Random borough (14): What better way to celebrate this blog's fifth birthday than for me to take another random trip to one of London's 33boroughs. Sorry I'm a bit late with this one, but my summer's been rather busy and so I've been prioritising real life over online geographical haphazardry. As I write I have no idea which one of the 20 remaining borough names will be revealed when I unfold the slip of paper I'm about to pick from my "special jamjar". I could pick any of London's other boroughs - inner or outer, urban or suburban, small or large, fascinating or dull. I just know it won't be Merton, Islington, Enfield, Sutton, Lewisham, Southwark, Kensington & Chelsea, Hackney, Hillingdon, the City, Bromley, Lambeth or Tower Hamlets because they're the thirteen (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already. So far my random jamjar has shown a very distinct preference for south and east London. Look, I've covered the whole of the eastern half of inner London already - what are the chances of that? Is today the day I finally head even further east, or maybe start filling in that gaping void to the west? Or will I just end up making the big grey blob even bigger?
Once I've researched my randomly-chosen borough online then I'll head off and visit some of its most interesting places (assuming it has any). As usual I hope to visit somewhere famous, somewhere historic, somewhere pretty, somewhere retail, somewhere sporty and somewhere random. I might even takelotsofphotographs while I'm at it, if the borough's photogenic enough. Then after I've made my grand tour I'll come back tomorrow and tell you all about it. Let's see where I'm going this time...
Random borough (14): What better way to celebrate this blog's fifth birthday than for me to take another random trip to one of London's 33 boroughs. Sorry I'm a bit late with this one, but my summer's been rather busy and so I've been prioritising real life over online geographical haphazardry. As I write I have no idea which one of the 20 remaining borough names will be revealed when I unfold the slip of paper I'm about to pick from my "special jamjar". I could pick any of London's other boroughs - inner or outer, urban or suburban, small or large, fascinating or dull. I just know it won't be Merton, Islington, Enfield, Sutton, Lewisham, Southwark, Kensington & Chelsea, Hackney, Hillingdon, the City, Bromley, Lambeth or Tower Hamlets because they're the thirteen (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already. So far my random jamjar has shown a very distinct preference for south and east London. Look, I've covered the whole of the eastern half of inner London already - what are the chances of that? Is today the day I finally head even further east, or maybe start filling in that gaping void to the west? Or will I just end up making the big grey blob even bigger?
