In walking distance
Now, that's nice info: a walkingtime table [or is it a walking time table or walking timetable? but they don't actually walk itself...] with the distances in time between the hot spots on London's South Bank. According to this matrix it's a 6 minutes walk from the Oxo Tower to Tate Modern. After our bicycling adventure we rode Shank's pony (in Dutch: namen de benenwagen) and found out the estimate is quite correct.
We found this information in the green zone between Gabriel's Wharf and the Oxo Tower. For more walks in London:
-Thames Path National Trail -Walk London
Etymology of going on/riding Shank's pony or mare (from wikipedia): traced back to shanks-nag, 1758; believed to be Scottish in origin (i.e. shanks-naig 1774). A nag is a little horse or pony, a shank is a shin.
More 'synonyms' for walking:
-to go by Marrow-bone stage = this is a really London expression; from 'Marylebone stage', a stagecoach that drove from the Marylebone area to the City of London (appr. 5 miles), which took the stage almost three hours. Marylebone was also written as Marrowbone -> shinbone.
See detailed explanation
-to go by Walker's bus = "The word walker itself also naturally suggests dismissing someone or the notion of being waved away - an in the more modern expression 'get out of here' - which we see in the development of the expressions again from the early 1900s 'my name's walker' or 'his name's walker', referring to leaving, rather like saying 'I'm off' or 'he's off'."
(see 'hookey walker')
-to take one's daily constitutional = constitutional walk, a regular walk taken as a form of exercise
