HORNIMAN MUSEUM & GARDENS: A GUIDE

HORNIMAN MUSEUM & GARDENS: A GUIDE

Many Londoners will never have heard of the Horniman Museum, one of the quirkiest museums in London and a historical and anthropological cabinet of curiosities. It’s home to the most famous Walrus in the world and you’ll even see a fossilised, ahem, merman. It houses a fabulous aquarium, one of the prettiest conservatories you will

HOST CAFÉ: IS THIS THE QUIRKIEST CAFÉ IN LONDON?

HOST CAFÉ: IS THIS THE QUIRKIEST CAFÉ IN LONDON?

Walk around the timeworn streets off St Paul’s Cathedral and you might come across Host Café, a stunning daytime pitstop hiding away behind the doors of the church of St Mary Aldermary. St Mary Aldermary St Mary Aldermary, like so many churches in the area, was badly damaged in the Great Fire of 1666. The

JAMAICA WINE HOUSE: THE OLDEST COFFEE SHOP IN LONDON

JAMAICA WINE HOUSE: THE OLDEST COFFEE SHOP IN LONDON

The oldest coffee shop in London isn’t what you would expect. For starters, it’s named the Jamaica Wine House and not the Jamaica Coffee House. But it is actually a pub cum wine house as we will discover in a moment. It does sell coffee but no, it doesn’t sell Jamaican food or drink. Confused?