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Spoon & Tamago
Tan Yamanouchi’s New House Speaks to His Cats’ Desires Ever wondered what your home might look like if it were custom-designed to cater to the tastes of...
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a year ago
Ever wondered what your home might look like if it were custom-designed to cater to the tastes of your beloved feline companions? Well,  the architect Tan Yamanouchi of AWGL has designed a purr-fect home, prioritizing his two cats over himself and his partner. Related posts: a...
Spoon & Tamago
Three Art Festival to Visit in Japan in the 2nd Half of 2024 Japan’s numerous art festivals have proven to be an effective way of luring domestic and...
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6 months ago
Japan’s numerous art festivals have proven to be an effective way of luring domestic and international tourists out of popular destinations and into rural parts of Japan they would have otherwise not visited. The poster child is perhaps the Setouchi Triennale, whose combination...
Londonist
Enchanting Chocolate Shops In London, For When You Need A Cocoa Fix Top-notch chocolatiers across town.
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 10 Least Visited U.S. National Parks and How to Visit
a year ago
Londonist
Holy Immersive Pop-Up! You Can Visit The Batcave At This Free Batman Experience Feat. costumes, props and vehicles from the movies.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Where's WHS? I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so...
a year ago
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a year ago
I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so I went to Canary Wharf instead. Except it turned out there isn't a Canary Wharf branch, there hasn't been for years, despite Google telling me it existed and was open. I did some...
Londonist
London Almost Had Another Public Aquarium - In Silvertown Docks Ever heard of 'Biota!'?
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Review: What It’s Like to Fly JetBlue to Paris
a year ago
diamond geezer
Whitehall WHITEHALL £140   London's Monopoly Streets WHITEHALL Colour group: pink Purchase price:...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
WHITEHALL £140   London's Monopoly Streets WHITEHALL Colour group: pink Purchase price: £140 Rent: £10 Length: 500m Borough: Westminster Postcode: SW1 Whitehall is one of the most famous and historic streets in London but has been tucked away on the cheap-to-middling side of...
Londonist
Get Toasty In This King's Cross Sauna For Just £6 A Session Slow Motion Sauna is in town for three weeks.
11 months ago
Londonist
20+ Cheery Things To Do In London In January 2024 Events to get you through the dark winter days.
11 months ago
Londonist
Doctor Who TARDIS And Sculpture Appear On South Bank See David Tennant regenerate into Ncuti Gutwa... and back again.
a year ago
diamond geezer
The rising price of the double issue Radio Times The Christmas double issue Radio Times has been published. cover price has gone up again. (and 50...
a week ago
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The Christmas double issue Radio Times has been published. cover price has gone up again. (and 50 years ago, just 16p) The data: 1974 16p, 1975 20p, 1976 22p, 1977 26p, 1978 26p, 1979 30p, 1980 36p, 1981 50p, 1982 50p, 1983 56p, 1984 60p, 1985 64p, 1986 70p, 1987 74p, 1988...
The Forney Flyer
More From Liberia I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've really been enjoying being busy helping with the MAF flight operations in Liberia.  Shortly after I landed at a remote location one day, our other aircraft, piloted by Ulrich Müeller, also landed (below) at the same airstrip. I was about to load up two medical patients...
Spoon & Tamago
Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings of Metallic Objects by Kohei Ohmori Something must have come over me, says Kohei Ohmori, reflecting on the 280 hours or roughly 5 months...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Something must have come over me, says Kohei Ohmori, reflecting on the 280 hours or roughly 5 months spent drawing a hyper realistic composition of a metallic bolt and nut using just pencils. The 30-year old artist, who has publicly discussed his struggles with OCD (obsessive...
AFAR Media - Travel...
17+ Crowd-Free Things to Do in Paris This Summer
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Premier Yachting in The British Virgin Islands
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Tumi-Isi Wooden Stacking Rocks Designed by Nara-based design studio A4, tumi-isi (積み石; ‘stacking stones’ in Japanese) are a set of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Designed by Nara-based design studio A4, tumi-isi (積み石; ‘stacking stones’ in Japanese) are a set of 5 blocks individually hand bevelled into asymmetrical shapes by local artisans. No two sets are identical. These tactile objects are meant to nourish your sense of balance and...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 20-21 January 2024 Two words: cheese market.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Midsummer Day Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June. And midsummer is also 6th August. astronomical definition...
