Things started badly: I became very confused
and disoriented after coming out of Canary Wharf Station by the wrong exit. I
waited outside the wrong building for a while. I had to send texts and find another
meeting place, a big store that we could both see from where we were standing.
I know that many people have problems
finding their way around the area, especially when visiting it for the first
time. They rightly say that the signposting is inadequate and the multiplicity
of levels and station exits makes navigation difficult. The tall corporate buildings and their huge entrance
halls with all the plate glass and marble look much the same at ground level,
which doesn’t help either.
Although I have been to Canary Wharf several
times, I always have trouble finding my way around - even with a map. It is as
if something inside me is reset and I go back to square one each time I go
there; previous visits have done nothing to familiarise me with the area. My
inner compass often goes haywire; I set off in the wrong direction and
sometimes get so lost that it takes a while to get back on track.
