My Journey from Chiswick House to the Amphitheatre

I started my journey by travelling from Hove to to Richmond and from there to Chiswick House and Gardens, where I wrote part of a story called ‘The Marmalade Factory’.

Next I got the bus to Hammersmith and from there took the tube into Central London.

I called in at the British Library – where I wrote part of a story with the same name – before heading up to Marchmont Street to visit Gay’s The Word, and to sign some books.

From there I went up to Russell Square tube station, where I headed for Marble Arch.

From Marble Arch, I searched for Tyburn Abbey – the former site of The Smallest House in London, and close to the site of the Tyburn Tree. I wrote part of a story in a cafe near by called ‘The Smallest House in London’ – I wrote (and set) part of it in The Garden Museum, which I visited last time.

From Marble Arch, I headed to St. Paul’s and walked to the Guildhall, the site of the Roman Amphitheatre – where I wrote part of a story of the same name.

Then I travelled back to Waterloo and walked to the South Bank Centre, to catch the Forward Prizes for Poetry.

I hadn’t intended it when I started, but combining the two journeys around London’s unusual places, I had been full circle: Waterloo to the Garden Museum Lambeth, to Westminster Abbey’s College Garden, to the Westminster Pier, then by boat to the Tate Modern, another boat to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel and then from there to Russell Square. On the second leg, I went from Clapham Junction to Richmond, to Chiswick House and Gardens, then to King’s Cross, back to Russell Square, then Marble Arch, St. Paul’s and the Guildhall, and back to Waterloo. At time of writing, 3 books of the 8 I abandoned have been found.

You can read about the first stage of my journey here.

You can read about the second part of my journey here.

You can take more of a look behind the scenes of Unusual Places here.

I made these journeys to celebrate the launch of the paperback and the ebook of Unusual Places.

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