Little Venice is about a square mile within the Maida Vale district, one of the more exclusive residential districts in central London and also the district in which our apartment is located. The Grand Union Canal opened in 1820, the area was home to artists, writers and prostitutes. Today, Little Venice is a bit more genteel. It is now comprised of tree-lined streets and beautiful 17th century white stucco homes plus shops and easy access to Oxford Street, the West End, Paddington Station and even Heathrow Airport making it an oasis on near London’s canals and a much coveted fashionable and expensive address.
It is a nice sunny warm 57 degree day. Great day for a walk. I can not believe we now think 60 degrees is warm.
Stopped at Café Laville located on a bridge above the canal. Edward is watching a canal barge go under the restaurant down the canal.
There is a tow path along the canal to Paddington Rail Station. The tow path remains from the era in which the barges were pulled by mules before the barges became self propelled. We found this map of Little Venice showing restaurants, water taxi locations and water tour locations.
People live in all these canal boats most of which no longer move. The boats are 40 to 80 years old.
This is a Puppet Theater canal boat.
This one is a café near a turning basin area.
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