Final

It's hard  to choose my favorite three walks. It would be much easier to choose my least favorite walks because I felt like with the exception of a few, most of them were really cool and really enjoyable. But because I have to pick a top three, I would say that the Central Parks walk, the Bankside and Southwark walk and the Westminster and St. James walk were my favorite. I liked these three the best because each one offered a different aspect of London and all three kind of come together to create a generalization of why I love London.

I really enjoyed the Central Parks walk because it was a really peaceful walk. I love London's parks and I liked going through a bunch of them all at once. It was interesting because I felt like each park was really unique, which is different from the parks I've experienced in America. The parks I've been to in America are pretty typical, general parks with some grass and a play set. Parks here in London are so varied. Some have a lot of trees, some have a pond, some have various monuments. I also just really like the atmosphere of all the parks. Though they are pretty social places sometimes, I also feel like they are someplace quite in the middle of the big city.

I like the Bankside and Southwark walk because I thought it had some absolutely gorgeous architecture along the way. That is another part of London that I really enjoy seeing. There is such a mix of different kinds of architecture all in one tiny area and I think it's really interesting to look at.  I loved the Southwark Cathedral; I think it was one of my favorite cathedrals I've seen here. I also loved the Tower Bridge. It's kind of a magical place in an inexplicable way. But those are just a few of the amazing places to see along the walk.

The Westminster and St. James walk was one of the more crowded walks so I didn't necessarily enjoy that aspect. But when I did that walk, that was when I started to realize how small London really is and how close together everything is. Riding the tube everywhere makes things seem so far away, when really its not far at all. The walk took us through some great places, and some touristy places I didn't even realize existed, so that was interesting. I also liked this walk because I thought that it kind of embodied the typical London that people think about when they think London. Even though we've been here for so long and I don't always consider myself a tourist, there really are some fabulous tourist places and this walk included some of my more favorite sites such as Westminster Abbey, which is a breathtaking building no matter how many times I've seen it.