When I first heard Pam would be staying in the Little Venice area of London, I thought it would be the Italian section, just like Little Italy in Manhattan. Later I learned it had nothing to do with Italy or Italians. It was the canals.
Little Venice is the spot where three waterways come together and form a triangular lake. The canals are Paddington Arm, which seems to dead end a short distance away, Grand and Regents.
You can walk from Little Venice to Paddington Station along a canal, to Camden and the London zoo. Most of the routes are lined with canal long boats converted to living quarters. These are the permanent homes of many people. They tend gardens on the top deck, store firewood there as well and have many unusual adaptations to their boats.
There are cafes on boats, water taxis and boats you can rent for business meetings complete with all the audio visual and computer gear.
Best of all, the canals provide a pleasant greenway through an otherwise grimy city.
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