Random borough (17): Woohoo, halfway at last! Time yet again for me to take another random trip to one of London's 33boroughs. As I write I have no idea which one of the 17 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, Tower Hamlets, Haringey, Hounslow or Brent because they're the sixteen (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
My haphazard capital odyssey has so far taken four years, and isn't due to be completed until 2012. I may now be halfway through my quest but (unbelievably) the whole of East London is still up for grabs. There are a few stragglers in southwest London, and there's also a ring of untouched boroughs surrounding Brent, but that's all. Which of these leftovers will be my halfway house? Will I be treated to the cultural highlights of somewhere central and important, like Westminster or Camden? Or will I be dispatched somewhere rather more peripheral and off-radar, like Barnet or Bexley? Watch this space.
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 take lots of photographs 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 (17): Woohoo, halfway at last! Time yet again for me to take another random trip to one of London's 33 boroughs. As I write I have no idea which one of the 17 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, Tower Hamlets, Haringey, Hounslow or Brent because they're the sixteen (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
