The London Loop, day one

Today we took a break from sorting out things, and walked an 8mile section of the London Loop (which  is a waymarked 150mile circumnavigation of London) from Hayes and  Harlington station to Uxbridge station. The route took us mostly along the tow path of the  Grand Union Canal and in the  valley of the River Colne. We found it surprisingly peaceful and rural, and we were  accompanied by a variety of  birdsong all along the way, despite a large human  population and  many industrial units close by. Oddly, to my mind anyway, most of the  cyclists who passed  us were  food delivery couriers. 
A bucolic  view of the canal is my main shot with another in extras where a row of poplar trees hides an industrial unit. The other extra is of a pair of Mandarin ducks near Uxbridge.   
It was a very good day out, in territory  previously unexplored by us.
We look forward to walking  another  section when  we are next staying in the Greater London area.