108 | 241 | 309 - London buses

I've been reading the Route1to499 bus blog for some months now. Ben - who writes it - is trying to travel on all London's bus routes. He'll be doing this until 2012.


The idea tickled me, so I asked Ben to accompany him on some trips. So today, me and he went on three routes (108, 241, 309) from the grimy / glittering heights of Lewisham to buzzy-with-anticipation Stratford, from there to down at heel Canning Town, and finally from there through the residential heart of Tower Hamlets to Bethnal Green.

Some highlight sights were:

• the Las Vegas-esque sign outside Lewisham library
• a street called The Squirrels
• the church of St Margaret's, Lee (I like the punctuation)
• the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music (built in 1896)
• the zigzagging Blackwall Tunnel
  
• planes landing at London City Airport

Overall, it was an interesting trip, and really made me realise how amazing London's buses are. There was nothing outstanding about these three routes: they were ordinary, work-a-day trips. But the very fact that they exist is brilliant.