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@El_Diablo
I've done the other way on- so to speak! I got on the tow path at Aldbury and ended up at Ricky Aquadrone- nice liddle caf in there now.
Riding into London could be interesting, but its maintaining the interest factor getting back home again without doing the return leg on the same route inwards ie a circular route.
I know there's canal's round Old Street, and where there's a canal there's a tow path.
BTW my short route is from Park Lane down to Coy Carp and off road through the lakes to the Old Uxbridge Road and keep on there until hop onto the main road, then off to the left at Denham Green into the Phygtles into Denham then trundle round to the Swan & Bottle in Ux and hop on the tow path there, back up the tow path 'til after the caf, then through to the Marina and then onto the road doing a left and then first right and back on the tow path to Park Lane, or cut off at Black Jack's and come up the f-ing great hill to the restaurant. Takes an hour at most.
Of course if the caf is open its got lots of cakes and things............
BTW again- the junk yard at Black Jack's is being cleared and there's a pile of old bikes of various vintages down there, as well as an old JCB/Commer lorry/etc/etc/etc, it was fascinating junk- included a canal weeding amphibious craft- gone now. I think the guy who was there has moved on
All in all, a very unusual area.......