A more local & shorter alternative to The Downs Challenge. Organised by Essex & Herts Group. Meet High Barnet Underground Station. Finish at Bank Underground Station. No dogs please
From Barnet high, through park to wood,
& on, by Finchley, where Spike sits, & stood.
Perhaps a coffee, at Inky’s ground?
Before, arts & crafts appear, & abound.
An artist, a Bond villain, a poet, & a preacher,
In Hampstead’s lanes & passages do feature.
Then down to lunch, with much to choose,
Towpath at Camden! will try not to lose.
Regents Canal, Copenhagen Street,
& Shepherdess walk, could be hard on the feet!
Now down from the rim, among towers high,
In a field of dissenters, Defoe, Bunyan, & Blake, do lie.
From a squalor’s market to a double Banksy,
But all this maybe a flight of fancy.
So, as to being perfectly frank!
We may not have strictly followed the Northern Line down to the Bank.
