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Londonist
"As Long As 13 London Buses": The Curious, Spurious Comparisons We Find In The Media What as tall as six Nelson's Columns?
9 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2024 Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite...
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a month ago
Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite Japanese festival, Jimi Halloween, is on full display. Mundane Halloween, as we coined it back in 2018, is when people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained....
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in May 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2024 1) The three Elizabeth line ticket offices...
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6 months ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2024 1) The three Elizabeth line ticket offices which sold the fewest tickets in 2023 were Acton Main Line (2736), Hanwell (3375) and Maryland (4037). That's about 10 tickets per day. 2) The installation of new brighter lighting...
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The 9 Best Beaches in the Turks and Caicos to Visit
a year ago
Londonist
Literary Footprints 2024: Walking Tours Around Literary London Love books? Love London? Love this.
10 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Tentacle-Inspired Leather Accessories Handcrafted by Cokeco Cokeco are a Fukuoka-based design duo who create leather accessories inspired by the natural...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Cokeco are a Fukuoka-based design duo who create leather accessories inspired by the natural curiosities of the world around them. Lately, their attention has been focused on sealife: specifically, our multi-limbed mollusc friends whose tentacles provide endless inspiration for...
diamond geezer
Dangleway Week (1) Danglewatch (2) Art on the Dangleway The Line, a meridian-based public art walk (which doesn't truly...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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
The Top Exhibitions To See In London In October 2023 Beauty, Manga, miniatures and a whole load of art fairs.
a year ago
Londonist
Greenwich's Old Town Hall To Become Flats And Viewing Gallery Art deco landmark gets green light for regeneration.
9 months ago
Londonist
The Age-Old Ritual Of Chair Lifting On Easter Monday Blackheath Morris Men in Greenwich again this Easter.
9 months ago
Londonist
Sing With Dogs In Church At Battersea's Barking Mad 2023 Carol Concert An un-fur-gettable Christmas event in London.
a year ago
Londonist
London Transport Museum Is Throwing A Special Friday Late For Students London Calling takes place on 6 October.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Far From Super Loop On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
On bus shelters across London TfL are keenly advertising the Superloop. The poster shows a bus, a rainbow burst of pastel colours and the legend The Superloop Is Coming. The given date is Spring 2024 and it's described as a commitment by the Mayor to improve public transport in...
Londonist
London Overground Lines Get New Names And Colours The Liberty line?
10 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 13-14 January 2024 Circus, comedy, drag, live music and more.
11 months 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
"My Obsession With London's Modernist Council Estates" The beauty of the capital's social housing.
9 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Day Guided tours, river trips and Christmas lunch.
a year ago
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The Best Things to Do in Abu Dhabi
a year ago
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The Alpine Charms and Traditions of Bregenzerwald
a year ago
diamond geezer
2025 fares -->TfL's annual fare rise was announced yesterday. It's good news for buses and bad news for...
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a week ago
-->TfL's annual fare rise was announced yesterday. It's good news for buses and bad news for trains. GOOD: "The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced that he will freeze bus and tram fares for an historic sixth time next year, meaning Londoners continue to pay the...
diamond geezer
The Brockley Three Peaks A Nice Walk: The Brockley Three Peaks (5 miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A Nice Walk: The Brockley Three Peaks (5 miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, triple-summited, great views, waterside stretches, plenty of up and down, easily reached, all-weather surfaces, a bit of history, occasional dead people, refreshment opportunities, two...
diamond geezer
The exclaves of Sutton This is Saffron Close, one of the exclaves* of Sutton. exclave, noun (plural exclaves) A portion...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This is Saffron Close, one of the exclaves* of Sutton. exclave, noun (plural exclaves) A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part. It's a very ordinary late 20th century cul-de-sac, not far from the tram stop at Therapia Lane in the vicinity of Mitcham...
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Ashley English’s Favorite Things to Do in Asheville
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Stratford & Bow election roundup Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Stratford & Bow election roundup my constituency? Leaflets yes • Uma Kumaran (Labour) A letter from Keir with his six pledges, minimal promises. Looks like they sent out millions of these. • Halima Khan (Workers Party) Roughly-folded and left sticking out of all our...
Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
11 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 30-31 December 2023 The best ways to spend the last weekend of 2023 in the capital.
12 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged October 31 unblogged things I did in October Tue 1: Two new developments in Barking & Dagenham are...
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31 unblogged things I did in October Tue 1: Two new developments in Barking & Dagenham are over-egging transport links in their roadside marketing. Barking Riverside says 'Perfectly connected' when the reality is a half-hourly boat, a train to Barking or non-express buses....
Londonist
A Map Of Southwark Place Name Origins The etymology of the London Borough Southwark.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Waverley This is Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer. She's currently on a two week foray...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This is Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle steamer. She's currently on a two week foray up and down the Thames Estuary and adjacent coasts. And if you'd been in Gravesend on Sunday evening you could have enjoyed a two-hour voyage up the estuary to Tower Bridge for just...
diamond geezer
Thames Water "Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally we wouldn't have water companies at all, we'd have one competent publicly owned authority, but we are where we are and this is the shitshow we've ended up with. So I wondered, how...
Cheese and Biscuits
Kachori, Elephant and Castle There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
Spoon & Tamago
Yoko Tada Began Painting in her 80s. At 100 She’s Publishing Her First Book “natsu no prelude” (prelude of the summer) by Yoko Tada won honorable mention last year from the...
a year ago
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a year ago
“natsu no prelude” (prelude of the summer) by Yoko Tada won honorable mention last year from the Japan Watercolor Association The painter Yoko Tada is having what some would call “a moment.” Last year her work was recognized by the Japan Watercolor Association, an organization...
