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 Saturday, March 31, 2018

If you ever wake up and wonder where to go in London today, try this. It's my Random Tourist Inspiration Generator.

Roll two dice. If you don't have any to hand, the top left hand box is a link to an online dice roller.

Read down for the first dice (blue), and across for the second dice (yellow).

And whichever square you end up in, that's where you go. Easy.

[roll]	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Hampstead Heath	Primrose Hill Regent's Park	Camden Town	Regent's Canal	Dalston Hackney	Olympic Park
2	Paddington Little Venice	Baker Street Marylebone	Bloomsbury Fitzrovia	King's Cross	Islington Upper Street	Spitalfields Brick Lane
3	Notting Hill Holland Park	Hyde Park	Oxford Street Soho	Covent Garden	Clerkenwell	Shoreditch
4	Chiswick Hammersmith	South Ken (museums)	Trafalgar Sq Strand	South Bank	City (W) St Paul's	City (E) Tower
5	Kew	Victoria Pimlico	Westminster	Lambeth Vauxhall	Bankside Bermondsey	Docklands
6	Richmond Park	Chelsea Battersea	Brixton	Crystal Palace	Greenwich	North Greenwich

Hopefully most of these places are well known enough that you've got a good idea where they are, and perhaps what to do there. But you don't have to be totally rigid in your destination. Think of this simply as a way to break the deadlock of indecision. Use the names in the box as inspiration, maybe researching whereabouts there is to go beforehand, or perhaps simply turning up and wandering around.

Alternatively, as a reader of this blog you might be after something a bit more challenging. Why restrict yourself to the usual tourist spots when the whole of London is available for exploration?

In which case you need this instead, my Random Psychogeography Expedition Generator.

[roll]	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Harefield Ruislip	Harrow Stanmore	Finchley Brent Cross	Barnet Enfield	Epping Forest Chingford	Romford
2	Uxbridge	Wembley	Muswell Hill Highgate	Lea Valley	Walthamstow	Upminster Rainham
3	Hayes Southall	Acton Ealing	Shepherd's Bush	Hampstead	Royal Docks	Ilford Barking
4	Hounslow Heathrow	Barnes Mortlake	Fulham Putney	Camberwell Peckham	Deptford Lewisham	Woolwich Thamesmead
5	Twickenham Teddington	Richmond	Wimbledon	Clapham Streatham	Dulwich Forest Hill	Erith Bexley
6	Hampton Ct Kingston	Sutton Carshalton	Merton Mitcham	Croydon	Biggin Hill New Addington	Bromley Orpington

It works the same way - first dice blue, second dice yellow - but the destinations are further flung.

Think of it as having your own random jamjar, but in grid form.

Again, don't feel constrained by the names in the boxes. If it says Croydon, it's OK to deviate to Purley. If it says Muswell Hill and Highgate, it's OK to go to Crouch End. And if you're thinking, OMG I've no idea what there is to do in Harefield or Carshalton or Erith, well, that's the point. I've learned a heck of a lot about London by simply turning up and wandering around, and you could too.

If you'd like a little more choice, use both grids. Roll the dice, and then decide whether you'd like to go to the location in the green table or the location in the pink table.

If you'd like a little less choice, toss a coin first. If you get heads, use the green table, and if you get tails, use the pink table. That could make for a properly random day out.

If today is not the day to go, maybe bookmark this page for later (or remember to click back to March 2018 at a later date).

And if you do ever go, please come back afterwards and tell us what random stuff you found. We'd love to know how you got on.

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