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Stafford Gadabout: STAFFORD Stafford is a West Midlands market town at the heart of its own county, located...
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Gadabout: STAFFORD Stafford is a West Midlands market town at the heart of its own county, located halfway between Crewe and Birmingham. It may be the same size as Crewe but it's over a millennium older, has much better shops and boasts a castle and some nice old buildings. It's...
Londonist
Horizon 22: Visit The Tallest Free Viewing Gallery In Europe The City's tallest building lets you looking down on the Shard.
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Life Under Lockdown in Uganda Hey folks. Several of you have been asking how things are going for us over here in Uganda,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey folks. Several of you have been asking how things are going for us over here in Uganda, considering how disruptive the Covid-19 stuff has been worldwide. Well, since my previous blog post (on March 24th) Uganda has basically gone under a virtual lockdown. I took these two...
Londonist
Dozens Of Well-Dressed Dandies Saunter Through Central London In May What Londoner doesn't like a good flan?
9 months ago
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
diamond geezer
London Countries - Afghanistan London Countries (an A-Z) 1. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 In this new series I'll be visiting all the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
London Countries (an A-Z) 1. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 In this new series I'll be visiting all the countries in the world but without leaving London. Their people, their geography, their history, their culture, their cuisine, that kind of thing. I'm kicking off with Afghanistan because...
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The Best Things to Do in Abu Dhabi
a year ago
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9 Greek Travel Experiences for a Luxurious Escape
a month ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Hainan House, Angel Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of over 10 million people (more than London). And yet inevitably until last week I'd never heard of...
diamond geezer
Random borough 3 Twenty years ago, on my first Random Borough trip, my jamjar took me to Merton and I only gave it a...
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9 months ago
Twenty years ago, on my first Random Borough trip, my jamjar took me to Merton and I only gave it a one-day write-up. Two decades later I'm doing Merton justice by giving it three days, of which this is the last, so buckle down to learn about fertiliser, philanthropy and phone...
Londonist
Valentine's Day 2024 In London: Events For Dates, Mates And Flying Solo Romance-themed things to do on and around 14 February.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
The 'Inside The Circle Line' Tube Challenge Let's celebrate the cancellation of today's tube strike by tackling a really pointless...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's celebrate the cancellation of today's tube strike by tackling a really pointless challenge. The 'Inside The Circle Line' Tube Challenge No station can be visited more than once. So, for example, you might ride one stop from Queensway to Lancaster Gate, then get out...
Cheese and Biscuits
Crocadon, Cornwall Great restaurants often involve a great journey, and the journey to Crocadon, for everyone involved,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Great restaurants often involve a great journey, and the journey to Crocadon, for everyone involved, staff and guests, is greater than most. Dan Cox was head chef at Fera at Claridges when I last sampled his cooking, and although the restaurant eventually turned out to be a bit...
Londonist
The Chelsea Flower Show 2024: A Blooming Brief Guide The world’s greatest flower show returns.
9 months ago
diamond geezer
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9 months ago
diamond geezer
Historic Hounslow High Street Historic Hounslow High Street Past bypassed in 1925 reducing the flow of traffic and boosting...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Historic Hounslow High Street Past bypassed in 1925 reducing the flow of traffic and boosting the High Street's importance as a shopping centre for the growing suburb. Then in the late 1960s it was part-pedestrianised in readiness for nearby redevelopment (as you can see...
Londonist
Christmas Gift Guide: London Themed Presents To Buy For London Lovers! Books, booze and unique stocking fillers.
a year ago
Londonist
How To Spend A Weekend In Puerto Del Carmen, Lanzarote And neighbouring Los Pocillos too.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Philips 9TC 2100 40 years ago this week I bought my first television. It was only black and white and only had a...
a year ago
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a year ago
40 years ago this week I bought my first television. It was only black and white and only had a nine inch screen, hence the model name, but it showed all the same channels as a normal television and most importantly it was mine. Back in 1983 there were only four channels to...
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Top 10 Locations and Hotels for Food Lovers
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...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 20-26 November 2023 All our best articles from the past week.
a year ago
The Forney Flyer
Making the Most of Being Stuck I'm taking a quick break from the series I was doing about our past, to update you on what's going...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm taking a quick break from the series I was doing about our past, to update you on what's going on here right now.  I mentioned a while back that I would update you regarding our summer plans when we knew more. Well, the uncertainty has persisted throughout the summer, so I...
Spoon & Tamago
Tokyo Here & Now: Private Art and Design Tours by Mirit Weinstock this post is sponsored by mirit weinstock Mirit Weinstock is an artist and designer living in Tokyo,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
this post is sponsored by mirit weinstock Mirit Weinstock is an artist and designer living in Tokyo, specializing in Japanese crafts and working in a variety of mediums. The creative director and founder of “Mirit Weinstock” jewelry brand, the artist is steeped in the Japanese...