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Where You Can Explore the World's Rivers And Protect Them
a year ago
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in April 2024 20 things we learned from TfL FoI requests in April 2024 1) The annual operating cost for the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
20 things we learned from TfL FoI requests in April 2024 1) The annual operating cost for the Woolwich Ferry is £8.9 million. 2) In 2021 there were 305km of bus lanes in London, up from 293km in 2011. 3) Tfl spent £282,945.43 advertising this year's Fares Freeze on posters, in...
Londonist
An Airport In Hyde Park? It Could Have Happened 1920s proposal envisaged a VERY central aerodrome.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Icoma Foldable Electric Bike Inspired by Japanese Transformable Toys The moment we saw this foldable electric bike, something awakened our inner child. We couldn’t quite...
a year ago
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a year ago
The moment we saw this foldable electric bike, something awakened our inner child. We couldn’t quite put our finger on it bit it was a feeling akin to seeing a brand new toy in a toy shop. It turns out that the origin story of the Icoma Electric Bike is very much a part of...
diamond geezer
2024 fares TfL's annual fare rise was announced last yesterday. And it's no fare rise at all. "The Mayor of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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....
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 27 November-3 December 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Londonist
New 'Eurostar Snow' Service Will Whisk Londoners To Ski Resorts This Winter News comes after rumours that ski trains would end.
a year ago
Londonist
Previously Off-Limits Areas Of Buckingham Palace To Open To The Public Including the room behind that world-famous balcony.
8 months ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 1-7 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
11 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Toba, St James It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
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The Best Outdoor Destinations for Every Kind of Traveler
6 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Wakuni Cafe: New Tokyo Cafe Made from 700 Bronze Plates Salvaged from Hayatani Shrine the wakuni cafe, which opens January 19, 2024, is inside a 50-year old renovated building Opening in...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
the wakuni cafe, which opens January 19, 2024, is inside a 50-year old renovated building Opening in the Tokyo neighborhood of Higashimurayama this month is Wakuni Cafe, a new destination that embodies history, craftsmanship and a spirit of reusing old materials. The exterior of...
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Where to See Music & Performing Arts in Asheville, NC
a year ago
Londonist
9 Challenge Events In London In 2024 To Sign Up For Right Now New year, new challenge!
11 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Audley, Mayfair I ended up in the Audley, newly refurbished and reimagined gastropub in Mayfair, rather by accident...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I ended up in the Audley, newly refurbished and reimagined gastropub in Mayfair, rather by accident on Saturday, and I'm afraid I didn't set out with my usual forensic (ha!) bloggery attitude to proceedings. I wasn't planning on having lunch out at all, but walking down Mount St...
diamond geezer
Tower Hamlets Town Hall Over the years I've been round ten London borough town halls as part of Open House but never my own....
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the years I've been round ten London borough town halls as part of Open House but never my own. That's because Tower Hamlets' was a hired fortress close to the mouth of the Blackwall Tunnel and no great architectural shakes. But the council's just moved into a new base in...
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These Airlines Make Flying Easier for Travelers With Autism
a year ago
Londonist
Review: Blockbuster Disney Exhibition Digs Deep To Deliver The Magic Fans will love this centenary show.
a year ago
Londonist
Rumble In The Jungle Rematch Arrives In London Take your place ringside in this limited-run immersive show.
a year ago
diamond geezer
The News From Norfolk I'm in Norfolk all this week, so expect a mild dose of The News From Norfolk Norfolk has more...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I'm in Norfolk all this week, so expect a mild dose of The News From Norfolk Norfolk has more Labour MPs than Conservative MPs. That's very unusual in what's normally true blue territory, indeed it hasn't happened since 1945. What's even more unusual is that Norfolk now has MPs...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 25-31 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
9 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Japanese Designer New Year’s Cards of 2024 It’s been a rough start to the new year for Japan as one disaster begets another. We are of course...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
It’s been a rough start to the new year for Japan as one disaster begets another. We are of course talking about the evolving situation at Haneda airport, as well as the Noto Peninsula. Our hearts go out to everyone affected but we also want to highlight the many heroes of the...
Spoon & Tamago
3D Printing and Traditional Wood Joinery Techniques Give Life to the Tsuginote Tea House all photos by Eiichi Yoshioka courtesy Kei Atsumi Japanese wood joinery dates back to the seventh...
a year ago
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a year ago
all photos by Eiichi Yoshioka courtesy Kei Atsumi Japanese wood joinery dates back to the seventh century and is a craftsmanship technique that involves complicated, interlocking wooden joints that form bonds without the use of nails, screws or adhesives. Practical use of these...
diamond geezer
Six free exhibitions in north central London Six free temporary exhibitions in north central London (I'll rank these at the end, but the best...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Six free temporary exhibitions in north central London (I'll rank these at the end, but the best one comes first) Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds at: RIBA, Portland Place from: 10am to 5pm (not Sunday) until: 29 March cottage melded into a rocky Leicestershire...
Londonist
The Big Issue Seller Outside St Paul's Who Became An Icon Of The Occupy Protests A very different Christmas play for you to watch this festive season.
a year ago
Londonist
The Biggest Exhibitions To See In London This Winter Over 30 excellent exhibitions to choose from
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Caravel, Regent's Canal It makes perfect sense that with London commercial property rents sky-high, wiley restaurateurs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It makes perfect sense that with London commercial property rents sky-high, wiley restaurateurs should look further afield and towards quirkier, more unusual spaces to set up shop. I have had mixed experiences dining on a boat (the London Shell Company: great fun; our office Xmas...
