So you’re about to get ready for a big night on the town, and the age-old question of what to wear rears its head. When it comes to style in the city, a little thought about where you’re going can be rewarding – London is a city with a different vibe in every compass direction, […]

When you live the fast-paced life that many Londoners do, it can be hard to find time to take exercise before and after work. When that alarm goes off in the morning, you have to be a particularly steely character to leap out of bed and go to gym. Worse, after work is a whole […]

While skateboarding and rollerblading are common sights on the streets of London, in the recent past you might have spotted people getting involved in a new type of athletic activity – developed out of military obstacle course training, participants in the rather scary-looking parkour and freerunning treat the streetscape like a gym – leaping gaps, […]

Yesterday the Office For National Statistics (ONS) released the second set of data from the 2011 national census, which reveals some very interesting information about London. If you didn’t know it already, the data confirms that London’s population is growing increasingly diverse. Here are some of the rather startling key facts: Only 78 percent of […]

Do you enjoy going out with your friends and having a good sing-a-long, but are getting a little bit jaded fiddling with karaoke machines? If so there’s a new night coming up that will be just right – Bama Lama Sing Song, taking place at the popular Miller pub near London Bridge on Saturday 26 […]

You can’t fail to have seen all the festivities around the London Underground’s 150th anniversary which have been taking place in the last week (even including a steam-driven journey that some people were lucky enough to take along the system’s earliest section). To mark the occasion Hostelbookers have devised an amusing little game, which I’ve […]