For the avoidance of doubt, I will not be writing a full alphabetical series of posts called London Countries.
It sounded like a good idea, didn't it? Cosmpolitan, cultured and comprehensive, fully reflecting the world we live in across the most diverse of capital cities. Where in London do the Colombians hang out, where's the best place for Cuban food and why is the Cambodian embassy in a detached house in Willesden?
But think more deeply and it's actually a terrible idea, at least in its entirety, which is why it won't be happening.
Episode number 2 would have been Albania and I'd be starting to scrape the barrel. The embassy's in Pimlico ("Look, a building in Pimlico") and its Wikipedia article consists of just two sentences, one of which is generic. There are no streets called Albania Road, Tirana Avenue or anything, not just in London but anywhere in the UK. I could take you to an Albanian restaurant in Palmers Green, attempt to find the HQ of the Anglo-Albanian Association or tell you which West London schools Dua Lipa and Rita Ora used to go to, but it wouldn't be interesting, it'd be forced.
And look how the sequence continues... Wednesday 5th June: Algeria Wednesday 12th June: Andorra Wednesday 19th June: Angola Wednesday 26th June: Antigua and Barbuda
This sequence of intermittent mediocrity would continue until January 2028 - that's 1 in 7 blogging days for the next 3½ years - to the detriment of me posting anything enlightening instead. Yes I could skip several countries but how would I decide which, and it wouldn't then be a complete feature, and it'd still be remarkably repetitive even if I cut the list by three-quarters.
In short you might well want to read it but I am not going to write it because it's not the good idea you initially thought it was. A one-off post about Afghanistan will do nicely.
