Random borough (18): 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 16 remaining borough names will be revealed when I unfold the slip of paper I'm about to pick from my legendary (and as-yet unseen) "special jamjar". I could pick any of London's other boroughs - inner or outer, urban or suburban, small or large, Boris or Ken, 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, Brent or Redbridge because they're the seventeen (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
I'm now embarking upon the second half of my haphazard capital odyssey. There's a fair chunk of East London still to visit, and a few stragglers in southwest London, and a ring of untouched boroughs surrounding Brent, but that's all. Which of these leftovers will be my destination for the day? 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 Harrow or Havering? And will I need to make use of my TfL tube closures leaflet? 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 (18): 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 16 remaining borough names will be revealed when I unfold the slip of paper I'm about to pick from my legendary (and as-yet unseen) "special jamjar". I could pick any of London's other boroughs - inner or outer, urban or suburban, small or large, Boris or Ken, 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, Brent or Redbridge because they're the seventeen (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
