Saturday saw us enjoying fabulous weather in the London Docklands area. It is just such a contrast to ‘old’ London with its heritage buildings. Here in the Docklands they have boldly redeveloped the land around the docks that had been left behind when containerisation moved the port area further down the Thames. 
What has been achieved since the 80’s is simply fantastic. And yet, the reminders of the past are there with old dock cranes etc scattered around.
We started close to one of my favourite sculptures, the traffic light tree, and walked along the Thames path to the southern most point of the Isle of Dogs , with views to Greenwich, then back up the middle alongside the old docks, over to the western side, with views of the Dome, 
then back across the top to ourstarting point.
On the mooring rope for a floating restaurant we came across a great example of urban rubbish recycling.
A pair of coots was tenderly raising their offspring on a collection of rubbish. Not quite on the scale of the kids raised on the rubbish tips in the Philippines.
The reason for picking this particular weekend was a festival that was being held in and around the Docklands area. 
Saturday was ‘dance in the streets’ day and we enjoyed a number of performances before heading home.
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