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5 months ago
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June. And midsummer is also 6th August. astronomical definition of summer is the period between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. Summer is 94 days long so we're looking for the 47th day after the solstice and that's 6th August....
Herbert Lui
On lateness and imperfection At my first job, I realized that I’d missed a meeting invite and my team had started without me. I...
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a week ago
At my first job, I realized that I’d missed a meeting invite and my team had started without me. I was early in my career, and hesitant to join the meeting late in-person. I felt embarrassed and, without knowing it, I started beating myself up. How could I be so inept? If I could...
Londonist
20 Pithy Ian Nairn Quotes About Modern London Buildings "A joke title for a joke of a building."
a year ago
Londonist
Get 2-For-1 Tickets To This Cracker Of A Christmas Fair Timeless festive cheer, guaranteed.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Renaming the Overground, step by step The introduction of the six new London Overground names is finally, tangibly, underway. But the...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
The introduction of the six new London Overground names is finally, tangibly, underway. But the changes are being phased in, as befits a seriously complex operation, with some happening now, some delayed until next month or next year, and some kicked far into the future because...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
9 months ago
diamond geezer
The news from your borough The News From Your Borough If I went to your borough yesterday, here's some news from...
a year ago
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a year ago
The News From Your Borough If I went to your borough yesterday, here's some news from it. Barnet Brent Camden the same name for a pub they've rebranded on Camden High Street so I'm suddenly much less impressed. Also Tripadvisor reckons that Brondes Age is #14,524 of 15,760...
diamond geezer
Everyman Stratford International Stratford has a new cinema. Everyman and can be found in the highrise nomansland that separates...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Stratford has a new cinema. Everyman and can be found in the highrise nomansland that separates Westfield from the Olympic Park, now officially known as Stratford Cross. It's housed in a brushed metal box tucked beneath 20 floors of Grade A office space. It has three screens,...
diamond geezer
PR bumf round-up I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to....
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
I haven't whinged about unsolicited PR emails for a while because I don't get as many as I used to. But they still trickle in, generally from hopeful marketeers with a press release to regurgitate or a plea to amplify some sponsored content. We don't do that here, thanks. Zarya...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best New Restaurants in Toronto
7 months ago
Londonist
Save The Crystal Palace Radio Controlled Car Track! Did you know about this RC circuit? Well it's under threat.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Where in London? It's Where in London? time again. You can see the photos individually here: NW NE SW...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It's Where in London? time again. You can see the photos individually here: NW NE SW SE Answers NW: ???Vanbrough Crescent, Lime Tree Park, Northolt UB5--> NE: Stansgate Road shops, Dagenham RM10 SW: Heatherlea Grove, The Hamptons, Worcester Park KT4 SE: The Beck, High Broom...
diamond geezer
BBC Breaking News alerts Like millions of Britons I have the BBC News app on my phone, and like millions of Britons I get...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Like millions of Britons I have the BBC News app on my phone, and like millions of Britons I get Breaking News alerts flashed to me on my screen when something happens. But all too often I find myself thinking "That's not breaking news", or even "that's not news", as another...
Spoon & Tamago
Detailed Survey Drawings of Tokyo Hotel Rooms by Kei Endo Kei Endo is an accomplished architect and draughtswoman. And she also enjoys staying at hotels,...
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a year ago
Kei Endo is an accomplished architect and draughtswoman. And she also enjoys staying at hotels, which was the beginning of a wonderful side-hustle that brought together the best of both her worlds, and resulted in a new book deal. Endo reports on the hotels she stays in through...
Londonist
Horizon 22: London's Got A Free New Viewing Gallery - And It's The Tallest In Western Europe Booking opens 20 September.
a year ago
Londonist
5 London Underground Stations That Totally Ripped Off Other Buildings From Berlin to Amsterdam to Moscow.
10 months ago
diamond geezer
Untangling Hackney We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We're not due another tube map until August when the Overground lines get their own names. There's no point replacing paper maps and posters on platforms until then. But the online map on the TfL website is another matter and is often updated between print runs to reflect the...
