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basicallydan | 3 years ago

The author lost me when they took a train from Moorgate to Barbican. Clearly doesn’t count as walking underground!

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flakyfilibuster|3 years ago

watch me drive over the atlantic ocean while doing donuts on this ship...

mafro|3 years ago

It was a fun read for someone who used to live in London.

> It's taken 20 minutes to get here via seven escalators, two staircases, one ambulatory train ride and one lift. You may quibble that the train ride was a cheat and that a couple of bits weren't technically below ground, but you can't argue with the extraordinariness of such a long artificial subterranean connection.

boudin|3 years ago

Since it's a train in which you can walk from the last to the first carriage, he counted it as walking by walking the train while the train was going between Moorgate and Barbican. I guess technically it is walking and being underground.

carnitine|3 years ago

I can walk from Paddington to Canary Wharf underground if I’m allowed to pace up and down the train.

simonh|3 years ago

Apparently that’s ok, but using a lift is resorting to mechanical means. Riiiight.