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BIPOC Guide to Asheville's Outdoors
11 months ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London In Half Term: October 2023 Family-friendly school holiday activities for all budgets.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Devonshire, Soho There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy,...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy, thoughtful or measured arguments; no sense in analysing the details. There needs to be no slow and steady building of a case, culminating in a grand and weighty conclusion. The...
diamond geezer
2024 anniversary quiz 2024 anniversary quiz a) launched Jan 1999 (25 years): no marks b) contracted Jan 1974 (50 years):...
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a year ago
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
30 Beautiful Giraffe Sculptures To Discover On This Croydon Art Trail Done the gorillas? Now do these.
a year ago
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Grand Hotel Timeo Launches Pop-Up Treehouse Suites by Dior
a year ago
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How to Redeem AmEx Membership Rewards Points for Top Value
a year ago
Londonist
Week Of January Tube Strikes Set To Cause Severe Disruption Happy New Year!
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On New Year's Eve 31 December events and parties in London.
a year ago
Londonist
Tips For Australians In London - From An Australian In London Zoë Coombs Marr advises.
a year ago
Londonist
East London Could Be Getting This Flashy New Lido What a beaut.
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...
a year ago
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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...
Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
10 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
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...
Spoon & Tamago
City and Forest Living in a Unique Concrete Log House All images © Ichiro Mishima courtesy IKAWAYA Architects Merging the organic with the inorganic;...
a year ago
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a year ago
All images © Ichiro Mishima courtesy IKAWAYA Architects Merging the organic with the inorganic; walking the fine line between indoors and outdoors, is a predominant theme in contemporary Japanese architecture. One of the latest iterations is from architect Atsushi Ikawaya, who...
diamond geezer
The disappearing Status updates map The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions. Status...
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2 weeks ago
The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions. Status updates page on the TfL website where for the last ten years you've been able to see a map of disruptions to the network. The map was removed three weeks ago when the big...
diamond geezer
Marlborough Street MARLBOROUGH STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets MARLBOROUGH STREET Colour group:...
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MARLBOROUGH STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets MARLBOROUGH STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 300m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Great Marlborough Street. To understand why, remember that the orange set of properties were originally all...
Londonist
Mesmerising Shots Of London From Above At Christmas Ding dong merrily on (very) high.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
OMA, Borough Market Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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...
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3 Great California Travel Itineraries to Inspire Anyone
10 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
Londonist
Explore Notre-Dame Cathedral... From Westminster Abbey Hit augmented reality experience comes to London.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Sunday transport news Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct journey on the Underground is between Epping and West Ruislip on the Central line. It's 54.9km long (34.1 miles), comfortably ahead of Uxbridge to Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line...
Cheese and Biscuits
YiQi, Chinatown As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
As any self-respecting 2024 London restaurant-goer knows, the trend in Asian cuisine is towards regional specification. You're not just Thai, you're Northern Thai/Isarn. You're either selling Tokyo ramen or Sapporo Miso or Kyoto-style Kaiseki. And if you're Chinese, are you...
Spoon & Tamago
Post-Apocalyptic Illustrations of Tokyo in Ruins Shinjuku Station – the road has collapsed on the South side of the station, revealing pools of blue...
a year ago
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a year ago
Shinjuku Station – the road has collapsed on the South side of the station, revealing pools of blue water that have formed on the train tracks Stories about the collapse of civilization and order—apocalyptic stories—endlessly seduce us. As terrifying as the real thing would...
Londonist
BBC's Desert Island Discs Announces Live Palladium Shows Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme.
11 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Shimmering Glass Plates Make You Feel Like You’re Eating Off Water Droplets It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the detail of moving water in photography. So you can imagine the technical challenge of accurately capturing water as a three-dimensional object. Product designer Masahiko Tanoue has...
Londonist
Plans For Redevelopment Of Waterloo Station Revealed New entrances and concourses are among the ideas.
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Liverpool Street LIVERPOOL   STREET STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets LIVERPOOL STREET STATION Group:...
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a month ago
LIVERPOOL   STREET STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets LIVERPOOL STREET STATION Group: British Railways Purchase price: £200 Rent: £25 Annual passengers: 95 million Borough: City of London Postcode: EC2 busiest station in the UK, a great contrast to mere Marylebone and...
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The 15 Best Luxury Hotels in California
a year ago
diamond geezer
England's 100 largest towns One reason I went to Redditch is that it's one of England's largest towns and I'm trying to turn...
3 months ago
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One reason I went to Redditch is that it's one of England's largest towns and I'm trying to turn this list blue. Admittedly it's only number 98, but every blogpost counts. England's 100 largest towns and cities by population 1-10: London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol,...
Londonist
The Best Horror Film Screenings In London For Halloween 2023 Do you like scary movies?
a year ago
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Discover Nine Ways to be Present in Los Angeles.
10 months 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...
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...
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Outdoor Adventure Inspiration and Small Businesses in Sheridan, Wyoming
a year ago
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10 Great All-Inclusive Hyatt Resorts in Mexico & Caribbean
a year ago
diamond geezer
Random Grid Square TQ2492 Greater London contains around 2000 National Grid squares, each 1km by 1km in size. What I like to...
