London's greatest walk - part 3.

All these three walks are good in their own right, and each is different. This final part goes from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington High Street. We start at Hyde Park Corner Underground (Piccadilly Line Zone 1) and look at the Wellington Arch. This is situated in the middle of one of London's busiest roundabouts, where you can also see memorials to those who lost their lives from the Australian and New Zealand forces in both world wars, and the memorial to the Royal Artillery Regiment.

Leaving the noise of the traffic behind, we enter the park and walk beside Rotten Row and the rose gardens, after admiring a naughty statue erected by Victorian ladies and a new gate in memory of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

We then walk beside the Serpentine, where I am mobbed by birds. Next comes the Lido where every day of the year hardy folk swim in the lake. beyond is the new Diana fountain and the Serpentine Gallery. We then glimpse the Albert Memorial, the Royal Albert Hall and the Round Pond before arriving at Kensington Palace, previously home of Princess Diana of Wales.

Finally we pass behind St Mary Abbots church and finish our walk at Kensington High Street Underground (District and Circle Lines - Zone 1)

So there we have it. Three wonderful walks. A combined length of 5.75 miles. Great variety with lots to see throughout its length. Most of the walks are away from the traffic. I hope you enjoyed London's Greatest Walk - in my humble opinion, of course.

London's greatest walk - part 2.

We start near Big Ben, leaving Westminster Underground (Jubilee, Circle and District lines - zone 1) via exit 4. As we look towards Parliament Square, we hear Big Ben strike 11 o'clock on a bright, sunny but cold day. Our walk starts at the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square and proceeds down Whitehall towards the Cenotaph. From here you can go a little further and see Downing Street.

After going down between the Foreign Office and the Treasury, we pass the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum and into St James's Park. Then up Cockpit steps into a little known Queen Anne street, where almost every house is connected with politicians in the past, such as Lord Palmerston and Viscount Grey.

Back then into St James's and across the water where we get a fine view of Buckingham Palace to the West and the London Eye to the East, framing government buildings like a giant halo.

We then pass St James's Palace and Clarence House before entering Green Park. Here we see the memorial to the Canadian dead from the world wars, and then a new gate opened in 2002 and dedicated to those who lost their lives fighting in both world wars from the Indian sub-continent, Nepal, and the Caribbean.

We end at Hyde Park Corner, crossing to the Wellington Arch and Hyde Park Corner Underground (Piccadilly Line zone 1) on what must be one of the only horse-crossings to be found anywhere in the world.

London's greatest walk - part 1.

This is the first of three walks, each of about an hour. The first walk starts at London Bridge Underground, zone 1, on the Northern and Jubilee Lines. Exit the station at the Tooley Street - Duke Street Hill exit. Cross the road by the pedestrian crossing to the art deco St Olaf's House and turn left towards Southwark Cathedral. The Southwark web site has a great deal of information about the building and its association with Shakespeare. We pause in the cathedral for a few minutes before joining the River Thames walkway past Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

The walk continues along the south bank past Bankside Gallery, Tate Modern, Doggett's Coat and Badge pub and several others with historical associations, to the South Bank arts centre - the Royal National Theatre, National Film Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward Gallery and the Royal Festival Hall.

We get a good view of St Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge - known as the Wobbly Bridge by Londoners because of the 'lozenge-style oscillation' which forced its closure for damping soon after it was built. We go under several other landmark bridges and hear about their origins. We see Blackfriars, King's College London, the Inns of Court especially Middle and Inner Temples with the Temple Church and its link with Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

Then there is Somerset House, Savoy Hotel, Ministry of Defence and the Victoria Embankment.

The walk continues past County Hall and the London Eye to Westminster Bridge, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Scotland Yard.

This part of the walk ends at Westminster Underground station on the Jubilee Line - a station of truly cathedral proportions, which is worth a visit in its own right.

The weather is still cold and windy here in London. Too windy for a long walk, but bright and sunny. When the wind drops, I shall record my favourite walk - the best walk in London.

If you have limited time, or if you do nothing else during your visit, take this walk. It is 5.75 miles, from Kensington to Southwark or London Bridge, via Kensington Palace, Hyde Park, Green Park, St James's, Westminster and the South Bank.

In the meantime, following up on last week's visitor's guide to getting around London by public transport, here's a walk Underground.

We travel on the London Underground along the Central Line from Notting Hill Gate to Bond Street.

We change at Bond Street onto the Jubilee Line, London's newest, with its amazing award-winning architecture and comfortable trains.

See the live departure boards for the Jubilee Line.

We alight at London Bridge near Southwark Cathedral and the River Thames.