Tell us about your weekend ride

Enough of this Super brilliyant Euro globe trotting stuff!!! Lets voyage closer to home, lets do a GReat ride. Hey.... lets go GRavesend to GReenwich. See what I did there?

Right, boring bit from Dirtfud to Gravesend, but then lets set sail across the mighty 'Lundun Ribber' aka The Thames by the Gravesend to Tilbury fairy...

...to forrin lands...where the Ethessex people live...

Then we crack on through Grays, Furrock then head past Purfleet Docks to the nice RSPB Cafe for nom noms at Rainham, great view of Dirtfud Bridge and the Thames from here...

...then we shuffle along the path up to Londons Famous London next to the Thames and start to see the pointy skyline of Londons Famous London skyline coming into view over the old concrete barges rammed into the shore at Rainham.

Then the path swerves off up through the marshes and up n over HS1 and out onto Rainham 'Village' (bwahahahaha) and then onwards to Dagenham. At Daggers Dock we go 'Lift-riding'...

...and then across the same HS1 rail track to get us back down to ground level...

...push button, lift cometh...

..and then freedom. We then cruise up through Dagger's Thamesview (bwahahahahahaha) estate and pick up the arse-end of CS3 and cruise up and through Becton then dive down to the Royal Docks, then out the other end onto the Isle O' Dogs (not actually made from real dogs) and again witness Londons Famous Pointy buildings but closer up...

Interestingly the view 180 degrees in the opposite direction shows Londons Famous London's famouser 'not pointy buildings'....

Crack on down through the Isle O' Dogs and enter the Greenwich foot tunnel and at the other end you pop out right in front of Londons Famous Londons Ye Olde Worlde HoverBoat (I think...)...

Geddaoutta there quick, s'full o tourists! Lets ride down the Thames Path south side taking in a fine view of Londons Famous Blunt building...

From there we whiz along the Thames path again until we're fortunate enough to see Londons Famous shiny racing beach huts under starters orders before they race off up the Thames for no reason whatsoever...

Another zoom along the Thames Path leads us to Londons famous Woolwich Fairy (not actually made from Fairies), ain't it bewtifull?

Still further along the the heavily congested cycle path...

...we come to the most ugly observation platform known to mankind on the outskirts of Thamesmead, Brutalist-I-Oop!

...which offers stunning views of.... a waste tip on the other side of the Thames. Nice!

Gadzooks....Worried you're entering Thamesmead and you're not 'tooled-up'? Fear not, help yourself to one of our handy jousting poles...

Further down the path we find a Victorian 'Pumping' Station...

I think this is where Victorian Dance music was made by hand by local craftsmen but sadly no matter how hard I strained my hearing I couldn't hear any Banging House Toonz from a bygone era.
Further down the path we find a stupidly steep bike path that just goes over a massive pipe.

But it does lead us into yummy picturesque Eariffffff...

Ain't she a looker.

As quickly as possible we cycle through Erith and Slade Green, with its verdant rolling grasslands...

...until we reach Dirtfud which for some reason thinks footpaths are bike paths too...

and so we come back to the Mmmmmmmmm25 which isn't yummy at all...

Bit crap really but easy peasy.

The end.

:)