My random exploration of the capital edges slowly towards completion, although still with more than two years to go. At this stage I'm left with only a western strip and an eastern chunk to visit, although these form a hugely diverse set of boroughs. The day is short and the weather forecast is grim, so I'd prefer somewhere closely-packed and central like Westminster, Camden or Hammersmith and Fulham. But knowing my luck I'll be despatched instead to the rainswept attraction-lite outskirts, somewhere sprawling like Barnet, Havering or Kingston.
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 and the rain holds off. 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 (24): 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 ten 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, Wandsworth or Greenwich, because they're the twenty-three (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
