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Monopoly Board Challenge

Finally, you wonderful people get an insight into our fan-bloomin-tastic victory of: The Monopoly Board Challenge! The challenge, by the way was to visit all streets and stations featured on the monopoly board, in one day only, and to obtain evidence of visiting each place. We grasped this mission firmly by the breaches and one sunny day in the summer holidays, we trotted up to london and followed our path to enlightenment...

Ok, so the day started with the three creators plus Jack meeting at London Bridge Station. We were armed with a london street map, a bus route map, an A-Z and most imprtantly, a route for our challenge. (courtesy of Nicky's Dad) So technically everything should have gone smoothly. However, things immediately went belly-up when trying to find our way out of london bridge station and to the bus stop. After 20 minutes of searching we eventually found where we should be and with a great sigh we realised that this wasn't going to be a peice of cake.
This is the route we took:

 

Train to London Bridge

 

1.                  21 bus to Bricklayers arms top end of Old Kent Rd (15 mins)

2.                  42/78 bus to Tower Hill walk to Fenchurch St Station (15)

3.                  Walk from Fenchurch st to Aldgate (10)

4.                  Walk east to end of Whitechapel Rd past Aldgate East tube for about 100 yards (5)

5.                  Tube Hammersmith and city to Liverpool St Station (5)

6.                  Bus 205 passes Angel Station, Euston Rd, Kings X Station via Pentonville Rd (30ish)

7.                  Stay on bus til Marylebone Stn

8.                  Bus 2 down Baker St to Oxford St  and Marble Arch (15)

9.                  Lunch Stop in Hyde Park via Park Lane (45ish)

10.             All roads immediately south of Oxford St before Bond St are in Mayfair (walk down to Grosvenor Sq and return if time American Embassy 9/11 memorial etc) (20)

11.             Walk along Oxford St east to Bond St (15)

12.             Bus 8 from New Bond St (Oxford St end) to Green Park stn. This is in Piccadilly opposite Ritz hotel. (10)

13.             Walk along Piccadilly east via Vine St (off swallow St on north side) Come back to Piccadilly and continue to Piccadilly Circus.

(cherub thingy) and on to Leicester Square via Coventry St (20)

14.              Return to Piccadilly circus and take any northbound bus up Regent St towards Oxford Circus. GT Marlborough St I on right hand side 200 yards before Oxford Circus (near Hamleys!) (15)

15.             Bus 15/23 to Fleet St via Trafalgar Square and get off at Law Courts (20)

16.             Cross over and board any bus 11/15/23 back to Strand (5)

17.             Get off at east end of Strand near Waterloo Bridge. Walk north into Wellington St and Bow St (10)

18.             Walk back to Strand and west too Trafalgar Square (feed pigeons) (15)

19.             Walk south past end of Northumberland Avenue into Whitehall (5)

20.             Go down Whitehall to Horseguards (building) on right hand side. Go through Horse Guards Parade, turn right up Horseguards Rd to Mall. Cross Mall Ascend steps by Dike of Yorks monument through waterloo place to Pall Mall (20)

21.             Walk back to Charing Cross station (10)

 

 

We did it!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!

 

Total time 305 mins

To see the evidence of the challenge, click on the link below. Some of the pictures are crap, partly coz we had to use Esther's phone camera, but also some of the pics were taken whilst on a bus for example, or from quite a distance. Though we did try to include a street sign in all the places that we could find one. The challenge was only to obtain evidence, there was no mention of the evidence having to be of good quality...

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