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4 months ago
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,...
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984 30 unblogged things I did in April 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
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8 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in April 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 30 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and most of this is the Easter...
diamond geezer
Behind The Red Moon Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Big Brother isn't the only cultural phenomenon dividing public opinion annually since the turn of the millennium. There's also the giant artwork in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which over the years has been amazing, tedious, thought-provoking, bland, must-see, involving,...
Londonist
The New DLR Trains Could Have Toy Steering Wheels Installed Best. News. Ever.
11 months ago
Londonist
Plunge Into An Icy Brockwell Lido For Charity This Christmas The Icebreaker challenge is back.
a year ago
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American Airlines’ Top Credit Card Offers 100K Mile Bonus
a year ago
Londonist
Greater London To Get First New Borough In 60 Years Live in Berkshire? You might soon be a Londoner!
9 months ago
Londonist
London Then And Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow Over Past Two Decades Our city's put on a bit of a growth spurt since the 2000s...
a year ago
diamond geezer
Three Big Brother houses The 20th series of Big Brother kicked off this week, with sixteen fresh housemate wannabes confined...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 20th series of Big Brother kicked off this week, with sixteen fresh housemate wannabes confined inside a brand new Big Brother House. Where is the new Big Brother House hiding in plain sight in London's best-smelling cul-de-sac? The first Big Brother house...
Londonist
70+ Spectacular Things To Do In London This Month: September 2023 Open House London! Plus a new music festival, fashion exhibitions, pole dancing, and sheep on the...
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Whale Butter Dish Designed by Akira Yoshimura This whimsical butter dish is sure to bring a sea of change to your kitchen. Designed by Akira...
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a year ago
This whimsical butter dish is sure to bring a sea of change to your kitchen. Designed by Akira Yoshimura (previously) and lovingly produced by the metal artisans of Takaoka-based Sanomasa, the Whale Butter Dish is made in the likeness of a whale that has swallowed a stick of...
Londonist
Santa Steam Express: Meet Father Christmas On A Vintage Train In London The kids will be chuffed.
a year ago
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Reasons Why Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Are the Getaway Destinations
a year ago
diamond geezer
Push Your Luck New campaign to make your Tube journey cheaper The Off Peak Fridays trial ends this Friday, after...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
New campaign to make your Tube journey cheaper The Off Peak Fridays trial ends this Friday, after which pay as you go single fares will return to their original peak values every weekday. But cheaper travel for deserving Londoners remains one of the key mission goals of the...
Londonist
Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London "Now pay attention..."
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
An Architect Collaborated with 7 Renowned Artisans to Create this Stunning Home All images © Koji Fujii / TOREAL courtesy Cubo Design Architect “We believe houses that are rooted...
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a year ago
All images © Koji Fujii / TOREAL courtesy Cubo Design Architect “We believe houses that are rooted in an understanding of Japan’s cultural context and a respect for the skills and innovations of our ancestors, which can nevertheless be passed onto future generations, are the kind...
Londonist
The Great Fire Of London: 10 Key Sites To See Monument, Pudding Lane, the Golden Boy and more.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
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4 months ago
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for? Set menus (usually,...
Londonist
Captain Zip's Amazing Film Footage Of London Punks In The 1970s And 80s They even visit Downing Street.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Opening up the Thames Path I'm indebted to Ian Visits for alerting me that a new stretch of the Thames Path has just opened up....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I'm indebted to Ian Visits for alerting me that a new stretch of the Thames Path has just opened up. It's alongside Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham FC, where previously you had to divert inland around three sides of the stadium. That's no longer necessary because a new...
diamond geezer
Route 59 Route 59: Smithfield to Streatham Hill Location: London south, inner Length of bus journey: 6 miles,...
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9 months ago
Route 59: Smithfield to Streatham Hill Location: London south, inner Length of bus journey: 6 miles, 55 minutes It's traditional around every birthday that I take a numerically significant bus journey. Seventeen years ago I took the 42 to Dulwich, then subsequently the 43 to...
diamond geezer
Unblogged September 30 unblogged things I did in September Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in September Sun 1: My new laptop is on quite the sightseeing tour. Yesterday it was in Shanghai, today it's in Köln and tomorrow it'll be in Stanford le Hope. Mon 2: At Gipsy Hill station I spotted a cat on the Oyster reader, and quite frankly this...
Londonist
Visit These 15 Beautiful Castles In Kent Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles.
9 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2023: Best Deals for Travelers
a year ago
diamond geezer
Dunton Green One Stop Beyond: Dunton Green In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater...
a month ago
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a month ago
One Stop Beyond: Dunton Green In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Dunton Green, one stop beyond Knockholt on the Sevenoaks line, a disparate village at the foot of the North Downs...
diamond geezer
S2 This is the S2, a bus which ran between Clapton and my neck of the woods between 1970 and 2008, back...
