London is a surprisingly green city, especially if you view it vertically from Google Earth.
Or indeed horizontally from LCN Route 2, such as here in south London (right), somewhere in a place called 'Ba-man-zee'.
We don't know exactly where in Ba-man-zee because we got lost in the undergrowth. Fortunately we met some friendly natives on a hunting expedition for 'ba-ba-kyu', evidently a local type of bushmeat.
We were able to communicate in creole, pidgin, mime and gesture to find a source of clean water (which they called 'nyu-zay-jant') and a route back to civilisation.
As the sign promises, it is Quite a Route.(Added Monday 13 July: Undergrowth cycling is clearly the in-thing this summer, to judge by Freewheeler's similar experiences in other far-flung parts. Perhaps TfL should put out a press release trumpeting this 100% rise in cycling levels on trans-foliage routes.)
Note to the dozier readers of the Guardian bike blog: This isn't taking the mickey out of Bermondsey residents. It's taking the mickey out of those (invariably white middle-class) tourist tales of 'simple but happy peasants' in their trip to 'the real' Kenya, Thailand, Dom Rep or wherever, which was in fact just another westerner-savvy tourist destination. There. Just so you know.
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