Victoria Park is the East End's park — open since 1845, large enough to disappear into, and with the Chinese pagoda beside the boating lake as its unlikely centrepiece. The walk through the park toward the canal passes the grove and the better café before reaching the Regent's Canal towpath at the western edge.
From there it's a straight, flat, traffic-free walk along the canal to Broadway Market, which on Saturdays is one of London's best. The cheese stall, the bread stall, the coffee from the railway arch: all reliable. Come on a Saturday and end with a pint in London Fields.
