Going out shortly, to a posh fish and chip restaurant in Marylebone, so time is short (I'm surprised I've held out this long). The plan, which I'm sure we'll regret, is to get off the Tube two stops early at Regent's Park, and go for a walk through the park itself, in order to completely cancel out the payload of greasy fish we will consume shortly afterwards. I realised by consulting my beloved A-Z that even though it's two Tube stops, it's only about fifteen minutes walk (though you do have to change at Waterloo). I then discovered, in an odd if slightly dull coincidence, the following:
There are 109 journeys between Tube stations that are quicker to walk.
That's how the BBC put it, anyway - I'm not sure it's gramatically correct, but you get the idea. The shortest distance between Tube stations is between Leicester Square and Covent Garden, on the Piccadilly Line, where it is in fact actually quicker to moonwalk between the stations, stopping to buy a £12 panini on the way.
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