The capital of England is a gigantic metropolis of urban sprawl, with loads of people and traffic moving through the twisted alleys and larger streets in a sort of pattern that would probably take years to fully comprehend. On one of the days that I took pictures, I started out near the Hammersmith station in the west and skated through the city, passing-by Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street, Westminster and Parliment, through the City of London, up to St. Paul’s Cathedral and eventually ending up at the Tate Modern. London is not the easiest city to skate through, with all the traffic, pedestrians and banged up roads – and with the the flow of traffic going in the other direction for me, can even be a bit disorienting, so I took it slow.

At one point, I think it was near St. Paul’s Cathedral, an officer stopped me and told me to get of the skateboard and that it wasn’t allowed to skate in the city. I asked him if it was allowed to at least skate on the bike paths. He looked confused for a quick minute and said he didn’t think so and that I should just go to the other side of the River Thames if I was going to ride the board again and then took off. I waited until the dude turned the corner and then jumped back on the board and continued on to the Tate. It all seemed a bit strange to me, why a city with such a big problem with smog and congestion, would discourage alternative transportation. But I guess it is England after all, and rules are rules.