Walking In The Footsteps Of Real Legends | Abbey Road London
On Christmas day it is a tradition for me to go for a walk before I have my Christmas Lunch. It helps to build up a healthy appetite for all that delicious food I’m about to eat and all that booze that is going to get drank.
Unfortunately my fellow Aberdonians failed to send me some of that beautiful snow that they have been having recently. That would have made for a near perfect day, but alas you cant always have everything that you wish for. Never the less it was a fairly nice day, the sky was blue and it wasn’t too cold. It was a good day to go for a stroll.
All I had to do was persuade my African Princess that we weren’t going to be walking too far. Nah of course we weren’t, “It isn’t far, HONEST”. I explained to her that we would go and visit the most famous zebra crossing in the world, made famous by the legendary “Beatles”, WHO? I don’t think they are quite so well known in Botswana.
I wasn’t quite sure how far the iconic pedestrian crossing on Abbey Road was, but it couldn’t be too far could it. I knew the start of Abbey Road was only a 15 minute walk from where I lived. I wasn’t to know it was right at the opposite end of Abbey Road from where I lived in Kilburn.
We must have past by about 4 pedestrian crossing, before we got to the Abbey Road zebra crossing made famous by the Beatles. I had to carefully give each zebra crossing the once over to make sure it wasn’t the one I was looking for.
It however became quite apparent once we had reached the zebra crossing that appears on the Beatles, “Abbey Road” album cover. The graffiti on the wall of the Abbey Road recording studios just next to the crossing and all the people larking about and having their photo taking on the zebra crossing makes it impossible to miss.
It was maybe Christmas day, but there was about 15 people at the Abbey Road zebra crossing following in the footsteps of the legendary Beatles. Everyone was having a good time having their photo taking, where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star and George Harrison walked when shooting the cover of the last album they recorded before they officially split up.
Abbey Road maybe isn’t the best album ever recorded, hell it isn’t even the best Beatles album and their music is maybe not quite as relevant as it once was, but for me it was an amazing feeling to walk across the Abbey Road zebra crossing. I grew up listening to the Beatles and some of there songs still hit it right on the button for me, their music will quite literally live for ever.
It was interesting to see all those people from a variety of different countries paying homage to the Abbey Road zebra crossing. In fact I was the only Scottish person or if you prefer the only British person there.
As we were heading home, my African Princes asked me why I had said it wasn’t far. I pretended I was deaf and quickly changed the subject. I was ready to see her in her Christmas outfit again, Santa sure was good this year.
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