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Winning tip: On the beach in London
London is an amazing city, but loses some of its charm when you find yourself confined to your too-small flat. In the first lockdown I found myself strolling the streets of Wapping one morning in an attempt to stave off cabin fever. Near Shadwell Basin I dropped off the Thames path on to a tiny sandy patch of foreshore where I sat for a while listening to the river lap and break over the rocks and watching the water glinting in the early-morning light. If it hadnât been for the offices of Canary Wharf on the skyline, I could have easily believed for a moment that I wasnât in the middle of a city in the grip of a pandemic.