Little Venice

Should we have been embarrassed we didn't now about an area of London called Little Venice? At first we were but after seeing it, it can recede back to the netherworld.

We tried to replicate a paid walking tour of the area done on walks.com. We didn't do it all and probably we shortchanged ourselves by missing some key areas. However, we weren't impressed.

The south of Maida Vale looks nice enough- the canal is highly overrated to use a nice term. Little Venice itself is just a triangular shaped urban pool (i.e. polluted) with a couple of boats masquerading as cafes. Walk along an old canal with countless cigar boats and plants that look like weeds and the attraction is the neighborhood architecture more than the canal itself.

We were majorly mistreated at Cafe Laville, a little place overlooking the canal at Edgeware Road. We were told there were no hot drinks while they were in the middle of serving hot drinks to another table. We thought they were nonplussed we weren;t ordering food; either way, we stormed out. Dirtbags.

We exited at the canal at Lisson Grove and walked through that shabby neighborhood on the (long) way to Marylebone. We missed Saint John's Wood and probably a big chunk of the supposedly trendy Marylebone, ending up at Oxford Street and thinking we could have had a better day.