Londonist
When You Start Seeing Roundels Everywhere One you spot, you just can't stop...
a year ago
Londonist
"We're Bringing Migrant Voices To The London Stage" Foreign Affairs harnesses the power of translation.
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Flood Relief Flying You may remember that I mentioned in a previous blog post a few weeks ago, that there had been...
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over a year ago
You may remember that I mentioned in a previous blog post a few weeks ago, that there had been severe floods in Western Uganda (and other parts of the country) in early-mid May. Well, several weeks later, we were given special permission by various authorities to fly relief...
Londonist
This Free Quentin Blake Exhibition Lands In London At The End Of January You can even buy the artworks.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Poverest This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret Leisure Destination Poverest, the charming outer London suburb handily located on the Chislehurst Road, where a good time is always on offer. [map] Ask anyone in Poverest where...
Londonist
London's Smallest Art Gallery Is In A Phone Box Outside The British Museum You can buy the art, too.
a year ago
Londonist
New Barbie Exhibition To Open In London Next Year Hi Barbie!
a year ago
Londonist
Pick Your Own Christmas Tree At These Festive Farms In And Around London Christmas jumpers optional. Wellies recommended.
a year ago
Londonist
That Time Lord Onslow's Monkey Escaped Onto The Tube Simian crisis at Barbican.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Preparing rail fares for contactless The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing. In today's post I'm going...
a year ago
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a year ago
The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing. In today's post I'm going to focus on fares between Southend Central and Fenchurch Street to keep things simple but similar changes apply to other journeys. Also this kind of model is rolling out on other...
Londonist
Miracle At Henrietta: The Christmassiest Bar In London It's Kiiiiiiiitschmas!
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Twenty Two Artists Created Over 120 Artworks Throughout the Tokyo Offices of GREE When Japanese internet media company GREE relocated offices last year, they wanted to do something...
a year ago
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a year ago
When Japanese internet media company GREE relocated offices last year, they wanted to do something special; something that would capture the unique creativity and artistic drive behind many of their employees. So the company worked with art agency TokyoDex and the architecural...
diamond geezer
Interview with a Bus Rescheduler An interview with Liam Fennell, TfL Bus Rescheduler DG: Hi Liam, tell us what you do. Liam: Hi, I'm...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
An interview with Liam Fennell, TfL Bus Rescheduler DG: Hi Liam, tell us what you do. Liam: Hi, I'm the guy who slows the buses down. DG: I've always wondered who that was. Liam: It's quite a responsibility! DG: So how does that work? Liam: You know when you're on a bus, pootling...
Londonist
Ice Cream And Gelato Galore At Covent Garden's Frozen Festival Feat. a Wes Anderson-inspired pop up.
a year ago
Londonist
One Of The First Victorians Born Was Called 'Hyde Park' Apparently.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Best, Most Beautiful Places to Visit in Portugal
a year ago
diamond geezer
The refillable water bottle tube map If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
If you were wondering what symbol would be added to the tube map next, how about a refillable water bottle? It's always obvious retrospectively. Overground network, hence the map is titled "London Overground stations with free drinking water fountains". The new symbol thus...
diamond geezer
Blogged September 30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5...
a year ago
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a year ago
30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5 years, i.e. I've done 60 of them, so to still be getting 50 comments on the latest one is quite something, thanks. Sat 2: I broke the news that tube platform tickets were being...
Londonist
Stratford Market Village To Reopen - Following Shock Closure In January "We are so glad to be back."
8 months ago
Londonist
We Talk To John Rogers, Filmmaker And Author Of Welcome To New London A true London legend.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Reasons to Island-Hop in Hawai‘i
3 months ago
Londonist
Easter 2024 Transport In London: Which Train And Tubes Are Running, And Which Stations Are Closed? Got an egg hunt to go to? Read this first
9 months ago
Londonist
That Kiosk Outside The National Portrait Gallery Is About To Reopen As A Cafe From Victorian toilet block, to ticket booth... and now a bougie cafe!
a year ago
Londonist
Support A Great Cause At The Guildhall's Spectacular Christmas Market! Festive feasting, fantastic gifts, and medieval grandeur.
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
And Here We Go Trying Yet Again... There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last June, with indications that I would start consistently blogging again, and then I disappeared... again. I could tell you that life has been super crazy busy, and that by...
