Greenwich Foot Tunnel

City Guide London

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"FR Flash-back dans les années 90 : les jeunes Anglais trépignent dans des hangars sur fond de trance, cette techno si rapide et planante qu’elle sent le LSD à plein nez, tout en s’attifant de drôles d’atours style Le Cinquième Elément. A la boutique Cyberdog, on vit encore au rythme de ces nuits raveuses, avec des ribambelles de néopunks et de gothiques chaussés de semelles ultracompensées qui viennent là pour étoffer leur garde-robe - jupes futuristes et cuirs importables. L’ambiance ? Pénombre irisée de fluorescences et musique hallucinée mixée en live.Un monument de l’underground londonien, qui fait frissonner les sages touristes de Camden. EN You would think that you were in the anxiety-inducing depths of a bomb bunker.However, pedestrians and cyclists walk quietly along this 371-metre-long tunnel, which is dug under the Thames and joins the banks of Greenwich, a district famous for its meridian,to those of the Isle of Dogs. In 1902, this tunnel was drilled through so that workers from the southern suburbs could quickly reach the docks of the northern shore, where they were hiring people by the truckload. And today? Bankers rush through at full speed towards Canary Wharf, a forest of buildings that emerged from the land in the ’80s, and has now beentransformed into the Isle of Dogs, the financial megapole."