Londonist
Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who Lives Where in TV, Books, Games and Movies? New book maps the worlds of fiction.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Lulu's, Herne Hill Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thank the lord for the lengthening days, for lifting the spirits and lightening the mood and - most importantly from my point of view - dramatically improving the quality of food photography on this blog. I'm sure Lulu's would be a lovely, cozy little spot even in the depths of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Golden Isles: Barrier Islands & Port City Paradise
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Greatness means avoiding stupid mistakes consistently Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest...
a week ago
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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
12 Predictions For London In 2024 What can we expect from the next 12 months?
11 months ago
Londonist
More Tube Strikes For London This October Dispute over staff cuts and working conditions.
a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 1-7 April 2024 Our top stories from the last seven days.
8 months ago
Londonist
"Every Year We Do A Free Christmas Day Dinner At Our Wimbledon Pub, For People On Their Own" Almost 200 people come to the Alex on 25 Dec.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Dream Xi'an, Tower Hill There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to have popped up in the last decade or so, I assume alongside an influx of Chinese students attending the many nearby high-profile universities and colleges, because I'm fairly sure...
Spoon & Tamago
All Aboard the Deer Train to Nara all photos by mareiii04 Nara is known for several things including their gorgeous temples and...
a year ago
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a year ago
all photos by mareiii04 Nara is known for several things including their gorgeous temples and exquisite parks. But the historic Japanese city has another major tourist attraction: their devious deer. If you’re heading to Nara, be sure to try and board Kintetsu Railway’s new Deer...
Londonist
London Hotel Rooms With A Serious View Penthouse suites, balconies, and the city spread at your feet.
a year ago
Londonist
The Must-See London Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2024 A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
a year ago
Londonist
The Petrie Museum: Ancient Egypt Without The British Museum Crowds The Bloomsbury museum hidden in UCL.
10 months ago
Londonist
Cycle All Day For £3, As Santander Cycles Introduces New Day Pass We feel a challenge coming on...
11 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Japan Quietly Shines at Milan Design Week Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the biggest names and brands in the design world descend upon the Italian city, which sees its population swell by nearly 25%. Now in its 62nd iteration, the design extravaganza is an...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 6-12 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover the Best Fall Getaways: 3 American Cities You Must Visit
6 months ago
diamond geezer
Good / Not Good GOOD   NOT GOOD
8 months ago
Londonist
See Three New Morphing Sculptures By Nick Hornby Trio of incredible shape-changing sculptures hit town.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Asheville’s Nature Inspires Local Chef, Ashleigh Shanti
a year ago
Londonist
The Best Horror Film Screenings In London For Halloween 2023 Do you like scary movies?
a year ago
Londonist
A Tim Burton Exhibition Is Coming To The Design Museum In 2024 Illustrator, painter, photographer, author - what doesn't he do?
a year ago
One from Nippon
A peek into the world of Japan's electric rice cookers It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
Spoon & Tamago
‘Puddle’ Are a Series of Flower Vessels Inspired by Puddles of Water Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a series of flower vessels that mimic a puddle of water. Using properties of transparency and surface tension, these whimsical vessels create the illusion of a single plant growing...
Londonist
WrapUp London: Donate Your Unused Coat To Someone Who Needs It This Winter A small gesture goes a long way 🙂
a year ago
diamond geezer
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of...
a year ago
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a year ago
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of globally-sourced animals, as well as a conservation hub and a prestige tourist attraction. But it's a bit pricey with tickets costing £27 on weekdays and £31 at weekends, or even more on the...
Spoon & Tamago
Shibuya Unveils Graphics Discouraging Halloween Parties in Their Ward After the tragic and fatal Halloween crowd crush that occured in Seoul last year, Tokyo’s Shibuya...
a year ago
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a year ago
After the tragic and fatal Halloween crowd crush that occured in Seoul last year, Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, which has increasingly become a go-to spot for Halloween parties—often with dangerous consequences—is taking preemptive measures to discourage people from congregating in their...
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A Travel Itinerary Exploring the Roman Empire in Germany
6 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Square Peg, Tunbridge Wells There was an opinion that did the rounds a few years ago, that any restaurant critic needs to have...
a year ago
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a year ago
There was an opinion that did the rounds a few years ago, that any restaurant critic needs to have spent at least some time in a professional kitchen or front of house to be able to pass judgement on anywhere charging the public for dinner. Personally, I think that's rubbish, but...
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Best Countries for Expats to Live Abroad
a year ago
Londonist
"£1 For A Return Fare Since 2003": Brockwell Park's Miniature Railway You can hire it for birthdays, too.
8 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Discover Fukui Sake Along the Kuzuryu River at Eshikoto all images courtesy Furuya Design Eshikoto is a brand created by Nizaemon Ishidaya, proprietor of...
a year ago
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a year ago
all images courtesy Furuya Design Eshikoto is a brand created by Nizaemon Ishidaya, proprietor of the Kokuryu Sake Brewery which was founded in 1804 in the mountains of Fukui. With a motto not dissimilar to the famous quote from Field of Dreams–”if we make good sake, people will...
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Local Artist's Guide to Dallas, Texas
5 months ago
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Experience Richmond's Cultural Heritage
2 months ago
Londonist
How To See London's Christmas Lights By Bus Watch the illuminations roll past, from your moquette throne.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Westminster 25 Silver Jubilee: Westminster Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd...
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9 hours ago
Silver Jubilee: Westminster Westminster's Jubilee line platforms opened 25 years ago today on 22nd December 1999. Westminster station - a clickable choose-your-own adventure (it is genuinely clickable - give it a go!) (1) You have arrived on the westbound Jubilee line...
Spoon & Tamago
New Rent-Free Apartments Aspire to Support Budding Manga Artists a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a model has existed in Japan in which subsidized housing supports manga artists who are early in their career and have not yet established an audience. One of the earliest was the...
Londonist
One Of The First Victorians Born Was Called 'Hyde Park' Apparently.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Havant Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Until yesterday I hadn't been to Havant. Havant is a large town in southeast Hampshire on the way to Portsmouth. They Havant got many old buildings because most of the town burnt in a fire in 1760. Only the church and a row of cottages survived. St Faith's and they found...
