Portals
Places you can open where you stand
A portal is a short story a guide tells you in the place itself. Three or four stops in walking order, one thing to look for at each, spoken aloud, with a question at every stop that your own eyes answer.
Bloomfield Garden
A small community garden by the canal, looked after by a local school and Plant Environment.
A guide walks it with you, about 10 minutes.
Camley Street Natural Park
A narrow strip of reedbed, pond and young woodland between the canal and the railway at King's Cross.
A guide walks it with you, about 20 minutes.
Kensington Gardens
A royal park with a formal round pond and a long narrow lake curving north east through old trees.
A guide walks it with you, about 45 minutes.
Little Venice
Where two canals meet in a wide pool by Warwick Avenue, with a towpath running north east from it.
A guide walks it with you, about 20 minutes.
Waterlow Park
A steep hillside park in Highgate with three spring-fed ponds stepped down the slope and some very old trees.
A guide walks it with you, about 25 minutes.