Above Ground on the London Underground: Day 12 Feeling Peckish at Peckham Rye
I’m taking a virtual walking tour ‘above ground’ on the London Underground. Using my Tube guide and my fitbit® device, my goal is to walk at least 10,000 steps a day roughly following along the Underground route, reporting back here on Fridays with my findings. This is Day 12. I ’ m still in Peckham in southeast London, gazing up at the house on Howden Street where my great-grandmother sat and waited for her husband and two sons to come home from World War I. Her husband never did. This old family history is all new to me and the sight of the house fills me with yearning. I ’m thinking about going on a real trip to London and across the channel to France to see my where my great-grandfather is buried. The Guard’s Cemetery at Lesboeufs is just an hour or so north of Paris; a week in the City of Lights sounds about right. My husband actually went so far as to check out airfares but we haven ’ t progressed much beyond asking ourselves if...