Londonist
Brewery Taprooms In London: A List Of Every Single One Of 'Em Have we got brews for you.
a year ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 26 February-3 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Highlights of New York Winter Jazzfest, January, 2025
a week ago
Londonist
Burns Night 2024 In London: Parties, Suppers And Ceilidhs To Celebrate This Year Kilt up and raise a dram to Robert Burns on 25 January.
11 months ago
Londonist
Why The Hammersmith & City Is (Arguably) London's Newest Tube Line It's only been around since 1990 (sort of).
10 months ago
Londonist
Dickens Tourism In London Has Been A Thing Since Victorian Times And you won't believe who started it, either...
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why You Should Visit Greater Palm Springs
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Confidence vs. trusting the process “This might not work,” Seth Godin writes in his blog post, “Out on a limb.” (It’s one of my...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
“This might not work,” Seth Godin writes in his blog post, “Out on a limb.” (It’s one of my favorites, alongside “Talker’s Block.” ) It’s fascinating to see this idea make it into a key part of his book The Practice, which I recently picked up and find myself liking a lot. If you...
diamond geezer
Vote London 2024 There are now less than 20 weeks until the London Mayoral elections and most of the top candidates...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are now less than 20 weeks until the London Mayoral elections and most of the top candidates have laid out their key policies. Sadiq hasn't, his personal website is still a 1-slogan void, but as the incumbent it's easy to imagine what 'more of the same' might mean. Nobody...
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 2) Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here. The Hot Spring...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here. The Hot Spring Act of 1948 Lest you think any old well could be an onsen, the Japanese government has very clear rules on what can be called an onsen. These are
AFAR Media - Travel...
Best Places to Shop and Eat In Los Angeles
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Rooms Through TIme The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear...
5 months ago
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The Museum of the Home in Hoxton has evolved again. It used to be the Geffrye Museum, a linear celebration of historic middle-class interiors. In 1998 it extended beyond the almshouses into a loopy extension with cafe and gift shop. In 2021 they added a thematic basement, shifted...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Northern Lights Could Appear in the Lower 48 This Week
a year ago
diamond geezer
Unusual exhibitions in ancient buildings Unusual exhibitions in ancient buildings Unusual exhibition: The Origin of the Faeces: Poo from the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Unusual exhibitions in ancient buildings Unusual exhibition: The Origin of the Faeces: Poo from the Zoo Ancient building: the stone foundations of former Kingston Bridge (1170) caveat: more a structure than a building, but very definitely ancient on display for the first time...
AFAR Media - Travel...
3 Great California Travel Itineraries to Inspire Anyone
10 months ago
diamond geezer
London's highest lettered house What's London's highest lettered house? Sorry, that's a bad question. I don't mean the highest...
a year ago
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a year ago
What's London's highest lettered house? Sorry, that's a bad question. I don't mean the highest above sea level, not like the highest station I blogged about on Thursday. And letters aren't generally higher than other letters, F isn't higher than E, it's more an alphabetical...
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Are the Most Endangered Historic Sites in America
a year ago
Londonist
The Passion Of Jesus: Free Play Returns To Trafalgar Square On Good Friday 2024 Crowds of 20,000 expected to watch a cast of 100.
9 months ago
Londonist
The Glass Heart: A Smashing Exhibition At Two Temple Place Intriguing artwork in a stunning building.
10 months ago
Londonist
Plans For Redevelopment Of Waterloo Station Revealed New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
9 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Pied à Terre, Fitzrovia Since the closure of Le Gavroche, Pied à Terre is now the London restaurant which has held at least...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Since the closure of Le Gavroche, Pied à Terre is now the London restaurant which has held at least one Michelin star for the longest time. It first won the accolade shortly after it opened back in 1991, a time when fine dining meant French dining, and the term "gastropub" was...
Londonist
Eid In Trafalgar Square: Muslim Celebrations Return This April End of Ramadan marked in style.
