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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Travel
Lisa Drewe

The seven best paddle boarding routes in London: from Tottenham to the Isle of Dogs

This year adventure travel is trending, as more of us look to get off the beaten track to decompress and reset. But a look at any of the UK’s prettiest waterways and bodies of water, dotted with people wielding their oars, is enough to prove you don’t need to catch a flight to get many of the same benefits.

Stand-up paddle boarding is trending as a pursuit. Last summer, researched showed that 4.5m Britons had tried it and that over 1m owned a board. It was named the nation’s fastest-growing sport. No doubt these numbers will only grow in the coming months with a sunny summer ahead of us promised by the Met office.

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