What was your nicest commute to work?

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I used to cycle through rice fields, get a rickety old tram, then walk through a bonsai nursery. Took 40 minutes. japan.

current commute is a 30 minute walk along a seafront….lovely in the summer. Bit challenging in a gale.

A 20-minute walk through a lovely part of central London to Bond Street. I can appreciate now that I was very lucky to get my flat there in the early 90s. You certainly couldn’t do it on an entry level salary now!

Nicest: when I lived in Clapham and used to walk to work in Brixton. Back when you could live in these areas while earning £10k a year!

Worst: working in Covent Garden, battling with packed tubes every day. Over two hours a day getting in and out from Zone 5.

I walk to work. It takes me half an hour, mostly through the medieval and renaissance centre of an Italian town. I don't look at the rubbish!

I used to walk across Tower Bridge, which sounds great but was actually a bit crap; dodging all the tourists, and if the bridge was up then I’d be late.

I cycle now; the first 2 miles are uphill, so a bit of a slog, but the last 2 are downhill which is fun (and the same in reverse on the way home). It’s great exercise, free, and properly wakes me up.

Cycling through Stanford University on a summer internship.

Currently walk across a common which has a lot of trees, ferns, blackberry bushes, stinging nettles and robins. Always reminds me that even in the darkest of places things thrive and survive

The Swansea to Carmarthen early morning train commute was stunning. It ran so close to the estuary. Early morning mist hovering over the water and watching herons always made me really happy

Mine was a train commute from Shoreham-by-Sea to Victoria and back. I got so much reading done!

What a great question! Had a crap summer job once but the commute was usually a short boat trip along the coast. Always lightened the heart.

I’ve been lucky enough to have a few walking commutes and I love that so much too.

worst was a horrible full bus on a london arterial road - took an hour to go about 4 miles.

I lived and worked in Sydney many years ago and used to get the ferry from circular quay to Manly…fabulous start to the day !

Best was a walk over Hampstead Heath! I lived at Parliament Hill Fields and worked just off Hampstead High Street. Helped by being the cushiest job ever, basically hand-holding a psychologist who was trying to write a book.

Worst: I agree with a PP that the walk over Tower Bridge gets old very quickly when you're doing it day in, day out in the winter months.

A family member used to work on Holy Island and would drive across the causeway to get to work. When I worked in York, the train journey wasn’t much fun but I would get out of the station, see the Minster set against the sky, the old city walls and walk under Micklegate Bar, which reeked of history

I cycle across the commons in Cambridge. I like saying hello to the cows.

My current one. Permanent remote role so I commute from my bed to my desk.

I drive through a beautiful Scottish Glen, something new to see every day in all weathers. Sheep , deer , red squirrels, beautiful in the sun , gorgeous on a frosty morning. Snow on the hills , wild in the rain .

I love it

Yes I love that road, it’s uplifting.

(shame about the traffic!)

It's hard to beat WFH, but if the office-based ones, favourite commute was probably the summer after 6th Form, when my cousin and sister and I all worked in various places in the same town that my dad worked in, and he'd give us all a lift (it was about half an hour from where we all lived), and we would bring a succession of mix tapes and sing along tunelessly the whole way there and the whole way home. Such a laugh!

Next favourite was when I used to cycle to work; it was partly beside a dual carriageway but then the path turned to run along the coast and that was fab!

Current one. A 20 minute walk through the city.

Current one. WFH.

I do the school run which gets me out the house in a morning so I don’t literally just roll from bed to desk. Love WFH and no commute.

Through part of the Trough of Bowland. Beautiful at all times of year, but absolutely magical in winter.

I sometimes used to drive from north London to New Forest.
Absolute hell on M25 followed by the most beautiful drive in the world. Even better if it was a sunny spring day. The trees, the peace, good road surface, lack of traffic jam and surrounded by stunning nature peppered with adorable cottages and to die for houses.
Glorious.

I love the idea of commuting by boat...as long as the sea was calm.

I used to work in the Highlands, there was no commute, but I'd get up early every morning and walk down to the lochside and see the mountains in the background.

I have a seven minute countryside stroll to my jobs at the mo. Lovely.

Leaving work, I drove through the industrial estate and then uphill through woodland to the dual carriageway. Left onto this road which took me through open fields, with a view of the moors and Roseberry Topping. Then, when I was nearly home, there's a little hill crest and as I drove over it, the Priory ruins were silhouetted against the sky.
I had just left ExH - I loved doing this 30 minute drive to my new home. I could feel my work worries just dropping away. I'm still here, but WFH now - I miss doing this commute.

65 bus from Brentford to Richmond Hill. Sitting upstairs, cross Kew Bridge, then long drive past Kew Gardens.