{"id":19867,"date":"2021-01-20T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=19867"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:22:09","slug":"in-photos-a-midnight-bike-ride-through-central-london-in-lockdown-jan-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/in-photos-a-midnight-bike-ride-through-central-london-in-lockdown-jan-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-01.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/?s=park+photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walked around every single park<\/a> within a three mile radius of my Brixton home, l thought it was time to venture further afield, and\u00a0dust off my<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/662\/\"> Dahon folding bike<\/a> and do some night cycling as my daily lockdown exercise.<\/p>\n<p>My first trip saw me heading off for a quick ten\u00a0 mile midnight ride into the centre of London and back, via London Bridge, Blackfriars,\u00a0 Waterloo and Vauxhall, pausing briefly to grab a few\u00a0photos from my journey:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-02.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behold! The <del>rarely<\/del> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-rarely-spinning-turbines-of-the-strata-tower-south-london\/\">never spinning turbines of the Strata Tower<\/a> by the Elephant &amp; Castle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-03.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crossing London Bridge.\u00a0 I barely saw any traffic all night, so it was wonderfully quiet.<\/p>\n<p>London is beautiful at night, and as I crossed the river, I could hear the midnight bells of a nearby church.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-04.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My <em>wheels o&#8217;steel<\/em> on Southwark bridge, with the illuminated Shard behind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-05.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-06.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Symphony in blue. Blackfriars bridge with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/photos-of-london-blackfriars-railway-bridge-the-worlds-largest-solar-powered-bridge\/\">solar-powered station<\/a> that straddles both sides of the Thames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-07.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oxo tower in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-08.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-09.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hungerford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bike-ride-london-midnight-10.jpg\" alt=\"In photos: a midnight bike ride through central London in lockdown, Jan 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another look at the splendid<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-incredible-tate-britain-light-installation-celebrating-diwali-in-photos\/\"> Tate Britain light installation celebrating Diwali<\/a>.\u00a0 The place was completely deserted.<\/p>\n<h4>Join in with the forum chat<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/central-london-photos-parks-buildings-street-scenes-and-london-life.329057\/page-2#post-16017209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central London photos \u2013 parks, buildings, street scenes and London life<\/a>\u00a0(over 100 posts)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve walked around every single park within a three mile radius of my Brixton home, l thought it was time to venture further afield, and\u00a0dust off my Dahon folding &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,456,17,193],"tags":[501,62,2545,10,359,2233,18,1195,809,433,332],"class_list":["post-19867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-blackfriars","tag-cycling","tag-dahon","tag-london","tag-london-bridge","tag-night-photography","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-street-photography","tag-vauxhall","tag-waterloo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bike-ride-london-midnight-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-5ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19873,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions\/19873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}