From Hammersmith to Chiswick - Life is a Mall

They call it a "Mall", those English do.

They pronounce it "Mell".

I can't tell you why.

But if you want to get away from the crowds

and find out how life was like "back then"

or you just want to take a different step back

a step away - from the hustle and the hurry -

what they call a "breather".....

This could be the place for you.  (The Hammersmith Mall to the Chiswick Mall along the Thames.)

There's a whiff of Dickens, or Thackeray.

It's the waterway of Kings - Henry the VIII took this route to Hampton Court

The annual Oxford Cambridge Boat Race happens here.  Have you noticed, plenty of places to wet your whistle?  On a cold rainy race day, or better, when the sun shines and you should otherwise be

on a faraway vacation or planning (another?) one.  Like these folk are thinking of, apparently.

(But you're not.) You're wetting your whistle.  Or, just toodling down a narrow lane.

Getting distracted by other peoples' lives

and trying to find your way back.......

maybe with a few souvenirs

(Could your personal barrel of beer use a little jacket to keep it at a proper temperature?  And why not?)

er, I was saying - trying to find your way back........to...............I mean.........

I mean, the RIVER.  THAMES.  Ah yes.  Refreshment.