Yesterday we took a trip out to Africa (Brixton) a godforsaken place in south London that is full of pro Palestine nut jobs, Africans, Jesus freaks and the homeless. A strange day in all, not least is that I saw the most amounts of good boys on the tube and DLR. Including a dead ringer for Pepsi dog and a brown rug Jet.
Brixton maybe the home of music but for thrift shopping apart from the big Banardos, has nothing, you are better off going to Peckham, which at least has a Crisis the Harrods of Charity Shops.
Coming home we got almost to Woolwich Arsenal DLR before being shunted back to King George V dock as a train had broken down on the station.
George V station is a strange place, its got no gate across only a voluntary Oyster tap out, you could theoretically go from here to Stratford international (not Stratford, the one at the end of the line) for free as that has the same set up. I guess its the North Woolwich equivalent of Woolwich Dockyard station on the trains. For those that know. I wouldn't myself as I had the ticket inspector come along.
I hadn't been there for about 40 years and as its North Woolwich, it means I can take the ferry to my side of the river. Can remember it being rather bleak and there was an escaped budgie the last time we visited. And it hasn't really changed much, a few local shops before we hit the road to the ferry, and it must be said fuck all else.
A fun hack, it's serviced by the Superloop express bus network, if you don't fancy taking the DLR or Crossrail (switch at Whitechapel) to Stratford to go to Walthamstow. You can bypass Woolwich and get the Ferry then the SL2 all the way once you're on the other side.
The ferry is actually quite nice, with a few fellow travellers and some seating arrangements meaning you can look out over the side as you cross into civilization. Once there its just a case of going up Thomas Street and looking in where Omni's once stood. A bastion of alternate lifestyle its now part of the British Hate (Heart) foundations furniture shop. The Cashies played Waiting in vain when I looked in which was probably the highlight of the day.
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