Are you looking for the best tour guide in London? Hiring a private tour guide or joining a public tour in London can be one of the best ways to experience the capital as a tourist, or even as a Londoner. You might be looking for an accredited Blue Badge Guide for a private tour
Having trouble finding a quiet picnic spot in London, courtesy of lockdown and with restaurants off the menu? We all know the usual al fresco hangouts: Regent’s, Hyde Park, Richmond and St James’s Parks, as well as Hampstead Heath, Primrose Hill and Kew Gardens. But there are also plenty of smaller or more unusual green
Oh, give me a good book about London history any day of the week. There’s nothing like it for peeling back the layers of the city and for taking a jaunt into London’s past sights, smells and sounds. The “magic lantern” has always fascinated writers, readers and historians, and for those of us who like
Eltham Palace is one of London’s unique gems, a historic venue where Art Deco London is living it up with its medieval ancestors. Imagine a hotsy-totsy sleepover with both Henry VIII and Hercule Poirot. You have a coupe de champagne in one hand, and the ivories tinker away in the background. A lemur called Mah-Jongg
I asked some of London’s top bloggers to come up with that one place that should be on every visitor’s radar – a must-see London gem. Imagine you only had half a day to spare in the city…here’s a curated list from those in the London know. I hope you enjoy jaunting around the city
Chances are, you’ve never heard of the Berners Street Hoax, one of the world’s biggest pranks and one which brought Georgian London to a virtual standstill. Concocted by Theodore Hook who was a celebrity of the time, it was designed to show that any old London house could become the most talked-about address in town
Most people think the Savoy Hotel was built by a hotelier. It wasn’t. Richard D’Oyly Carte was a theatre impresario who needed a place for his opera-going audience to sleep. That distinction matters — because it explains everything about the man, his money, and the monument he left in central London. D’Oyly Carte died in
You know the bear. But do you know the street where his creator sat down and wrote the first line? Most literary tours skip the London part entirely — they jump straight to Ashdown Forest in Sussex. That misses the point. A.A. Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh in a house on Mallord Street, Chelsea, while his son
Most people walk past 2 Pearson Square without a second glance. It’s a glassy office block near Oxford Street, home to dentists and dermatologists. But inside its ground floor sits one of London’s most ridiculous interiors — a tiny chapel covered in gold mosaic, Italian marble, and enough Byzantine bling to make Istanbul jealous. The
I’ve taken every speedboat ride on the Thames at least twice. Thames Rockets, Thames Jet, London Rib Voyages — the works. Here’s the thing nobody tells you: most people book the wrong one and spend £40 getting wet and bored. I’m here to fix that. Thames Rockets runs the fastest passenger boats on the river