Escorts in London Fields, E8: who is close, and how soon
Half past seven on a Saturday, and the park is already busy in its small way: runners on the diagonal paths, dogs under the plane trees, swimmers leaving the lido with wet hair, and the first trestles going up at the canal end of Broadway Market. This is the hour a night in E8 turns into a morning, and the neighbourhood makes that easy, with breakfast, a walk and the train all within a few streets of the grass. None of the board's names lives in E8, so London Fields escorts come out from the middle of town; she is usually an hour or so on the road after the office has confirmed, and every length, including the one that runs to the morning, is priced on the rates.
On the ground
London Fields in practice
Landmarks on the arrival slip
By postcode, never by nameE2 9NF, EC2A 3HU.
Nearest stations
Walking timeLondon Fields, 2 minutes. Hackney Central, 9 minutes. Cambridge Heath, 9 minutes.
Getting there
E8Travel is included across Zones 1 and 2, and counted from the moment the hour is set rather than from when she leaves.
On the board
Nearest prints to London Fields
Who works here
On the board in London Fields
The six prints above are a first shortlist for London Fields tonight. Any of the twenty eight on the who is free page can be asked for by name instead.
Note 02
Breakfast, street by street
Broadway Market is the obvious first stop. It runs from the bottom of the park down to the Regent's Canal, and on a weekday it is a street of cafés, bakeries and small shops, calm enough to sit over a second coffee. On Saturday the market fills it from end to end, and breakfast becomes something bought from a stall and eaten walking, or carried back indoors.
When the market is too much, two other streets do the job. Mare Street, beyond the railway to the east, is Hackney's main road, with cafés strung along it up towards the town hall and Hackney Central. Well Street, which leaves Mare Street heading east towards Victoria Park, is a smaller neighbourhood high street with a slower morning. Either is a short walk from the park, and neither feels like a morning spent in a queue.
Note 03
A walk, and a quiet way out
The morning walk here takes the water. Go down Broadway Market to the canal and the towpath runs both ways: east to Victoria Park and its lakes, west past Haggerston towards Hoxton. Early on it belongs to runners and to cyclists on their way to work, so a slow pace needs an ear for the bell behind you. Back through the park, the grass is still mostly empty until mid-morning.
A quiet departure is mostly a matter of timing, and for escorts in London Fields the timing is settled before the evening starts: the length of the booking is written into the confirmation, so the hour she leaves never has to be raised over coffee. Should the morning look like running on, raise it with the office while there is still time on the clock, not once it has run out. For the guest heading on, the Overground station beside the park goes to Liverpool Street without a change, which keeps the end of the morning to a few streets on foot, not a trip across town.
From The Roundup
Two notes worth reading for London Fields
Asked most often
London Fields, asked and answered
Where is breakfast on a weekday, when the market is not on?
Is there a morning walk that takes in water?
What is the park like before nine?
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