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Approached with curiosity and openness, a night walk can be just as compelling as a TV box set before bed, and more nourishing than your smartphone’s news feed. Night walks are an excellent tonic for the stress and busyness of London, and a break from our increasingly digital lives. Few people are able to walk home from their jobs, and London at night is infinitely more beautiful than a view of someone’s armpit on the Tube. In its own way, the commute was actually quite a privilege. A London of sleeping tower blocks, peaceful parks, street lamps twinkling in the night. Walking from Shoreditch to Upper Clapton, I discovered a different side to my new city, a quieter side. So, although it took almost an hour, I often walked home to unwind from the buzz of London’s nightlife – to decompress, to breathe.
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Sober, the night bus felt like a continuation of the night shift, a busman’s holiday full of late night drinkers and cans of lager. The noise left my veins tingling, my head buzzing for hours afterwards.
When I first moved to London, I worked as a bartender in Shoreditch, usually until 1 or 3am. ( koelner) ‘Night walks are an excellent break from our increasingly digital lives’ If I did go for a walk at night and was attacked, I fear the reaction from others would be that I shouldn’t have been walking alone in the first place.
I would love to go running at night, but as a woman I’d never run the risk of going for a walk or run alone at night because I’ve just been always taught to believe I must always be vigilant and not put myself in danger. I still love this city though, and walking through it at night is one of my favourite pastimes – especially in winter when the streets are so very quiet. Walking in the daytime here can be a nightmare. It’s very peaceful, and Athens is a very safe city. There is a dirt track between the two agoras which hardly anyone uses at night. Especially around the Acropolis, through Plaka and Thissio. I walk miles in Athens at night and love it. ( SuperbMeteor) ‘Walking through Athens at night is very peaceful’ I’ve enjoyed it most in places which are crowded during the day Venice, for example, is magical before dawn. It’s a wonderful sensation, going out in the dark, and having the city gradually reveal itself. ( montesdeoca) ‘The city gradually reveals itself at night’ These walks stay with me today – probably some of my happiest times ever. I lived off Ladbroke Grove and these walks would usually take me through the squares of Bayswater or Holland Park – the trees luminescent in the streetlights or along the edge of Hyde Park with the dew starting to fall. These were often out of necessity as late night transport was pretty much non-existent at the time, and I was young and too impoverished to pay for a taxi or minicab. I can remember some magical late night London walks home from parties in the mid-1970s – a time of hot summers and low rainfall. (Anonymous) ‘Those magical walks home were some of my happiest times’ I came to think of the city after midnight as “night city” with its own culture and realities. At night the real city is laid bare, seemingly forgotten and empty, even while occupying the same physical space of the daytime city. The city was so crowded during the day I could not enjoy it, I had no sense of presence.
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