The New Forest: If the only forest you've ever encountered has been on the pages of a fairytale the New Forest still won't disappoint. It's not just a lot of tall, straight trees topped with bright ... [more]
Millions of visitors to London take their photo with Big Ben every year - at least they think they do. What many overlook is that Big Ben is not the clocktower attached to the Houses of Parliament, bu... [more]
Even if you live in the tiniest of apartments you can still have a garden – it just needs to be a correspondingly tiny garden: a window box sized garden.
You don't even have to have a large windows... [more]
From the Tower of London to the Gherkin to the BT Tower, London wouldn't be London without its iconic buildings. And at the New London Architecture's Building Centre (NLA) you can find out not only ab... [more]
London is brimming with cocktail bars, but not all are equal. If you're looking for somewhere to indulge in your favourite tipple, or try something completely new, then here's a round-up of five of th... [more]
When is a petrol station like a cinema?
Probably never. There are few buildings more different to each other than a charming old picture house and a form-and-function service station. But that has... [more]
If the UK hosts a street party bigger than the Notting Hill Carnival then it must be held in silence and I must be the only person not invited. 'Cause EVERYONE is invited to join in making some noise... [more]
If you've always fantasised about completing a marathon, but are far too lazy to actually run 42 kilometres, feel free to settle for the slacker's alternative: a TV Marathon.
For those who don't kn... [more]
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's opera Three Tales combines live music with prerecorded audio and video to explore man's relationship with technology in the twentieth century. Following a successful Camb... [more]
London's canals used to be insalubrious places that smelled of a hundred different kinds of nasty, and were inhabited largely by submerged trolleys lurking in the depths and the faded crisp packets of... [more]
For most people the name Oxford belongs first and foremost to the university, the oldest in the English speaking world. But around the beautiful ancient colleges is an even older riverside town. In ... [more]
When you were a kid you might have read books staring Dick and Jane, in almost every edition of which there was an illustration of at least one child flying a diamond shaped kite trailing a tail of bo... [more]
Ever since Drew Barrymore's female roller derby movie 'WHIP IT' hit cinemas, rollerskating's all the rage again. You can get in on the action with the London Friday Night Skate and the Sunday Stroll.... [more]
Looking for a stress-free mini weekend escape that lets you keep your head in the clouds? Grab your kite and head to North London beauty spot Hampstead Heath. In the southeast corner of the heath th... [more]
Since the 23rd of June odd things have been happening on the South Bank. From acrobats flying through the air, and actors musing, to live music, storytelling, and large projection screens flickering f... [more]
Seen from above Brompton Cemetery's layout probably looks a lot like the floor plan of a great cathedral, with one long, tree lined avenue running towards a round central path and a shorter walk runni... [more]
Rock down to Electric Avenue to the Brixton Markets, the largest Afro-Caribbean market outside of Africa or the Caribbean – OK, just in Europe then. The market is a bombardment of Caribbean sights, s... [more]
Fur jackets, vintage dresses, indie buns, Ray-Bans, bicycles, art school graduates, musicians, vegetarians...welcome to trendy Shoreditch, the heart of London's party scene.
Located within the Boro... [more]
Some stories lend themselves directly to the sweeping grandness of an opera house, and Pushkin's novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, which unravels the urgent passion and tragedy of unequal love, is one of... [more]Categories Useful Tags |
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If you've never witnessed a display by the Red Arrows, then how about taking some time out to see one of the most spectacular and exhilarating aerobatic flight teams in the world.
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Boris wants you to get on your bike - no, not to look for work, but to have fun!
He's closing off a load of roads to traffic of the noisy polluting variety so that you the cyclist can bike about Lo... [
If you've often thought about cycling in London, perhaps to work or just as a leisure pursuit, but felt intimidated by the busy roads or just didn't know how to get started, the city's new 'superhighw... [
London's a scintillating city, but when you feel the need for a bit of a country retreat - well, it's just a bus ride away. With its majestic neo-classical house set in over 350 acres of splendid park... [
London's a great city but no doubt, occasionally, you like to escape the crowds, get away from the traffic and just see somewhere new.
A trip out of town might mean heading down to the coast and r... [
Every two months, at a club in Camden, there is a gathering of sinners. As you can imagine, it's a very large gathering, for there are few of us who can claim to be as pure as the driven snow.
In ... [
London is a city of gardens large and small, but the Chelsea Physic Garden is unique in being the oldest botanical garden in town. Founded in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries it has over... [
When you're in a cinema, feeling tense with your heart really pumping is fine when it's a horror movie you're watching - but when it's because of some annoying toerags making noise all the way through... [
Ah, the seaside! Sunny skies and ocean breezes, misty blue vistas and sticks of sweet rock. Holidays by the seashore are a longstanding British tradition, and never was there a prettier coastal resor... [
The Brits love a tipple and while wine may be continuing to increase in popularity, a good ol' British beer is still the drink of choice for most.
So it's exciting news to hear that Earls Court wil... [
The view from the London Eye is undoubtedly spectacular but everyone's done it and, let's be honest, there's no effort involved.
A much more satisfying, as well as culturally enriching, experience... [