Dave Newt firebird.remove.net.this.remove.me.20.den@spamgou rmet.com
wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:

I am guessing but the transition from urban Hackney to the lower reaches
of the Lea Valley with canals, canal side pubs, pony trekking centres
and the marsh lands. Go for a walk on them - you would never know you
were in London and the cycle path beside the canal is very pleasant on a
warm day. Obviously you then wander into Waltham Forest which is a
built up area but I always feel that it is somehow "separated" from
Inner London. Certainly true if you cross from Tottenham over Forest
Road with reservoirs each side with people fishing and birds skimming
the water - lovely on a Summer's morning at 07.00 on the top deck of a
123 bus.

Oh!

I assumed the OP was referring to the stench of poppers and skunk coming
from the teenage mothers on the top deck.

(At least that was my experience of the 48 on Lea Bridge Road last week.)

Sorry to sound so naïve, but what do poppers smell like?