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Hunstanton Seaside postcard: Hunstanton Hunstanton is a seaside town at the northwest tip of Norfolk and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Seaside postcard: Hunstanton Hunstanton is a seaside town at the northwest tip of Norfolk and reputedly the only resort on the East Coast that faces west. It's like Great Yarmouth in that it boasts amusements, tattoos and chippies, but also smaller, newer, remoter, genteeler,...
diamond geezer
SL10 Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new outer orbital bus route yesterday, a peripheral dash connecting the boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet. new Superloop service, the previous four merely being existing routes...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 27 November-3 December 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Londonist
An A-Z Of The London Underground X was tricky but we think we sorted it.
11 months ago
Londonist
TfL Launches A New Podcast Hosted By Tim Dunn Guests include Tube Mapper and, er, Rylan.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Littlehampton → Shoreham Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Walking the coast of Britain can be a tortuous meandering slog round umpteen bays and inlets or it can be a simple stroll along a gentle curving shoreline. The coast of Sussex is mostly the latter which makes it ideal for a good long coastal walk. At the weekend I headed to the...
Londonist
Stunning Images At Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2023 National Maritime Museum shows off the cosmos.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
The Evolution of Meiji Era Craftsmanship, On Full Display in Tokyo It’s hard to overstate the cataclysmic impact that the Meiji Restoriation had on Japan. The Meiji...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s hard to overstate the cataclysmic impact that the Meiji Restoriation had on Japan. The Meiji period, defined as the period between 1868 and 1912, followed what was nearly 300 years of almost complete isolation from the globe. Craftsmen and artists who had previously served...
diamond geezer
Southwark 25 Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The...
a month ago
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a month ago
Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The platforms are much like many of the others on the Jubilee line extension, but the concourse between them is unique. Step through and you enter a long cylindrical space on two...
AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Know About Europe’s 2024 ETIAS Entry Program
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 March 2024 Charity gigs, a glamorous speakeasy, and a boat race on the river.
9 months ago
Londonist
Astounding Animal Statues By Gillie And Marc Near London Bridge A Wild Life for Wildlife.
a year ago
Londonist
London Hat Walk: Scores Of Fashionable Folk Will Parade Around Town This Weekend Hat's the way uh-huh, uh-huh...
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Wanding Juniors #10004 ✅ Oddities What the hell is wanding? Why does it need to be done to juniors? Who is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
#10004 ✅ Oddities What the hell is wanding? Why does it need to be done to juniors? Who is the creepy character on the left? Is that a grinning CCTV camera? And why does that teddy bear look so pleased? This is our surveillance society gone mad! young supporters of West Ham...
Herbert Lui
Greatness means avoiding stupid mistakes consistently Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest...
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a week ago
Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest consistency isn’t in doing brilliant things but avoiding stupid ones. Every mistake puts you in hard mode, forcing you to make up lost ground.” In some lines of work, a person must...
Londonist
Secrets Of Tower Bridge A behind the scenes tour of one of London's great icons.
12 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Biltmore Arizona: an Iconic Southwest Resort
5 months ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 18-24 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
9 months ago
Londonist
An 'Accidentally Wes Anderson' Exhibition Is Coming To West London So. Much. Pastel.
a year ago
Londonist
Dozens Of Vintage Boats Moor Up In Central London This September The (free!) Classic Boat Festival is back at St Katharine Docks.
a year ago
Londonist
Where To Get Your Fill Of The Best Food And Drink In Islington Marvellous macarons, superb sushi... and Karen's Diner.
9 months ago
Londonist
London Now Has Its First Statue Of Queen Elizabeth II Bronze likeness unveiled at Royal Albert Hall.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Explore Maine’s Outdoors and Dining—a Local's Guide
4 months ago
Londonist
Why Is There A Huge Mural Of Rembrandt On Mare Street, Hackney? It's the return of the London Mural Festival.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Pudding Mill Lane 10 The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today. Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today. Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014 and remains unnecessarily enormous. Caveat: The station which opened 10 years ago was a rebuild paid for by Crossrail, because the original sat on the precise site where purple...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 11 Best Airbnbs for Stargazing
a year ago
diamond geezer
QEOP development check Ten years ago, when Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park fully opened, I showed you this graphic showing all...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Ten years ago, when Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park fully opened, I showed you this graphic showing all the adjacent parcels of land proposed for development. Ignore the blues because they were already up and running in 2014, specifically the East Village (previously the Athletes...
