What is Walthamstow Wetlands?

Walthamstow Wetlands is Europe’s largest urban wetland nature reserve where you can do a variety of activities such as walking, cycling, bird watching or even just chilling with your family and friends.

What happened in Walthamstow Wetlands?

I have a fun story time to explain what happened when I went to this place. Firstly, my friend and I decided to rent bikes to ride to Walthamstow Wetlands. It was quite a struggle to firstly find bikes to rent, however, after taking three buses, we finally found it. But then, to our surprise, there was only ONE electric bike. We were quite annoyed but then we decided to rent this one bike and take turns to share. At this point, we were 15 minutes away by cycle to Walthamstow Wetlands so our journey started. 

Firstly I used the bike for about 7 minutes but I had to slow down as my friend was walking/running. Halfway, we bought 10 spicy wings and then continued our journey. My friend then rode the bike up till we reached Walthamstow Wetlands. 

When we reached Walthamstow Wetlands, we took some photos, chatted and relaxed. We also realised that the app was still charging us money for the bike even though we were not using it for the past approximately half an hour. We decided to leave and put the bike away but only to our surprise, my friend checked the app and saw that we could not put the bike in the same place again and we had to travel to Willow Walk which was about 20 minutes away. 

Erm…so another journey began. I took the bus and my friend went by bike all the way to Willow Walk only to put the bike back. 

I WAS GOING IN AN UNKNOWN BUS BY MYSELF WITH ONLY 6% PHONE CHARGE. YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT.

My friend was riding the bike as fast as she possibly could. After maybe about half an hour, my friend put the bike back, we met up, took the bus and went back to Walthamstow Central Station where we ate our wings. It was an absolute rollercoaster of a journey, but you know it was quite fun!

What did I like about Walthamstow Wetlands?

• It was very calm and the water looked very peaceful.
• There were barely any people which meant that we could very easily take photos and chat.
• There was plenty of space to walk and ride the bike.
• It felt good knowing that I was in Europe’s largest urban reserve. 

What did I not like about Walthamstow Wetlands?

• Since it is in a place where there aren’t many people, I would not recommend going by yourself to this place especially when it is dark as it may be unsafe, especially if you go deep into the urban reserve.
• You can get bored easily if you don’t have many activities to do.

Would I recommend it?

I would recommend this place if you want to go to relax and just be peaceful looking at the water but for me, it is not a must-go place.

This was my short review or diary entry about Walthamstow Wetlands. These are my opinions about this place. Make sure to check out my other articles. 

Thank you for reading, and have a lovely day!