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10 months ago
This is the S2, a bus which ran between Clapton and my neck of the woods between 1970 and 2008, back when 'S' meant Stratford. It now means Sutton, there already being an S1, S3 and S4 threading across the borough, but it's taken until 2024 for the gap to be filled with an...
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Why The Sagamore Pendry Baltimore is The City's Best Hotel
a year ago
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
You Can Take A Dip In This Rooftop Pool Overlooking Battersea Power Station art'otel announces series of aerobics classes.
11 months ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Hammersmith And City Line It's London's newest line; or second-oldest.
11 months ago
One from Nippon
From the Ashes of the World's First App Store Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part article. Read Part 1 here. Part 1 Summary: Brother...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part article. Read Part 1 here. Part 1 Summary: Brother Industries built Takeru, the world's first software vending machine that let users download software from a server. While revolutionary, it wasn't as huge a success as
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The Alpine Charms and Traditions of Bregenzerwald
a year ago
Londonist
In Pictures: Vintage London Palladium Programmes Robert Opie shares his collection with us.
a year ago
Londonist
Competition Alert! Win A Family Mini Break In A 5-Star London Hotel A fantastic prize from Pan Pacific London.
a year ago
Londonist
Literary Footprints 2024: Walking Tours Around Literary London Love books? Love London? Love this.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
The City Wall at Vine Street Other Vine Streets are available. The City Wall at Vine Street Location: Vine Street, EC3N 2HT...
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6 months ago
Other Vine Streets are available. The City Wall at Vine Street Location: Vine Street, EC3N 2HT [map] Open: 9am - 6pm (bank holidays excepted) Admission: free Seven word summary: a very old wall and some rubbish Website: citywallvinestreet.org Time to set aside: half an hour The...
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7 Music-Themed Museums to Visit in Washington D.C.
8 months 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...
Spoon & Tamago
Make Daily Life Comical With Manga Sound Effects These acrylic manga sound effects are the perfect item to introduce some comical playfulness into...
a year ago
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a year ago
These acrylic manga sound effects are the perfect item to introduce some comical playfulness into your room or office. Need to drop off a stack of documents for your coworker to review? The ドーン sound effect accentuates the weight and intimidation of the pile. Want to show off you...
diamond geezer
Littlehampton Seaside postcard: Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Seaside postcard: Littlehampton Littlehampton is a seaside town, I hesitate to say resort, midway along the coast of West Sussex. It has a Heatherwick cafe, a sort-of lighthouse, Britain's longest bench and a lot of crabs. I visited yesterday. [Visit Littlehampton] [12...
Londonist
Join The Race To Help Beat Childhood Cancer On A Family-Friendly Fun Run RBC Race for the Kids returns.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Ruby Tuesday Drive As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. And there are ten more where that came...
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As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. And there are ten more where that came from. Dartford not far from the QE2 Bridge. We're in Dartford because that's where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up, met and went on to form the Rolling Stones. And we're here...
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Tips for Avoiding Crowds and Enjoying Croatia
10 months ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 30 October-5 November 2023 The best articles from Londonist over the past week.
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Safe Are Submarine Tours? Should You Go On One?
a year ago
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3) Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens. Onsen as a Business Despite all the hype in Part 1
Londonist
Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
10 months ago
diamond geezer
You must have a valid ticket before boarding Last month there were significant closures on the DLR and a replacement bus service ran. And...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Last month there were significant closures on the DLR and a replacement bus service ran. And there was one particular sentence that surprised me the most. "You must have a valid ticket before boarding the replacement bus service." I've never seen that before, not on a TfL...
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The 8 Best Things to Do in San Luis Obispo
a year ago
Londonist
Fears Over Redevelopment Of Surbiton Station Public consultation now open.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Washside postcards Washside postcards: Hunstanton → King's Lynn ✉ Head south from Hunstanton and the first village you...
5 months ago
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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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The Terrace restaurant in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight is situated not just handily near the ferry terminal, but literally on top of it, the outside dining area (or Terrace, if you will) regularly enveloped in shade as the giant Lymington ferry pulls alongside. This means that...
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An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
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As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south coast, and Brighton in particular. And though that town certainly has a lot going for it, not least a thriving restaurant and pub/wine scene that can show you a great time at all...
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Crossing the river news Silvertown Tunnel toll news have been announced. They're not called tolls, they're called user charges, but we all know what they are. The tolls will also apply to the Blackwall Tunnel from the day the Silvertown Tunnel opens which is expected to be...
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It struck me I'd never seen a 21 gun salute, and what better occasion than this blog's 21st birthday? So I headed to the Tower of London to watch the Honourable Artillery Company bang their big guns, officially to celebrate the first anniversary of the succession of the...
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Yesterday's Open House tally was six. • The dazzling property where the volunteer arrived with a key one minute before the official opening time and asked if we wouldn't mind going somewhere else for quarter of an hour. Let's do four of those in more detail (not necessarily...
