T is for Thames #AtoZChallenge
I’m doing the A to Z Challenge in April, using the theme of the UK & Ireland. As I mentioned in my post on the Hungerford Bridge, I love being in a city with a prominent river. In London, that’s the Thames, beginning with the letter ‘T’.
The best way to experience a river, of course, is by boat. We took that opportunity on the day that we visited Greenwich.
View of the Westminster Bridge from inside our tour boat.
Walking along the Thames is a treat, too. Both sides of the river, in the area of London that tourists visit, have been developed to invite walking. I think I could enjoy a trip to London even if I never did anything but walk along the Thames with a camera.
A “dolphin lamp” and the London Eye
My favorite books that feature the Thames:
- London by Edward Rutherfurd
- A Dark and Twisted Tide, the fourth book in the Lacey Flint series by Sharon Bolton. In that book, policewoman Lacey Flint spends her time in and around the Thames, solving a mystery with international implications.
Are there other books that prominently feature the Thames?
Edward Rutherfurd is a wonderful author. I haven’t read London yet but have read Sarum as well as his Princes of Ireland series.
Those are lovely images on the Thames, both quite stunning in their differing ways. I haven’t been to London since 2011 when I took a lovely day walking from Tate Britain to the Southbank Centre and along the Thames toward the Tate Modern. I’ll definitely have to start a bucket list and add a boat trip along the Thames to it – and then I’ll have to work a way of guaranteeing the weather if i hope to get snapshots anywhere near as nice as yours
I can’t help you with an answer to the book question but it is an interesting question…
never been there but it features so much in history and in shows -is lacey flint the character that lives on the house boat on the river.? I love reading about that world and people that live on the river and how the locks open and lower and raise and off they go … the river is a terrific character in its own right.and the thames has such a story to tell.