My 12 days of Christmas

As expected we spent a good part of the day in Victoria Park. Breakfast was at The Pavilion cafe, which was pretty awesome and set us all up, including a 11-week old puppy and a 3-year old human, for a gigantic walk around the park.

Victoria Park covers 212 acres of East London neighbouring Bethnal Green, Bow and Hackney. It is bounded on two sides by canals. The Regent’s Canal lies to the west, whilst the Hertford Union Canal runs along the Southern edge of the park.

Vicky Park is home to two football clubs, an Athletics Club, the world’s oldest model boat club, a cricket league played on three all-weather pitches, a bowling green, boating and a bathing pond (!). It has inviting pubs all around it’s circumference plus is host to a growing number of summer music festivals and the Olympic Park is frequently visible less than a mile away in the distance.

We only scratched the surface of it around parts of Victoria Park Village and Old Ford Road in the south-west corner but we covered enough ground for some serious afternoon naps and a well earned early dinner in The Approach Tavern.