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My latest numberplate-spotting game is trying to spot all the pairs of letters at the start of a vehicle registration plate.    AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AJ AK AL AM AN AO AP... You might expect there to be 26×26 = 676 possible combinations, but the letters I, Q and Z are never...
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Roughly 6000 people remain in temporary evacuation shelters ever since the Noto Earthquake on January 1st upended life for so many. And while the recovery is long and arduous, many are doing what they can to return to normal and that includes the many local businesses in the Noto...
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This post features a few random shots from the iPhone. Some are from my very old iPhone 5s, that recently died. And some are from the refurbished iPhone 8 that replaced it. As a photographer, I don't buy into the concept that phone cameras will ever totally replace 'real'...
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KING'S CROSS  STATION 🚂 £200   London's Monopoly Streets KING'S CROSS STATION Group: British Railways Purchase price: £200 Rent: £25 Annual passengers: 23 million Borough: Camden Postcode: N1 A (very) brief history: King's Cross station opened in 1852 to replace a temporary...
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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...
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The Kingsdown Avenue air crash 100 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1924, an Imperial Airways passenger flight crashed onto a hill...
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100 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1924, an Imperial Airways passenger flight crashed onto a hill near Purley killing everyone on board. It was one of Britain's earliest commercial air disasters and resulted in the very first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident. The...
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One Stop Beyond: Kempton Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Kempton Park, one stop beyond Hampton on the Shepperton line, a station which exists solely because of the...
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W12W13W14 Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured...
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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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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...
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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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Cricket Cornish Pasty Anyone? London's Bug Restaurant Has Just Gone Permanent Hop to it!
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a year ago
A procession, a march. The Lord Mayor's Show on the telly, now sandwiched inbetween Saturday Kitchen and Football Focus. But if you want to experience the full historic pageant in all its feathered floaty glory you need to turn up in the City and watch the multitudes go by....
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TfL Raises Penalty Fare To £100 £130m-£150m lost a year thanks to fare dodgers.
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I'm delighted to announce that diamond geezer now has a new non-chronological algorithm. From today an automated algorithm will determine the order in which posts appear in your feed. This algorithm uses various factors to prioritise content with the goal of showing you the...
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Preparing rail fares for contactless The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing. In today's post I'm going...
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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...
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Where To Get Your Fill Of The Best Food And Drink In Islington Marvellous macarons, superb sushi... and Karen's Diner.
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Having identified London's longest and shortest High Streets, I thought I'd better visit them. London's shortest High Street High Street (Wembley) [50 metres] The first thing that strikes you about High Street is it's on a hill, indeed this is likely how the road originally...
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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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The Archives With 100 Kilometres Of Historic London Documents LMA is a dream for lovers of London.
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TfL FoI requests in September 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024 1) The average e-scooter hire trip...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024 1) The average e-scooter hire trip lasts 16 minutes, is 1½ miles long and is undertaken at 6½ mph. 2) TfL plan to replace the Lodge Avenue flyover on the A13 with a like-for-like replacement, with construction starting...
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Pudding Mill Lane 10 The DLR's youngest station is ten years old today. Pudding Mill Lane opened on 28th April 2014...
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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...
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Wimbledon expands Last week the Deputy Mayor approved the All England Club's planning application to build 39 new...
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Last week the Deputy Mayor approved the All England Club's planning application to build 39 new tennis courts across Wimbledon Park. But was that decision right or was it wrong? extend across the road with a new show court and dozens of practice courts, and throw in a new...
Londonist
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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...
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Another Islington post Thanks for your suggestions for another Islington-based post. Allow me to sort-of tackle what some...
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a year ago
Thanks for your suggestions for another Islington-based post. Allow me to sort-of tackle what some of you asked. How about a walk around the gardens and squares of Islington? Please can you explore Thornhill Square? I've walked around it a few times, and wondered what it would...
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Doors (by Christian Marclay) White Cube, Masons Yard 6-30 September 2023 10am-6pm, closed Sunday and Monday Christian Marclay is always a treat, if what you enjoy is an exemplarily-crafted audio-visual montage. He's best known for The Clock, a 24 hour compilation of clips from...
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If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of touristy Kyoto, head to this newly opened oasis of books and coffee. Located slightly north of central Kyoto is the Donkou Kissa Fang, a serene cafe and private book collection built inside immaculately crafted townhouse and garden....
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Where's Gail's? The bakery chain Gail's has been busy spreading its sourdough tentacles across London over recent...
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The bakery chain Gail's has been busy spreading its sourdough tentacles across London over recent years. It had been doing this successfully and also quietly until it dared to suggest opening a branch in Walthamstow Village whose residents promptly set up a petition to campaign...
diamond geezer
24 things to see in SE24 Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 24 (because N tops out at N22). Come with...
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Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 24 (because N tops out at N22). Come with me to Herne Hill SE24. 24 things to see in SE24 1) Visit Brockwell Park finest parks perfectly plonked on a small hill with commanding views across much of central London. It...
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Where Have You Been This Weekend? It's been a busy weekend. It must be the highlight of your weekend, not just something you also...
