I just got back from one of my walks. It was quite a lengthy one today: I followed my nose to Lewisham, caught the dlr up to Canary wharf, then rode the jubilee line one stop to North greenwich and caught the bus home. I am always stuck by the variety of landscapes there are in London – no two areas look alike. There is the village atmosphere of Charlton; the market town feel of Woolwich, so reminiscent of the Northern towns of my childhood. There is the wide open space of blackheath, and the ornate refinement of greenwich park. There’s Canary Wharf, london’s allusion to New York. There are the heady pleasure centres of the O2 Arena and Stratford, so built up and bright. All these varied landscapes in such a small space; I have just named a few – those i know in the east of the city – but I get the impression that this variation extends across the city, so that there will always be more to see, more areas to explore, the area around Richmond, Kew, and the southwest, for example. I realise this could be said of any city, but I, personally, have never known such a varied, vibrant space, and it’s all waiting for me to go out and explore.