Spoon & Tamago
A Glimpse Inside the Whimsical Wooden Miniature Homes of Yukihiro Akama Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place,’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Related posts: Whimsical Wooden Automata by Kazuaki Harada A Wooden Cabin Constructed Locally in the Mountains of Japan Using a 3D...
Londonist
5 Amazing Places To Eat Asian Food In Central London As chosen by chef Jeff Tan.
10 months ago
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London In September 2023 A crystal dinner and chic couture in this month's top shows to see in London.
a year ago
Londonist
Shoreditch Has A New Secret Garden... On A Viaduct Get eye-level with Village Underground's tube trains.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Secret river quiz Congratulations, you've found my secret river quiz. (completed in seven hours, thanks)
a month ago
Spoon & Tamago
School Lunch Provider Creates Manga Milk to Encourage Kids to Finish Their Milk Seki Milk, a Gifu-based provider of milk and other dairy-based products to local schools, had long...
a year ago
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a year ago
Seki Milk, a Gifu-based provider of milk and other dairy-based products to local schools, had long been dealing with an inconvenient truth. A large majority of students—65%, according to their own research— weren’t finishing their milk. This was leading to food loss but also a...
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The Best Iceland Cruises to Book Right Now
a year ago
Londonist
Stratford Sphere Nixed By Mayor: But Where Else Could They Build It? Where to put a giant glowing sphere?
a year ago
Londonist
London's Fear Of The Number 13 Our triskaidekaphobia city.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Unlocking QEOP 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 pedestrian entrances into the park. It wasn't an official list, simply those I'd spotted, numbered in an anti-clockwise direction starting from Westfield. greens were...
Spoon & Tamago
Tamatsukuri Kindergarten’s Renewed Circular Campus Fosters Inquisitive Learning and an Appreciation... Tamatsukuri Kindergarten is a school for early-learning that is located in a forested region of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tamatsukuri Kindergarten is a school for early-learning that is located in a forested region of Japan’s Chiba prefecture. For over 40 years the school has dedicated itself to nourishing the souls, minds and bodies of its pupils. In 2022, the school decided to renew its main...
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In-Depth Review of AutoCamp Zion in Virgin, Utah
a year ago
diamond geezer
The Limit I have not yet faced the coming of The Limit. It comes to most of us, some sooner than others, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
diamond geezer
Tube 160 Treasure Hunt Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Are you at a loose end tomorrow? Do you like looking at station architecture? Would you like a surprise birthday gift from TfL? If the answer to all these questions is yes then why not take part in the Tube 160 Treasure Hunt? You even get to travel round central London for...
Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
9 months ago
Londonist
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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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Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to architecture and design since ancient times. In fact, the world’s oldest surviving wooden structure is the Horyu-ji temple that was built in the early seventh century. From the...
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London has eight public footpath level crossings, and today I'm going to walk you across another of them. Bourneview (CR8 5AD) Kenley in the London borough of Croydon, a couple of miles southeast of Purley. Two railway lines wend down this dry chalk valley but we want the line...
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A Nice Walk: Putney Sculpture Trail (1½ miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, lots to see, pretty views, tidal waterside, pockets of history, nine bronzes, multiple refreshment opportunities, entirely step-free, won't take...
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A Nice Walk: Campden Hill (¾ mile) Campden Hill, a full 42 metres above sea level. Here it is on a topographic map, a raw bruise to the east of Holland Park, entirely untroubled by public transport. [1872 map] [2024 map] Campden Hill rises to the south of Notting Hill Gate,...
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London's Free Buses RP1: Richmond Park circular Length of journey: 12 miles, 90 minutes the RP1, a minibus service organised by the Royal Parks to provide accessible transport through and around Richmond Park. Just because you can't get around easily any more, why should you miss...
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Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get home. Here are three of this week's serendipitous discoveries. North: Gilpin's Bell Where: Fore Street, Edmonton, N18 What I thought: Hmm, what's that lump of concrete in the...
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From eight to nine Yesterday I undertook the not inconsequential task of buying a new laptop, something I'd been...
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Yesterday I undertook the not inconsequential task of buying a new laptop, something I'd been putting off for a long time. 2020 and your collective advice was "if it's still working keep using it" so I did. It's got slower, as you'd expect, but I've worked around that and put up...
diamond geezer
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Some of London's best small parks were once a rich man's garden. It's called Stephens House and Gardens and it covers a dozen acres off East End Road, not far from Finchley central station. If what you need is a kickabout space and somewhere to exercise a big dog it's not for...
diamond geezer
I've been to see some art I've been to see some art. Art West: Serpentine Gallery Many's the time I've traipsed to the...
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I've been to see some art. Art West: Serpentine Gallery Many's the time I've traipsed to the middle of Kensington Gardens only to be underwhelmed. Thankfully this time it was well worth the effort. Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States (until 1 September) Yinka did the...
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The City of London looks favourably upon planning applications for very tall buildings which come with a free viewing gallery. Get the public into the Square Mile and they'll spend money here is their very reasonable premise, even if it sometimes results in even-more-towering...
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all photos by Toshiyuki Yano Right across the Kanda River from Akihabara Station is 12 Kanda, a new co-working space dedicated to supporting small businesses and startups. A visually eye-catching building, it features multiple stories with different forms and functions stacked on...
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Today is Tanabata (七夕, meaning “Evening of the seventh”), a Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi. According to legend, the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh...
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Route SL2: Walthamstow Central - North Woolwich Ferry Length of journey: 12 miles, 60 minutes Headline: The new express route that completes the loop. Subtext: This time last year the Superloop hadn't even been announced. It now circles outer London. Caveat: It's not a loop, the...