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It's been a busy weekend. It must be the highlight of your weekend, not just something you also did. Where have diamond geezer readers been this weekend? stayed indoors Spent Monday to Friday walking the Cotswold Way so happy to have a rest this weekend. sheepdog to the...
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Loo symbols This is one of the toughest decisions I've faced recently. This is the entrance to the public...
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This is one of the toughest decisions I've faced recently. This is the entrance to the public conveniences under the Fulham Broadway Retail Centre. I should point out that I'm not in the habit of photographing public conveniences. But the toilets at Fulham were very quiet,...
diamond geezer
20 questions hide and seek I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there...
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I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there from 10am to 11am. I shall have Squeezy Pig with me. Your questions go in this comments box. comments if(postComments['89451144195511'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
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Another Dazzling Light Show Comes To This Central London Church This Winter Luxmuralis work their magic at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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I'm delighted to announce that diamond geezer now has a new non-chronological algorithm. From today an automated algorithm will determine the order in which posts appear in your feed. This algorithm uses various factors to prioritise content with the goal of showing you the...
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25 things to see in SE25 Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 25 (because N tops out at N22). Come...
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Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 25 (because N tops out at N22). Come with me to South Norwood SE25. 25 things to see in SE25 1) See the Clock Tower clock tower at the top of the High Street. It's a facsimile of Little Ben outside Victoria...
Londonist
Big Improvement In London's Roadside Pollution, Says Report NO2 levels plummet, but more to be done.
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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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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...
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2025 fares -->TfL's annual fare rise was announced yesterday. It's good news for buses and bad news for...
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All images © toha courtesy DDAA Hender Scheme’s flagship store in Kansai is an adaptive reuse of a sixty-plus-year-old one-story wooden house near Umeda Station in Osaka. With a spacious area of around 175m² and impressive high ceilings, the store has been designed to reflect...
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Wish You Were (Still) Here: Euston Station's Great Hall It would've been 175 years old this year... if it hadn't been reduced to rubble.
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QEOP after dark The Olympic Park is pretty after dark. This is Pudding Mill Lane, a massively-overengineered DLR...
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The Olympic Park is pretty after dark. This is Pudding Mill Lane, a massively-overengineered DLR station whose time only came when ABBA unexpectedly turned up. After dark it acts as a beacon of light amid a still-undeveloped Olympic neighbourhood. The word being reflected in...
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For a few weeks every November the water level in the Thames in west London is deliberately lowered. Draw-Off and it exposes more of the riverbed than usual. In order to carry out essential maintenance works on Richmond lock, weirs and sluices, it is necessary to hold up the...
diamond geezer
The Ivers Today is Buckinghamshire Day, a celebration of all things Northwest Home Counties, or at least it is...
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5 months ago
Today is Buckinghamshire Day, a celebration of all things Northwest Home Counties, or at least it is if you're a flagpole fetishist or a features writer with a gap to fill. It might sound historic but was actually conjured up in 2015 for no better reason than that on 29th July...
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What to Do On Padre Island if You Love Nature
a year ago
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Poet in residence A unique opportunity has arisen for creative narration, the post of poet in residence, five...
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A unique opportunity has arisen for creative narration, the post of poet in residence, five maintained by them: apply, Tower Bridge London Bridge Since medieval masons built a stone span with central chapel, Since pilgrims passed through in reverent migration, Since...
diamond geezer
Class 701 A new train has entered service on SouthWestern this week. class 701 - but as yet there is just one...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A new train has entered service on SouthWestern this week. class 701 - but as yet there is just one train. There should be 90 trains but their introduction is running way behind schedule, indeed the original intention was for the first 701 to enter service five years ago....
Londonist
The Gingerbread City 2023: London's Tastiest Exhibition Returns For Christmas Buildings made of biscuits, decorated with icing and sweets.
a year ago
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Ever Been To This Free London Yew Maze? A tree-ific day out, right alongside the Elizabeth line.
a year ago
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6 Best New Orleans Neighborhoods for Visitors
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Things To Do In London In The Christmas Holidays With Kids Theatre shows, exhibitions and Christmas events.
a year ago
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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
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What to Do if Your Flight Was Canceled or Delayed
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Spoon & Tamago
‘Mirai No Table’ Brings Childcare and Dining Together As One All images © Atelier Air Flo Nukasawa courtesy of Harema Design Office At the crossroads of...
a year ago
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a year ago
All images © Atelier Air Flo Nukasawa courtesy of Harema Design Office At the crossroads of childcare and dining, ‘Mirai no Table‘ (Table of the Future) is a café conceived from the dual perspectives by Harema Design Office. The café embodies the idea that our food choices shape...
The Forney Flyer
Latest from Uganda Here's a picture taken while I was doing an early morning pre-flight inspection 2 days ago, on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Londonist
Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
12 months ago
diamond geezer
Election triplepoint The General Election has seen Labour strengthen its hold over the capital with 59 MPs, while the...
6 months ago
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6 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...
