Well I’m planning to work from home this morning, and make a stab at getting into town around lunchtime. But if you want to experience the full London going-to-work experience, then why not follow my bus route with me through the medium of cams?
- Outside my flat is a bus stop. I get the number six. It travels down towards Warwick Avenue, curls eastwards, and then turns right onto…
- Edgware Road – Oh joy. The wonders of the traffic jams on Edgware Road. I love you so much. Often people walk past the bus. Often people get off the bus to walk instead, and try and catch up with other buses further down the road. This stage normally doesn’t last long and the traffic really speeds up by the time I reach…
- Marble Arch – Turning eastwards again by the Tyburn – the Turkish restaurants of Edgware Road behind me, the wonders of Oxford Street in front of me – what more of a life could any man want. It’s just such a shame that I have to get off at…
- Regent’s Street – Damn you, Number Six. Why oh why must you turn right onto Regent’s Street – forcing me to get out of you at John Lewis and bounce onto any passing 98 or 8 bus. That is, of course, if there are any buses. Because otherwise I end up walking towards…
- Centrepoint – where Oxford Street turns into New Oxford Street. I used to work just around the corner from here at Time Out. Now I work slightly further up the road towards…
- Holborn tube – at Holborn tube, my bus would have gone slightly too far. But this is where I get my weird soya milk, wheatgerm, banana and spirulina smoothies each and every day… They’re a lurid green colour. Score.