Londonist
Get Free Entry To The London Dungeon This Monday To cheer you up on 'Blue Monday'.
11 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
40 Maltby Street, Bermondsey 40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special category of restaurants used as a kind of shorthand amongst food-obsessed types in order to prove they know what they're talking about. Like Quality Chop House and the French...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 4-10 September 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Nineteen Years of Joy, and Counting! Nineteen years ago today, I married my best friend, Joy.  One year later our first child was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nineteen years ago today, I married my best friend, Joy.  One year later our first child was born... ... and well before his first birthday, we were commissioned by our church to head to the mission field. That was 17 years ago, and we've spent the vast majority of our...
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Best U.S. National Parks for Stargazing
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
This Halloween, a Zombie Shinkansen Will Travel Between Tokyo and Osaka Want a taste of the frights but too busy to go to a haunted house? How about a haunted train? This...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Want a taste of the frights but too busy to go to a haunted house? How about a haunted train? This year, a Tokaido shinkansen, in what is being called the world’s first zombie bullet train, will travel between Tokyo and Osaka. The stage will be set in car 16 of the “Nozomi 435”...
Londonist
Take A Tour Of The Magnificent Palace Of Westminster This Autumn Ahead of the State Opening in November.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Places for Art, Music, and Theater in Asheville
a year ago
Londonist
Trivia About Other Places Called London Around The World Including one which is FREAKISHLY similar to our own London.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
An Exhibition of Plushie, Small Disappointments An onigiri smushed at the bottom of your bag. Water splashing off a spoon. Burnt toast. Life is full...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
An onigiri smushed at the bottom of your bag. Water splashing off a spoon. Burnt toast. Life is full of small disappointments. But helping us see the humor in it all is Makosun, a Japanese maker of weird plushies—their words, not ours—who renders all these small disappointments...
Londonist
In Pictures: Notting Hill Carnival 2023 Relive the magic, or see what you missed out on.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
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Two London suburbs (and thus two tube stations) are named after lumps of rock at the side of the road. Let's visit both. The Weald Stone, Wealdstone What? The Weald Stone is a humpy lump of sarsen stone approximately the same length as a sleeping human. Where? Not in the centre...
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Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of North-Western Kyushu, is named after the migratory path that whales swam. Beginning in the 1700s, Yobuko prospered as a whaling town, birthing the idiom, a single whale flourishes...
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Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without...
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TfL's annual fare rise was announced last yesterday. And it's no fare rise at all. "The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced bold action to freeze TfL fares this year, to support Londoners struggling with the cost of living and London’s recovery from the pandemic....
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The first full week of roadworks at the Bow Roundabout has seen lengthy queues and a bit more drilling. The queues were at their worst on Wednesday when an additional set of roadworks temporarily afflicted Tredegar Road, at one point stretching over three quarters of a mile along...
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SL5 Route SL5: Bromley North - Croydon Town Centre Length of journey: 7 miles, 35 minutes Superloop...
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Route SL5: Bromley North - Croydon Town Centre Length of journey: 7 miles, 35 minutes Superloop sprang into action yesterday, and it's an oddity. Firstly it's the shortest of the seven circuitous routes. Secondly it doesn't serve any major centres of population other than at its...
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photos by Katsuhiro Aoki courtesy Same Picture Company For all that’s written and said about the difficulty of starting a business in Japan, there is one exception. The country’s lax zoning laws make it particularly easy to convert a section of your home into a cafe or eatery....
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Transport Freedom I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like....
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I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like. For a one-off fee I can roam on all TfL modes of transport in my chosen zones. I can go to Woolwich, then West Ealing, then Wood Green if I so choose. I can change my mind mid...
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A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen to start with London's oldest unchanged bus route, the 24's north/south run from Hampstead down to Pimlico. Rest assured I won't be writing a full travelogue because I did that...
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All images © Osamu Morishita Architect and Associates Built on reclaimed land that seamlessly blends the expanse of the sea with the majestic mountains, ‘See-Sea Park‘ is a new commercial complex spanning over an area of 10,800 square meters in Oimachi, Fukui. The structure aims...
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Greater London contains around 2000 National Grid squares, each 1km by 1km in size. What I like to do, very occasionally, is pick one at random, visit it and write about what's there. Which random grid square did I pick? TQ2492 Where is it? Frith Manor in the borough of Barnet,...
