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Six neighbours and friends who regularly walk together took on a new challenge. It was not going to base camp or scaling some of the Scottish peaks but it was doing the Monopoly Walk. 20 miles visiting all the sites on the standard monopoly board for London.

“Nearly eighteen years ago I spotted the write up of the Monopoly Walk in one of the colour supplements and with husband Dave had wanted to do this challenge for some years but the opportunity never seemed to arise” said Gill Frost.

With four other friends Moss and Val Gold and Charles & Andie Smith we were doing one of our regular walks when the topic of fresh challenges arose – this was our chance. “Having spent several evenings discussing this over a few glasses the challenge was set and we embarked for London” continued Gill.

“The walk involves visiting all the properties on the traditional monopoly board. Some are easy to identify but creative thinking was needed to identify “free parking” or “community chest” said Charles but we did it! – starting at Old Kent Road and moving round to pick up Fenchurch St Station, Whitechapel then round to Kings Cross and Marylebone – just under 14 miles on the first day. Day 2 was the around the west end and just in to the city picking up all the retail areas involving just over 6 miles. Old Bond Street and Regent Street were particularly tough trying to steer our wives away from too much retail therapy” said Charles who continued “We had great fun, met some great people doing other challenges, saw some interesting sites, went to places we have never been before and on the Saturday got very wet but we were not downhearted and it is a great way to see the main tourist sites in London. We are now working on our next challenge – the Cotswold Way.”