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A few weeks ago we (fellow MAF pilot Andrew and I) landed at Amudat airstrip for the first time in a very long time (below). Over the past year and a half quite a few of the upcountry airstrips in Uganda (especially in Karamoja) deteriorated so badly that we had to stop using...
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Several times a year, aligned to the full moon, the Thames sees some particularly high tides. Sometimes, after particularly heavy spells of rain, much more water comes down the Thames than usual. And when these two events coincide various paths, piers and embankments that don't...
diamond geezer
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Yesterday's Open House tally was eight. • The iconic building on the other side of London where it looked like they were offering walk-up tours including a rooftop visit, so I went out of my way to attend only to find that the tour in fact required booking and was full, plus it...
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Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of being the 4th. As usual it had nothing to do with something I'd just written, just thousands of people piling onto an old post which just happened to answer a question someone had...
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Four months of major roadworks were supposed to begin at the Bow Roundabout on Monday. So how's that going? Monday 30th September Tuesday 1st October I popped up to Old Ford to see what's happened with route 8 terminating one stop early. A temporary stand has been created...
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20 years ago this week TfL published a map of what their transport network might look like in 2016. (technically it was 20 years ago last week, but the actual anniversary was election day and we were all otherwise occupied) The map has obviously disappeared from the TfL...
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As the phoney war before the next election escalates, I'd like to express my disappointment that the next government won't be as left wing as it should have been. These are Comrade Starmer's so-called first steps, a limp selection of depressingly weak promises which reads...
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Today I hope to bring you five St Patrick's Day quizzes. Just one guess in each quiz please. (but that's five guesses over the course of the day) 5) St Patrick quiz ST PATRICK.   1) bigot 2) channel 3) characteristics 4) coupé 5) deceives 6) designer     7) flatbreads 8)...
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Harakado, opened on April 17, 2024 at the Jingumae intersection along Omotesando Street in central Tokyo. The shiny, brand new facility was designed by architect Akihisa Hirata, whose interest in tangled, organic structures, is on full display in his rendering of the facade and...
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10 months ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #11 Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on...
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2 weeks ago
Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on when you think the start and finish dates are. new sliproad underneath the flyover is nearing completion. This'll carry westbound traffic from the contraflow lane on Stratford High...
diamond geezer
Green Chain 12 It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence...
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It's not often London's Strategic Walk Network is extended. The London Loop has been in existence since 2001, the Capital Ring completed in 2005, the Green Chain grew an extra leg in 2010 and the Jubilee Greenway emerged in 2012. So I was thrilled to discover that the Green Chain...
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Belgravia In Bloom 2024: Flower Arches And Sculptures Pop Up In West London It's all fun and games this year - that's the theme!
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Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Randoseru For Dogs Tsuchiya Kaban, the 58-year old Japanese leather bagmaker known for their highly-specific bags, has...
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Tsuchiya Kaban, the 58-year old Japanese leather bagmaker known for their highly-specific bags, has released their very first line-up of pet products. And their doggy randoseru is absolutely adorable. For those who aren’t familiar, randoseru are backpacks for kids. Typically made...
diamond geezer
QEOP 10 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is 10 years old this weekend. A chunk of the North Park opened more...
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is 10 years old this weekend. A chunk of the North Park opened more quickly in the summer after the Games but the rest was only fully revealed on 5th April 2014, including all the good stuff round the Stadium. This was the moment that created a...
diamond geezer
Losing our marbles I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum yesterday. Greece can't have them back. This...
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a year ago
I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum yesterday. Greece can't have them back. This whole controversy thing is just a ploy by the British Museum to drum up more visitors. It worked with me anyway, I went yesterday, and their devious marketing strategy deserves to...
Londonist
30 Beautiful Giraffe Sculptures To Discover On This Croydon Art Trail Done the gorillas? Now do these.
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all photos by Masamichi Kirihara courtesy Sankei Japanese trains often get all the love, but we’re a fan of their buses too. And if you’re keen on living the slow life while also experiencing the Japanese countryside, boy do we have the perfect activity for you. The Yagi-Shingu...
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Ever Noticed These Decorative Panels At Guy's Hospital? Three scenes of hospital life.
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I wish it could be every day I wish it could be Christmas Eve every day • Shopping would always be madness. • No more Countdown...
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I wish it could be Christmas Eve every day • Shopping would always be madness. • No more Countdown on C4, just endless reruns of The Snowman. • You'd forever be wrapping presents but not opening them. • You'd soon run out of sellotape. • Christmas jumpers would no longer be a...
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"We're Bringing Migrant Voices To The London Stage" Foreign Affairs harnesses the power of translation.
a year ago
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OMA, Borough Market Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began...
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Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began his London restaurant journey at Smokestak, the hugely influential East London BBQ joint. Smokestak, together with a tiny handful of other brave pioneers around the same time...
Spoon & Tamago
Show Your Japan Prefectural Love With These Enamel Pins This series of enamel pins, with each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, are the perfect...
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This series of enamel pins, with each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, are the perfect way to show love for your hometown, or simply keep as mementos from your travels. Not only do they accurately capture the shape of each prefecture but the colors were also carefully...
Londonist
Time Travel Back To 17th Century London - With This Royalist Reenactment Along The Mall Commemorating the execution of Charles I.
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Cheese and Biscuits
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a year ago
Looking over the confidently international menu at Nessa the other evening, it occurred to me that it's been a while since I've had a moan about anywhere being 'inauthentic'. For all the years that we British were insecure about our place in the culinary world, and those years...
diamond geezer
Sadiq's third manifesto Sadiq's manifesto has finally been published so let's take a look (mainly so there's a blogpost to...
