Tales from the Top Deck

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Look out, I’ve thought of something.

Back in 2009, I began a quest to travel on every London bus route from start to finish and write about my adventures. There are around 450 routes in London and over the following three years I managed to knock out about 120 of them. There was a blog, inevitably, but as kids and life overtook me, I was unable to continue. I will perhaps resume in my dotage.

What I do have however, are many, many pages of notes from my hundreds of hours spent pootling arround the capital, so March will be a month of stories inspired by those travels. In truth, three or four of my stories over the last six weeks already have, while Come Home Adam has lots of stuff inspired by various bus trips, but I thought it’d be nice to get proper use from this time.

I think it’s important to say these will be fictional stories inspired by those travels, not just a recounting of disparate events. They will hopefully hang together as a series though. The other thing I’ve been thinking of is introducing a recurring character or two, to see how they develop through different stories. We’ll see.

I hope you enjoy them and thanks for reading. I passed 100 WordPress followers this week and if I could give you all a big hug I would.

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9 responses to “Tales from the Top Deck”

  1. db0ccelli

    i love this idea!

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    1. Thanks. Let’s hope I do it justice :/

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  2. […] I outlined yesterday, March is going to be London-themed, with tales inspired by my bus quest of a few years ago. They won’t all paint the city in such a negative light, I promise! I love the place. Those […]

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  3. Cool idea – and you reminded me of a long forgotten piece of writing of my own, a non-fiction piece of my experience of riding the Northern Line from one end to the other. I will have to rummage amongst some computer files…

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    1. Do it!

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  4. jessicarachow

    Can’t wait to read them all. Congrats on the 100 mark! 🙂

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    1. Thanks Jessica 🙂

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  5. Sounds exciting and congrats on the 100 (now 124!)…..
    Many years ago I travelled the full underground network in a few days – a somewhat easier challenge than you have set yourself.

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    1. Heh, thanks. Yes it’s proven too big of a challenge so far. One day I’ll get back to them.

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