Spoon & Tamago
The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum is Keeping the Spirit of Wooden Architecture Alive Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to...
a year ago
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a year ago
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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Embark on island-hopping adventures and explore ancient wineries in Croatia
10 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Repurposing Japan’s Glut of Empty Homes as Greenhouses The coronavirus pandemic had a drastic and immediate impact on Yuichiro Shimizu’s taxi business. As...
a year ago
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a year ago
The coronavirus pandemic had a drastic and immediate impact on Yuichiro Shimizu’s taxi business. As early as January 2020, Nichiei Taxi, a local business that has been servicing Saitama prefecture for over 50 years, saw their revenue drop by a staggering 80%. To save the company,...
Herbert Lui
Greatness means avoiding stupid mistakes consistently Shane Parrish writes at Brain Food, “Moments don’t make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks 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...
diamond geezer
The Royal Mail Experiment Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Have you ever wondered whether the Royal Mail are failing to deliver your post on time? I've long thought it suspicious that I go days without post then a whole batch arrives together, and that bills seem to arrive long after they were posted. But without evidence all this is...
diamond geezer
Let's vote again (Bow East version) HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Let's vote again Bow East you're about to get another chance to place a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
HYPERLOCAL HISTORY MONTH: Let's vote again Bow East you're about to get another chance to place a cross on a ballot paper, and all because 15302 voters put their cross on a ballot paper somewhere else. by-election is being held in Bow East ward for a seat on Tower Hamlets...
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7 Articles on Adventure and Wellness in the Nordic Countries
4 months ago
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The Brockley Three Peaks A Nice Walk: The Brockley Three Peaks (5 miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk,...
7 months ago
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7 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...
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Hotel Review: Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad, New York City
a year ago
diamond geezer
London's largest common What's London's largest common? In particular it depends on what common land is. The Open Spaces...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
What's London's largest common? In particular it depends on what common land is. The Open Spaces Society says this. "Common land is land that has an owner but over which other people have the right to use and take away certain natural produce. These people, known as commoners,...
diamond geezer
DIY blogpost For one day only I'm offering you the opportunity to write today's post. Ten or so paragraphs of...
a year ago
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a year ago
For one day only I'm offering you the opportunity to write today's post. Ten or so paragraphs of factual musings, hopefully entertaining and illuminating, for the wider readership to enjoy. I'll pick the topic, you provide the words. Don't worry, I'm not expecting you to write...
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Why Vacation to Corpus Christi, TX in the Fall
6 months ago
Londonist
Where To Watch Fireworks On Bonfire Night In London 2023 Mark Guy Fawkes Night with a bang.
a year ago
diamond geezer
The beetle After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my...
a year ago
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a year ago
After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my rucksack. It could have jumped from a bush I'd brushed against, it could have worked its way up from my boots or it could have crawled on when I put my rucksack down on the...
Londonist
Lord Mayor Demonstrates Einstein's Time Dilation Effects In The City's Tallest Skyscraper With a little help from the National Physical Laboratory.
9 months ago
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...
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,...
Londonist
A Giant Animated Snowman Will Light Up The Shard This Christmas Spoiler alert: it melts.
a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Boxing Day 2023 There's more to Twixtmas than Monopoly and mulled wine.
a year ago
Londonist
Fenwick Is Reopening As A Charity Shop For Two Weeks Maybe you'll score some cheap Dior.
11 months ago
Londonist
10 Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: February 2024 Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
11 months 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
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 13-14 January 2024 Circus, comedy, drag, live music and more.
12 months ago
Londonist
These Are The London Boroughs With The Most Public CCTV Cameras And they're not the ones you might think.
a year ago
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Next Week Cancelled Normal service now planned.
10 months ago
Londonist
Epping Ongar Lights Express - The Fairy Light-Covered Christmas Steam Train Ride Is Back! Most festive train EVER.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
150-Year Old Florist in Yanaka Blossoms with a New Cafe all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyo’s Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including...
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Why You Should Visit Greater Palm Springs
a year ago
Londonist
10 DLR Trains Have Now Got Front Seat 'Control Panels' You Can Play With Sorry, that your KIDS can play with.
11 months ago
Londonist
Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: March 2024 Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
10 months ago
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Discover Lake Como's Epic Hikes & Cuisine
a year ago
Londonist
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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Fancy Eating Cricket-Topped Hummus At This Bug-Based Restaurant? Celeb chefs dish up bugs at this pop-up.
a year ago
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Over 30 A heatwave in September is unusual but not unprecedented. Dates on which the temperature at...
a year ago
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a year ago
A heatwave in September is unusual but not unprecedented. Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C  JunJulAugSep 2010279/10   201127    2012 2518  2013 13 15/16/17 221  2014 18   2015 122  2016 18/19/202413 201717/18/19/20/216   2018 5/6/7/8 15 23 25/26/272/3...
Spoon & Tamago
An Ethereal Bubble Emerges from a Japanese Townhouse in New Art Installation by MAD Architects photos by Osamu Nakamura In Niigata prefecture’s Murono Village, a surreal scene has unfolded…or...
