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So I came up over Blackfriars, up past the Bank, then my Garmin tried to route me through the back of Liverpool Street station and to make various impossible right turns (I found out later it was set to pedestrian mode).
Ended up somewhere in Hackney full of warehouses called things like 'Blood and Fire Ministries', but the roads weren't bad for cycling. As I came into the Leyton area it got much worse, there was Ruckholt Road, which seemed expressly designed to put cyclists at risk - cars parked all the way along, a door-sized 'cycle lane' then a lane for traffic doing 30mph or so (I can't cycle that fast), and then after the road got wider but the cars just drive faster and closer
Went cycling towards Newbury Park along the Southend Road/A12 as well. Not fun, drivers around here seem to hate cyclists, assume they are out to kill you and it will be ok. Decided to cycle back on the shared use pavement thing: that was shit, lots of tactile paving slabs, risk of being run over at every side road as cars come turning off the dual carriageway at speed, so cycled on the dual carriageway instead.
Still not sure which route back to Waterloo.