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Sadiq's manifesto has finally been published so let's take a look (mainly so there's a blogpost to check at the end of his term in 2028). Title: A fairer, safer, greener London for everyone Pages: 67 Top 10 pledges 1) Free school meals 2) Freeze TfL fares 3) 40,000 new...
Londonist
Secrets Of 19th Century Workhouse Uncovered At St Pancras Dig Fireplaces, vibrant walls and hot water bottles revealed.
a year ago
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The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington Warning: article could lead to serious house envy.
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diamond geezer
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London's next dead bus 549: Loughton to South Woodford Location: outer London/Essex Length of journey: 5 miles, 30 minutes 549, which dies tomorrow, is one of London's weirder bus routes. It was transferred to TfL control from Essex in 2003, hence the unusual opening digit. It...
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diamond geezer
dg Q&A dg Q&A Thank you for your questions. How many spoons do you have? Have you ever milked a...
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dg Q&A Thank you for your questions. How many spoons do you have? Have you ever milked a cow? What did you have for lunch on 30th July 1989? What's the most northerly object in your flat? Which is the most-read Diamond Geezer post? Does the UK have the worst pedestrian...
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diamond geezer
Everyman Stratford International Stratford has a new cinema. Everyman and can be found in the highrise nomansland that separates...
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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
Unblogged July 31 unblogged things I did in July Mon 1: "Oooh," I thought, "I bet that's the last London park in...
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31 unblogged things I did in July Mon 1: "Oooh," I thought, "I bet that's the last London park in alphabetical order, I wonder what the first is." So if you see a post one day called The A-Z of London Parks, that's where the idea came from. Tue 2: Unblogged follow-up to my Free...
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diamond geezer
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photos by Daici Ano courtesy Keiji Ashizawa Architects We have a serious case of real estate envy here. House in Saiko is a holiday home that overlooks Mount Fuji on the shore of Lake Saiko, one of the five Fuji Lakes. Designed by architect Keiji Ashizawa, and completed in 2017,...
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diamond geezer
Crewe Gadabout: CREWE Crewe is a large town in Cheshire and a key junction on the West Coast Main Line....
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Gadabout: CREWE Crewe is a large town in Cheshire and a key junction on the West Coast Main Line. It's only here because of the railway so has pretty much no history before that arrived, and the railway's only here because the nearby towns of Nantwich and Winsford turned the...
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Victoria Line A short chronology of the light-blue line.
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diamond geezer
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5 months ago
The General Election has seen Labour strengthen its hold over the capital with 59 MPs, while the Liberal Democrats have doubled their total to 6 and the Conservatives slumped to just 9. The electoral map of London is thus almost all red, with a yellow bloc to the southwest and a...
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all images courtesy the artist On the spectrum of artistic materials, pixel art and ceramics seemingly couldn’t be further apart. On one end you have one of mankind’s oldest forms of expression dating back to the late Paleolithic period. On the other, a digital form of art that...
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London On Fire: Paintings Of The Blitz By The Firefighters Who Were There City's darkest hour captured in vivid paint.
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In the shadow of We often say somewhere is "in the shadow of" something without it necessarily being true. The sun...
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We often say somewhere is "in the shadow of" something without it necessarily being true. The sun does not cast a shadow from the first location to the second, that's not how daylight works, so these places are not "in the shadow of". Let's start with something familiar in...
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Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on Sunday, on a remote strip in South Sudan. It's not normal for us to do flights on Sundays, but we've had an aircraft stuck in that location for a long time now, requiring some TLC...
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diamond geezer
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'Tis the season. Advent Way N18 A country lane called Angel Road once headed east out of Edmonton following Pymme's Brook, ending at a sylvan bridge across the River Lea where anglers often gathered. Then in the 1920s the North Circular Road was built, the engineers choosing...
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Panto In London - Where To Watch The Best Pantomimes This Festive Season Panto is back for 2023 - oh yes it is!
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For most restaurants, no matter how lofty their ambitions or discerning the clientele, sheer practical market forces will be the driving force behind at least one or two dishes, whether it's the chic Northern gastropub reluctantly offering fish and chips and a burger alongside...
Londonist
TfL Launches A New Podcast Hosted By Tim Dunn Guests include Tube Mapper and, er, Rylan.
a year ago
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Shop the Best Artisan Goods in China, Colombia, and Spain
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Where to Eat, Drink, and Unwind in Virginia Beach
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River Wogebourne THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead...
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THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON River Wogebourne Shooters Hill → East Wickham → Abbey Wood → Thamesmead (5 miles) The Wogebourne is a five mile tributary of the River Thames in the southeast London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, that flows generally in a northeasterly direction,...
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Things To Do In London This Autumn Your September to November 2023 calendar, sorted.
a year ago
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Fort Myers: Your Gateway to Unforgettable Outdoor Adventures
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The Modern Game Of Darts Was Invented In A London Pub In 1926 Although Henry VIII had a set of darts too.
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 23-24 September 2023 Exhibitions, festivals, workshops, talks, cabaret, comedy... phew!
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Fender’s First Ever Flagship Store by Klein-Dytham Architecture Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding...
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a year ago
Fender, the iconic guitar brand, has opened its first-ever flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo, riding on the wave of soaring demand of Guitars during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related posts: House Tour: Yoyogi Artist Studio (with a hidden bed) #thatPOWER | Will.i.am’s new music...
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Punchdrunk: Immersive Doyens Return In 2024 With "Moonlit Fever Dream" Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
9 months ago
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The Barbi-Ken Line? The Ickeypoo Line? What If All Tubes Were Named Like Bakerloo? Waterloo to Bank presents some options.
a year ago
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Trafalgar 219 To celebrate/commemorate the 219th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, here are 40...
