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Want to See London the Socially Distant Way? Try Kayaking the Canals

A new perspective can make you feel far, far away—even if you’re just four miles from home.

Photographer: Jack Wittels/Bloomberg

It was around week five of lockdown, and I was perched on our London apartment’s canal-side balcony as a youngish couple, sun-kissed and laughing, floated past in what looked like an inflatable dinghy.

I pleaded with my wife.