Downstream

He then points out more
evidence of the tidal flow
beneath London Bridge,
where water swirls around the
pillars; ‘anyone who tells you
there aren’t eddies and
whirlpools . . . you would be
sucked under,’ he assures me.
‘If we dropped an orange in
here and came back for it in
five minutes, it would be
gone and carried under.’ I
look again at the force of the
water between the pillars;