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S P R I N G 2 0 1 5 | G O I N G P L A C E S 37 Hitting the Pavement ough it's not everyone's cup of tea – especially in a country known for real tea parties, complete with crustless sandwiches and bone china – Kathleen and I like to break a sweat from time to time. Plus, we know we need to do something to counteract all of the fish and chips and bangers and mash we've been eating – or risk returning home mushier than English peas. Enter City Jogging Tours, the active tourist's answer to London sight- seeing. Our guide, the extremely fit and Lady Guinevere-esque Denise Sofia picks us up, so to speak, and we proceed to trot a solid eight kilometres back and forth over six of London's bridges on the Riverside jogging tour. We hit all the highlights: Downing Street, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Lon- don Eye. As we jog across Blackfriars Bridge, Sofia regales us with the tale of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, who was found hung from the bridge's arches in 1982, with $14,000 in various currencies stuffed in his trousers. Grisly, but the pause gives us time to catch our breath. At our final destina- tion, Tower Hill, just northwest of the Tower of London, Kathleen says she's happy that my "energetic youngster self" pushed her into seeing the city in a new and active way, but now she's more than ready for a refreshing pint of Guinness. Me too. To Market, to Market e differences between the way a 20-something and a 50-something shop don't always lie in style – Kathleen and I own a few of the same pieces of clothing, in fact – but rather in the socio-economic factors that dictate where I, the 20-something freelancer, can afford to make pur- chases. Sure, it's fun to pop into designer boutiques and ogle the crafts- manship of clothes that I can't afford – like the striking Balmain skirt suit