Round the World with a Book

[skyring]

This site uses pattern recognition software to compare your photo with 200 celebrity photos. It then gives you the best matches. Apparently I look like Stanley Tucci (who?) and Johnny Carson. If I tell the software that I'm a girl it thinks I look like Shania Twain and Jodie Foster.

Yeah. Right.

More research for the London thing. London looks like a big and confusing place. I could walk around a four kilometre square of Canberra and there'd be maybe a hundred buildings bigger than a private house. London seems a little more tightly packed.

Listening to and reading quirky travel books. Two books on Ireland - Round Ireland With a Fridge and McCarthy's Bar.

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[whytraven.livejournal.com]

Hop on a tour bus and see the major sites. See what grabs your attention, figure out how to get there on the tube, and bob's yer uncle.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Ah, well I know where I need to go for the London thing. Monopoly boards in the British Commonwealth feature London streets such as Oxford Street, Whitehall, Whitechapel Road and so on - names known to every child and ex-child. It is a commonplace for tourists from Australia or South Africa or Pakistan to to visit as many of these locations as they can cram in.

Some people have a pint in every pub on the 26 streets, but I want to release a book on each one, take pictures and go home and write a book about it.

I suspect you can understand this ambition, excepting maybe you'd want to do it by bike!

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

Heh, no. You couldn't pay me to ride in London. ;-)

Yeah, I'm familiar with Monopoly (ex pat Brit here) and think that's a really cool thing to do :-)