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To celebrate/commemorate the 219th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, here are 40 Trafalgar-based lists. Places called Trafalgar: cape in Spain, hamlet in Cornwall, town in Indiana, community in Nova Scotia, town in Victoria, waterfall in Dominica, village in South Africa,...
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Lower Lea Valley Bus Review HYPERLOCAL BUS NEWS: Lower Lea Valley Bus Review development papers focused on particular...
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HYPERLOCAL BUS NEWS: Lower Lea Valley Bus Review development papers focused on particular geographical areas. A recent set covers the Lower Lea Valley, an area of "historically relatively low trip-generating industrial land progressively transforming into higher trip-generating...
Londonist
Get Your Broken Stuff Fixed At These Workshops Across London This March Most are free, too.
9 months ago
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How To Spend A Weekend In Dublin 48 hours of pubs, literature and galleries.
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Festive Shows, Winter Cocktails, And Gifts Galore At The Barbican So much seasonal cheer to unwrap.
a year ago
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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers
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‘Ye Bakers’ is a New Bakery Nestled Inside an Aichi Home In a residential neighborhood, a small bakery is designed to integrate seamlessly with its...
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In a residential neighborhood, a small bakery is designed to integrate seamlessly with its surroundings while maintaining its commercial purpose. Related posts: Noma’s New Pop Up by OEO Studio in Kyoto Interior Designer Shigeru Uchida: 1943 – 2016 House Tour: Yoyogi Artist...
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V&A East - Brand New Museum Opening In 2025 Announces Its First Exhibition The Music Is Black: A British Story will get the ball rolling.
a year ago
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...
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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
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One Stop Beyond But what are the first stations beyond the Greater London boundary? Herts Moor Park...
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But what are the first stations beyond the Greater London boundary? Herts Moor Park z6/7 Carpenders Park z7 Herts Elstree and Borehamwood z6 Potters Bar Herts Cuffley Theobalds Grove z7 Waltham Cross z7 Essex Buckhurst Hill z5 Roding Valley z4 Grange Hill...
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Dangleway Week (2) Danglewatch (4) Dangleway dining North Heroica Pizza Bus is emblazoned with murals and...
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a year ago
Danglewatch (4) Dangleway dining North Heroica Pizza Bus is emblazoned with murals and 'hilarious' signs ("Unattended Children Will Be Given an Espresso And A Free Puppy"), so could hardly scream 'tourists welcome' any louder. cafe of the decent but dull variety, but it's...
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The most/least popular journeys between tube stations What's the most popular journey between tube stations? an FOI request published yesterday. The...
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6 months ago
What's the most popular journey between tube stations? an FOI request published yesterday. The data is a) for journeys in the calendar year 2023 We have had similar spreadsheets before, but this is the first The most popular journey is from Liverpool Street to Tottenham...
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Lessons learned 40 things I've learnt about sex over the last 40 years 1) Nothing ever prepares you for the first...
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6 months ago
40 things I've learnt about sex over the last 40 years 1) Nothing ever prepares you for the first time... 2) ... not even the fact that the biology textbook always falls open at the same page 3) The first time is always a ghastly mistake (I'm extrapolating this from a single...
Londonist
Where To Go Pumpkin Picking Near London This Autumn Oh. My. GOURD.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Changing bus routes Every bus route serving bus stop M has changed over the last 20 years. 8 used to go to Victoria,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every bus route serving bus stop M has changed over the last 20 years. 8 used to go to Victoria, then was cut back to Oxford Circus in 2009, then to Tottenham Court Road in 2013. 25 originally came from Oxford Circus but was cut back to Holborn Viaduct in 2018. 108 never used...
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Discover Lake Como's Epic Hikes & Cuisine
a year ago
Londonist
12 Marvellous Day Trips From London: September 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Still hanging around Yesterday was one of this blog's 20 busiest days, not because everyone's really interested in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday was one of this blog's 20 busiest days, not because everyone's really interested in National Trust properties but because an old post hit an international news aggregator. My post about Crossrail timewasting ended up on hckr news under the headline "25% of the 13 minute...
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18U 55V 51W On Saturday I proposed that 18U Brondesbury Park NW6 7BT is London's highest lettered house....
a year ago
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a year ago
On Saturday I proposed that 18U Brondesbury Park NW6 7BT is London's highest lettered house. Nothing's going to beat a run of houses that goes 18J, 18K, 18L, 18M, 18N, 18P, 18Q, 18R, 18S, 18T, 18U, I thought. Not so. There are in fact over 50 properties in the capital that can...
Spoon & Tamago
The 2024 Toyama Kei-Truck Gardening Contest The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the...
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The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the most-Japanese contest, professional gardeners and landscapers compete to create a beautiful, seasonal, and unique landscape , all within the bed of their kei-trucks. This contest originated...
Londonist
See London's Biggest Pie Chart LSE's giant, mathematical mural.
a year ago
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Join The Race To Help Beat Childhood Cancer On A Family-Friendly Fun Run RBC Race for the Kids returns.
a year ago
Londonist
Dive Into This Astoundingly Detailed Illustration Of Somerset House Adam Dant is at it again.
9 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Tamiya’s New Plamodel Factory in Tokyo is a Model Maker’s Paradise Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most...
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Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most recognized brand name in the modeling industry, recently opened a new flagship facility in the Shimbashi Toranomon area of Tokyo. Dubbed the Tamiya Plamodel Factory, the shiny new...
