(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
London is absolutely chock full of iconic memorials. We’ve got the Cenotaph, Nelson’s Column, and even seven statues of a random Tory politician. But one 152-year-old memorial is currently causing controversy, being labelled as ‘offensive’ for ‘showing a Victorian view […]
At the end of last year, we learned that all of London’s trams would be getting replaced. And yep, while many Londoners might not know it, the city does in fact have trams. They operate south of the river from Wimbledon […]
In some very disgusting news, this week it was revealed that London restaurants have the worst food hygiene ratings in the whole UK. An annual report found London eateries to have an average food hygiene rating of 4.36 out of five. […]
If you’re travelling via Heathrow this summer, you might want to give yourself a bit of extra time to navigate the crowds. The London flight hub has just been crowned the fourth busiest airport in the world. As if flying […]
You might think lawn bowling is reserved for those over the age of 60 dressed head to toe in white, but one chic European variation, pétanque, is apparently this year’s sport of the summer. The game, where two teams compete […]
This week Selfridges revealed a 40ft custom-built column outside its legendary Oxford Street store, open to the public to climb for the next six weeks (until August 26). The unveiling on Thursday (July 18) came just ahead of temperatures climbing in […]
Bloomsbury, London’s intellectual hotbed, home of Virginia Woolf, the Suffragettes and Marxist UCL students, is due to get a massive glow up over the next five years. The area’s main landowners have come together to form the Bloomsbury London Partnership, which […]