Saturday, October 17, 2009
Random borough (23): Time once more 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 11 remaining borough names will be revealed when I unfold the slip of paper I'm about to pick from my legendary (but unseen) "special jamjar". I could pick any one of the other London 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, Brent, Redbridge, Ealing, Harrow, Croydon, Waltham Forest or Wandsworth, because they're the twenty-two (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
Two thirds complete, and only one third of my random exploration of the capital to go. A meandering western strip and an eastern chunk are all that remain, although they still form a hugely diverse set of boroughs. I've not picked anywhere in central London for ages, so maybe today I'll finally head back towards the tourist hotspots of Westminster or Camden. Or I could be fated again to tour the attraction-lite outskirts, be that Barnet, Bexley or Barking and Dagenham.
Once I've researched my randomly-chosen borough online I'll then 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... (and, after my meridian week, it had better not be Greenwich!)
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