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There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving talented but cash-strapped teams a chance to test their market and their cooking skills without the risk and stress of opening a completely brand new restaurant. Over the years, you will...
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Old Kent Road OLD KENT ROAD £60   London's Monopoly Streets OLD KENT ROAD Colour group: brown Purchase price:...
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OLD KENT ROAD £60   London's Monopoly Streets OLD KENT ROAD Colour group: brown Purchase price: £60 Rent: £2 Length: 1¾ miles Boroughs: Southwark and Lewisham Postcodes: SE1, SE15 Old Kent Road, which is also the only location south of the river. Originally this was Watling...
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My review of 2024 It's the time of year for looking back so here are some of the unblogged places I've been in...
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It's the time of year for looking back so here are some of the unblogged places I've been in 2024. Beddington: the view from that bench is truly miserable Biggin Hill: I powered up Polesteeple Hill for nothing Blackwall Tunnel: wow, just look at the new one Bounds Green: every...
diamond geezer
Living on an airfield London contains a lot of former airfields. Hornchurch. This was formerly RAF Hornchurch, a large...
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London contains a lot of former airfields. Hornchurch. This was formerly RAF Hornchurch, a large airfield in the Ingrebourne valley which played a vital role in defending the eastern side of the capital from German bombers. It first came into service in 1915 when it was known...
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Approaching Rugby by train 20 years ago, what you'd have noticed out of the window was a vast array of very tall masts clustered across the fields to one side. They were even more prominent from the A5 on the far side of the site, equally visible from the M1 and perhaps best seen...
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WHITECHAPEL ROAD £60   London's Monopoly Streets WHITECHAPEL ROAD Colour group: brown Purchase price: £60 Rent: £4 Length: 1 kilometre Borough: Tower Hamlets Postcodes: E1 Whitechapel Road would be the first square. Instead it's the second brown, the more expensive of the...
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It's all downhill from here. This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A Conservative party proven long-term incompetent by a sequence of abysmal Prime Ministers, a last minute intervention by Nigel Farage draining support away from the right, the Lib Dems...
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Often around this time of year I go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground - five days of quizzes, quirks, commentary and obscure statistics. Well not this year. I should warn you that I haven't actually ridden the cablecar while researching these fifteen...
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These white and intricate forms appear to be the work of mother nature, sculpted over hundreds and thousands of years. Instead, they’re the work of Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki, who painstakingly shapes and assembles each prick and piece by hand. And in doing so, she’s...
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Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured routes W12 and W14. I wrote about the changes last week, and how TfL's information strategy relied substantially on a very complicated map. I went back yesterday to see how the...
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My friend Peter started posting at LinkedIn a couple of years ago. He noticed that while people who followed him appreciated his advice, what they remembered most were his stories—about how he met his co-founder and started an agency, how they spun out new companies, and his move...
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Premature poppying We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel...
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We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting ex-service personnel and their families, and that their annual Poppy Appeal is an inspirational fund-raising exercise.    We can all agree that the Royal British Legion does excellent work supporting...
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For better or worse, every moment spent eating out in London is an education, and on a warm Tuesday evening last week I went to Knightsbridge to learn about Nanyang cuisine. It has a somewhat fluid definition, as these things often do, but generally refers to food from SE China...
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I have not yet faced the coming of The Limit. It comes to most of us, some sooner than others, a one-way, permanent restriction after which life is never quite so free again. I'm not trying to be maudlin here, nor am I building up to the revelation that The Limit has come to...
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nonetheless In January 2020 I wrote a post listing all the places I'd bought a new Pet Shop Boys album. It...
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In January 2020 I wrote a post listing all the places I'd bought a new Pet Shop Boys album. It started with me buying Please on cassette from Our Price in Watford High Street on 24th March 1986, and ended as follows. Hotspot (24th January 2020) Bought from: Sister Ray, Berwick...
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Danglewatch (2) Art on the Dangleway The Line, a meridian-based public art walk (which doesn't truly follow the meridian but it makes for a good name). Squatting on a small pontoon beside the northern terminal is the quirky sculpture Bird Boy by Laura Ford, a figure of a lost...