gear guide this time. See you on the other side!
Read more

Cupcake Heaven

By -
Image
Today we decided to wander out in the rain and explore Knysna town centre, which as it turns out is only a 5min drive from where we are staying. Score! Since it wasn't really beach weather, we decided to check out the local attractions instead. Knysna central has a bit of a weird setup with a couple of local malls within walking distance of each other and mostly outdoors.  Needless to say that the outdoorsy malls left us quite wet and longing for a nice warm cuppa. While wondering around Knysna mall we came across a quaint little store called Dinky Cakes. This place epitomizes cupcake heaven and I fell head over heel in love. Aside from the delicious cupcakes, they also sell a variety of niceties and tasty treats, such as milkshakes, date balls, cute pink stuff, coffees, sandwiches and my personal weakness, Coconut Ice. With such a wide variety of cupcakes to choose from, Kaif and I found it really difficult to decide on just one cupcake each, some of the flavors included: KitKat, ...
Read more