Something For The Weekend: BECKY ON: the real Eastenders

Not enough people visit Mile End. They're all too busy loading themselves up with cream teas and Prada shoppings bags along the Kings Road, or gathering en masse around a mime, painted silver and pointlessly perching on a podium in Covent Garden... or cricking their necks looking up at the lights in Picadilly Circus with a thousand other tourists. WHICH IS LAME. The truth about London can only really be learned by staring down at the 'ghettos' from a double decker bus in Mile End. Don't believe me? I kid you not peeps. Just check out these fabulous EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS ...

Exhibit 1: note the amicable way in which two friends walk casually past a man on a bike, having strolled peacefully through the park in order to cross the road. Such a beautiful sight. I love the angle of this shot,.. I know, I know,.... amazing. And no muggings in sight.

Exhibit 2 is also interesting, demonstrating life outside a very much open Lidl store - the number one Bow choice for value shopping. Note how the child in front stretches out his arms in glee, no doubt enchanted by the glorious surroundings in which is lucky enough to be growing, from child to adult. What joys.

Exhibit 3 provides a fascinating insight as to the hatted man crossing street theory. Can he really see the traffic when his face is half consumed by his fashionable headwear? Whatever the case, he makes a relatively smooth crossing whilst staring down at his matching trainers. Well done.

Exhibit 4 highlights yet another road crossing, this time by a punk haired gambling man, heading straight for the betting shop. I love the way his trousers flap in that springtime Bow breeze.

Next time you're short on things to do at the weekend,.. I can highly recommend this Mile End bus tour. Take the 277 from Grove Road towards Canary Wharf.

Or call me for more information.

Comments

COMING SOON: The Longsight, Manchester, night-time tour! Wander along the streets and hassle a few real-life gangs! Laugh out loud when they hold a serious-sized gun to your head and ask you what the hell you're doing there!*

*NB: your wallet and mobile phone may be at risk, as may the sanctity of your brain cavity from invading lead.

Posted by: Kenny | 18/04/2006 at 01:00 PM

I would also highly recommend taking a trip southside. Hop onto the 159 from oxford circus and you can be transported to the glorious St Reatham in no time (or streatham to the uninitiated). Not only do we have a lidl's and capped youths hanging the streets but we also have a bus station, a resident 7ft transvesite and a shop which sells pimp beds... alas there aren't a lot of punk haired gambling men crossing the road but then you can't have it all.

Posted by: Claire | 20/04/2006 at 12:54 PM