Hello, sorry to bother you.

Can I ask you a slightly odd question?

I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench

where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes.

Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? What's your favourite day of the week?

Well I can answer that very quickly.

I'm retired, so I don't really have one.

It's better simple as that, really.

But during the week, I like to walk around London. It's about as simple as that, really. But you know, during the week,

you know, I like to walk around London. Today I walked along the river to Vauxhall to this

excellent cafe. It's called the Kennington Lake Cafe. I hope not too many of your viewers go there

because it's really busy enough. I had a very good, excellent breakfast. And then I took the northern line up to Archway and then now I'm in Hampstead Heath and what I'm going to do after now is I'm going to walk down Parliament Hill to Waterston's you know and Gower Street and read a couple of books and then after that I'm going to go to Chinatown and have some dinner then I'm going to slowly walk home back to Battersea and that's my day.

This is brilliant.

Okay.

What do you have to say for, I mean, you know, what's quite funny about what you just said is that

a very small percentage of people, one, get a chance just to walk around, just to ambor and to drift.

See a lot of people, whenever they had the chance to it, don't do it.

What have you got to say for it? Why do you do it?

Well, I like to see the sites of London. I like nature. You know, we're not having

new video, but if you could sort of sit here, we're sitting

here on this bench, we're overlocking this hill, we can see bits of London, you know, it's a

magnificent view. In France, there's a word for this wandering around aimlessly. It's called

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