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Are we allowed to guess? With your history, and the seemingly arbitrary choice of where you started listing them, I guess your probably in Three Rivers. (Although your bus trip left us in Dratford, so it could be there!

timbo | 15.03.14 - 8:18 a.m. | #

Oh goody, you will passing through our lovely Borough, I will have to look out for you in Reigate or Redhill town centres. So close together yet so different.

SurreyGirl | 15.03.14 - 8:35 a.m. | #

Interesting. Who needs an estate agent when DG can tell you all about the local areas?

I'm planning to move out of London probably near to the time you'll be done with the majority of the 17, so this is one series I'll be reading.

John | 15.03.14 - 8:53 a.m. | #

Brilliant idea, and considerably more challenging than the random Boroughs, given the geographical spread and more sparse public transport, but certainly do-able.

The pedant would question the reference to Berkshire in your list of counties as Slough is now a unitary authority, although still in the ceremonial county of Berkshire so we'll let you off.

Why clockwise, when you did the buses in that direction and might like a change?

I reckon Dartford given the overwhelming presence of the Thames as a geographical marker.

I'm off to Margate today thanks to your mention of SouthEastern's £10 deal. Thank you!

Stephen | 15.03.14 - 8:53 a.m. | #

Oh, superb. Very much looking forward to this.

M@ | Homepage | 15.03.14 - 9:23 a.m. | #

"Honey! The jamjar's back!"
"Oh wait, there isn't a jamjar this time."
What passes for excitement in our house. :)

Chz | 15.03.14 - 9:23 a.m. | #

A splendid scheme. Among your other writings, I have particularly enjoyed the long day trips, to places generally quite far from London. So this will provide an interesting inbetween. I predict, somewhat prosaicly, that just-outside will be rather like just-inside, but with rather fewer buses.

Malcolm | 15.03.14 - 9:34 a.m. | #

Good luck with this.

But you may have some trouble with posting the photos

HoosierSands | Homepage | 15.03.14 - 10:11 a.m. | #

Oooh, excellent! :)

You could still make it random, by not telling us what was picked and researched, until the day before you go!

CornishCockney | 15.03.14 - 11:18 a.m. | #

I was going to do that for my blog , I'll won't bother as I will never be able to compete with the likes of you.

Anyway I would to wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours.

Luke Treherne | 15.03.14 - 11:53 a.m. | #

Sounds fun, cant wait to read all about it

Enjoy yourself :)

Rachel | 15.03.14 - 1:29 p.m. | #

re Stephen going to Margate. I went to Dover on Wednesday also thanks to dg mentioning the £10 offer.
As for dg venturing into the home counties should be interesting reading to come.

John | 15.03.14 - 1:40 p.m. | #

Hey Luke, you should so do it anyway :)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.03.14 - 7:27 p.m. | #

Oh a further piece of administrative pedantry - Thurrock is also a unitary authority so strictly speaking Essex has only two of the boroughs on the list (Epping Forest and Brentwood).

Stephen | 15.03.14 - 9:38 p.m. | #

Curiously, Berkshire is one county that wasn't abolished when it was fully unitarised, so the county still exists but without a county council.

Ben Harris | Homepage | 15.03.14 - 10:29 p.m. | #

you'll FINALLY go to and see Epsom properly! (passing through it on a bus doesn not count). gosh, exciting.

geofftech | Homepage | 16.03.14 - 9:41 a.m. | #

Could you perhaps take a jam jar with you on each expedition, and take a picture of it in front of somewhere famous? If it was the original jam jar, so much the better!

David | 16.03.14 - 2:32 p.m. | #

Cannot wait for you to end up visiting us in Welwyn Hatfield! I shall keep an eye out for you if you visit my workplace, which could be considered an attraction if you considered Bluewater and Lakeside attractions for your orbital bus journey!

Either that, or just a stroll along the Alban Way will do, to Mill Green Museum ;)

dg writes: Mill Green Mill? Done ;)

Daniel | 17.03.14 - 12:09 a.m. | #

Has it really been two years since Random Borough ended? I thought maybe it was six months, max. Scary.

Chris | 17.03.14 - 10:07 a.m. | #

Would really recommend Mole Valley and suggest that you take the "Mole Gap Trail" from Dorking station to Leatherhead station (or vice versa). A beautiful walk by the River Mole which will give you the opportunity to explore both Leatherhead and Dorking towns.

Other ideas: following up on Ebbsfleet, how about Grain in Kent (Boris Airport) and Sheerness/Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey? Given your railway interest, you'll probably know that both Leysdown and Allhallows were meant to become coastal resorts for Londoners.

dg writes: Mole Gap Trail - done.
Sheerness/Leysdown - done.
Grain - firmly on the to-do list.

Patrick | 18.03.14 - 12:40 p.m. | #











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