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5 months ago
photos by Osamu Nakamura In Niigata prefecture’s Murono Village, a surreal scene has unfolded…or should I say, inflated? From the rear of an abandoned townhouse a colossal, semi-transparent bubble has emerged, immediately transforming the quiet village into what could easily be...
diamond geezer
Unblogged 1984 31 unblogged things I did in December 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
31 unblogged things I did in December 1984 They didn't have blogs or the internet forty years ago, indeed my Sinclair ZX81 wasn't capable of much, but here are 31 things I didn't digitally publish at the time. To help you get your bearings I was 19 and December featured one week...
Londonist
Quirky Christmas Eats To Sink Your Teeth Into Around London From mince pie doughnuts to spiced Aperol spritzes.
a year ago
Londonist
Life Drawing With Wolves... In A London Hotel Anyone can get involved... even kids!
a year ago
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In-Depth Review of the Dorchester in London
a year ago
Londonist
Metro Memory: The Addictive Tube Game You're Going To Be Playing All Week "Just five more minutes..."
a year ago
diamond geezer
Donkey Lane To continue this year's Christmas perambulations, three little donkeys. Donkey Lane EN1 just off...
a year ago
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a year ago
To continue this year's Christmas perambulations, three little donkeys. Donkey Lane EN1 just off the Great Cambridge Road in the London borough of Enfield. Locally the local area is known as Carterhatch, and might be known more widely had the potential Overground station not...
diamond geezer
Dangleway speed Danglegeek (2) How fast? 2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am...
a year ago
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a year ago
Danglegeek (2) How fast? 2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am and after 5pm on weekdays and 10 minute crossings at other times. In 2015 they also introduced slower 'night flights' after 7pm, this time taking 12-13 minutes, as a further nod that...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 18-24 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
9 months ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Victoria Line A short chronology of the light-blue line.
a year ago
diamond geezer
It's this blog's 21st birthday It's diamond geezer's 21st birthday. I hope we get through the day without entering a period of...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's diamond geezer's 21st birthday. I hope we get through the day without entering a period of national mourning because that really put a damper on last year's celebrations. comments if(postComments['2129182084125'] != null){document.write(' (' + postComments['2129182084125']...
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...
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
TfL Poppy Roundels: Here Are The Underground And Overground Stations Where You'll Find Them London's trains and buses are 'wearing' poppies too.
a year ago
Londonist
Tate Britain Reveals Grenfell-Inspired Staircase Chris Ofili's Requiem unveiled.
a year ago
Londonist
Pubs With Real Fires In London: Cosy Up With A Pint By These Roaring Fireplaces Updated for winter 2023!
a year ago
diamond geezer
Inner monologue Hello to all of you who, like me, live by yourself. Not for us the chance of a friendly chat over...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Hello to all of you who, like me, live by yourself. Not for us the chance of a friendly chat over breakfast, nor a natter in the bedroom, nor an entire evening sitting in front of the TV offering a running commentary on everything you watch. Our inner monologue stays private,...
diamond geezer
Christmas trees
a week 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
diamond geezer
London's least busy bus stop Where is London's least busy bus stop? It is however a very difficult question to answer, much...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Where is London's least busy bus stop? It is however a very difficult question to answer, much harder than where's the busiest. last year when TfL released a Weekday Passenger Data spreadsheet providing the number of boarders at all 19,827 of their bus stops during the month...
Londonist
Nostalgic For The Elephant And Castle Underpass? You Will Be After Watching This Maccabees Video The ending almost had us weeping...
a year ago
diamond geezer
10,000 clicks Yesterday Google sent me an email. Congratulations! Your site reached 10K clicks from Google Search...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday Google sent me an email. Congratulations! Your site reached 10K clicks from Google Search in the past 28 days. This is because several people still turn up at diamond geezer via search engines rather than visiting deliberately - apparently over 300 people daily. They...
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Discover a Different Side of Puerto Rico
a year ago
diamond geezer
Ten apologies I'd like to apologise for the ten posts I could have brought you today but haven't written. 1)...
a month ago
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a month ago
I'd like to apologise for the ten posts I could have brought you today but haven't written. 1) Visit London have opened a temporary Ticket Shop in Covent Garden flogging stuff, mainly tickets to attractions and shows, and it looks hugely superfluous but it's not aimed at...
The Forney Flyer
Congratulations Hannah! Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
over a year ago
Londonist
This Free Quentin Blake Exhibition Lands In London At The End Of January You can even buy the artworks.
11 months ago
Spoon & Tamago
Coworking Space in Kinosaki Onsen Encourages Users to Take Bath Breaks Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
Photo: Madoka Nishiyama courtesy KIAC This might very well be the coworking space of our dreams. The Kinosaki International Art Center (KIAC) is a multipurpose community center located in Kinosaki Onsen, a quaint town on the coast of Japan that’s known for their natural hot...
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How These Black Artists Shaped Charleston’s Culture
a year ago