From the knowledge of London to licenced taxi driver, fingers crossed...

After being made redundant for the third time I decided I was going to get myself a scooter and drive, roughly, 40,000 miles around London in order to try and complete “The Knowledge.”

Yes, I decided I was going to try and memorise London and explore its every nook and cranny, including the locations of streets, squares, clubs, hospitals, hotels, theatres, government buildings, public buildings, railway stations, police stations, courts, diplomatic buildings, important places of worship, cemeteries, parks, open spaces, sports and leisure centres, places of learning, restaurants, historic buildings…

Wow, its tiring enough just listing this stuff. But I would need to find all these places in order to pass the knowledge, yes, I was going to have to learn everything, which meant leaving no stone unturned in order for me to get around London without the use a Crapnav®.

This is an account of my journey through London and (hopefully) a complete account of how I did it, although please bear in mind there is, or so I’m told, a 70% drop out rate for people who start the knowledge and never get round to completing the maze that is called London.

So, here is my shot at it… the ups, the downs, the laughs and hopefully at the end of it the converted green badge.

It’s probably best I point out that I decided to do the knowledge because I was fed up of sitting at a desk, tied to a computer, writing articles that most of the time I couldn’t care less about and not because of some insane bet that I had taken while drunk and down the pub with mates.

If you have somehow stumbled across this site, thanks for reading and more importantly, be lucky…

Michael Overs....