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The Best Places to Eat and Drink in Myrtle Beach, SC
3 months ago
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A Brief History Of The Northern Line London's first deep-level tube.
a year ago
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Upgrading to Lufthansa Allegris’ New Business Class
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Unblogged October 31 unblogged things I did in October Sun 1: If you're putting together a 'Joyridden Cars Smashed...
a year ago
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a year ago
31 unblogged things I did in October Sun 1: If you're putting together a 'Joyridden Cars Smashed Into Bus Shelters' Calendar, this is the ideal photo for November. Mon 2: I've been enjoying the podcast Uncharted with Hannah Fry in which the BBC's go-to mathematician tells...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 15-21 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
11 months ago
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London's biggest power stations The square after Pall Mall on the Monopoly board is the Electric Company. It would be too...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The square after Pall Mall on the Monopoly board is the Electric Company. It would be too overfamiliar to visit Tate Modern and Battersea Power Station, plus neither of them still generate electricity, so I'm not going there. Instead I've identified the five largest power...
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The Highlights of New York Winter Jazzfest, January, 2025
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Londonist
Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London "Now pay attention..."
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Londonist
The Ghosts Of Oxford Street: The Ultimate London Christmas Film? Part musical, part 'secrets of', part who-knows-what.
a year ago
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Farewell Evening Standard The Evening Standard, first published in 1827, went to press for the last time on...
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3 months ago
The Evening Standard, first published in 1827, went to press for the last time on Thursday. <insert anecdotes here, including how it used to have competition, and how it used to be good, and how it used to cost money but you'd still buy it, and how it was never the same after...
Londonist
Where To Volunteer In London At Christmas 2023 Make someone else's Christmas special.
a year ago
Londonist
Halloween 2023: Parties, Events And Things To Do In London Get your spook on.
a year ago
One from Nippon
The World's First App Store Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start with an honest admission. I didn’t set out to write about the world’s first app store. I set out to write about Brother printers. But
Cheese and Biscuits
Restaurant Dominic Chapman, Henley-on-Thames This isn't going to be a very long post because, well, it wasn't a very long lunch. Sometimes you...
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This isn't going to be a very long post because, well, it wasn't a very long lunch. Sometimes you want to spend all day cooing over a tasting menu, getting through way too many bottles of wine and ending up leaving just as the next set of guests are arriving for dinner. Sometimes...
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Travel to Costal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites
7 months ago
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2024 anniversary quiz 2024 anniversary quiz a) launched Jan 1999 (25 years): no marks b) contracted Jan 1974 (50 years):...
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2024 anniversary quiz a) launched Jan 1999 (25 years): no marks b) contracted Jan 1974 (50 years): two days fewer c) appointed Jan 1924 (100 years): induced Labour d) heard Jan 1924 (100 years): Dogger Fisher e) died Jan 1924 (100 years): Union leader f) launched Jan 1924 (100...
Londonist
Hammersmith Bridge Is Reopening To Cyclists... But Only For 10 Weeks And it's got something to do with West Ham fans.
10 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 April 2024 Last-chance exhibitions, an ice hockey weekender, and a miniature railway.
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Clandon and Hatchlands Yesterday I took the train to Surrey to tick off two more National Trust properties. Cost of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday I took the train to Surrey to tick off two more National Trust properties. Cost of off-peak return from Waterloo to Clandon: £14.50 Cost of off-peak return from Wimbledon to Clandon: £8.00 (so maybe do that) You alight the train a couple of stops before Guildford and...
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The Lamb Inn, Little Milton Most visitors to the Lamb Inn will approach from the car park and be greeted with the sight pictured...
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Most visitors to the Lamb Inn will approach from the car park and be greeted with the sight pictured above - an achingly cute thatched countryside pub in whitewashed stone looking like it hadn't changed much in the past few hundred years. And this is, of course, a great way to...
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Consecutive postcode districts It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than wasting your time reading today's post. That's because it's about journeys through consecutively numbered postcode districts, an issue of no practical use whatsoever. postcode...
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The Map House An exhibition of tube maps, dozens and dozens of them, is pretty much nirvana for some people. If...
a month ago
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An exhibition of tube maps, dozens and dozens of them, is pretty much nirvana for some people. If this is you be sure to make a pilgrimage to The Map House (nearest station Knightsbridge) before the end of the month. Look for the gold tube map in the window, just round the corner...
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A Guide to the Best Food in Kansas City
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Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 29 January-4 February 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
10 months ago
Londonist
'Stand Against Suella' Protest Takes Place In Central London On Sunday LGBTQ groups rally against dehumanising rhetoric.
a year ago
Londonist
Earth Hour 2024: London To Be Plunged Into Darkness Again Switch the lights off for an hour, for the good of the planet.
9 months ago
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Tickets are being accepted on alternative services The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The tube was seriously disrupted in northwest London yesterday morning when a signal failure at Wembley Park caused line closures and serious delays. And the advice which popped up is the advice which often pops up in such a situation, which is that tickets were being accepted on...
Londonist
Support A Great Cause At The Guildhall's Spectacular Christmas Market! Festive feasting, fantastic gifts, and medieval grandeur.
a year ago
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Borough visitor websites Some London boroughs like to have a web presence that draws tourists in, should anyone be...
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2 months ago
Some London boroughs like to have a web presence that draws tourists in, should anyone be interested, or highlights places of interest for the benefit of local residents. These websites attempt to reinforce the idea that a borough has history, or culture, or some sort of life,...
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Myrtle Beach’s Sensory-Friendly Hotels, Spots, Restaurants
3 months ago
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Wish You Were (Still) Here: Piccadilly's Egyptian Hall London's most beautiful pastiche?
9 months ago
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9 Best U.S. National Parks for Stargazing
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Spoon & Tamago
The Asuke II Cruise Ship is a Floating Museum of Traditional Craftwork Over 50 pieces of traditional craftwork (dento kogei) are on display on the Asuka II cruise ship for...
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6 months ago
Over 50 pieces of traditional craftwork (dento kogei) are on display on the Asuka II cruise ship for a project organized by the Japan Kogei Association, a Tokyo-based group comprising artisans nationwide, and Anchor Ship Partners Co., a shareholder of the company that operates...