Exploring London Since 2007
To coincide with last weekend’s Cally Festival, which saw part of North London’s Caledonian Road closed off to give the local community the opportunity to let their hair down, Rob Smith from the official City and Islington Guide’s Association (CIGA) put on a guided walk of the area – ‘Up The Cally’. I won’t regale you with […]
For some years I used to look forward to the regular arrival of a small A5 magazine on my doorstep – through short stories, poetry, photography, illustrations and more, Smoke: A London Peculiar used to tell strange and tall tales about this wonderful city of ours. Although editor Matt Haynes no longer produces the magazine, […]
City Cruises, the guys who run most of the tourist boats that travel up and down the Thames in London, have come up with a new concept that’s rather less sedate – the new Thamesjet service, which rockets you up and down the river at speeds of up to 40 knots… The first in what […]
Life can be so difficult sometimes – take this week for example, when I was asked to join in with a brewery tour at the Meantime Brewing Company in North Greenwich hosted by another Greenwich-based company, Black Vanilla. It was such a difficult decision… I’ve visited the folks at Meantime before, so I won’t recount […]
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