(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
It’s been well over a year since the last tube strikes were called for London (and even longer since they actually struck the capital), but our period of peace has officially come to an end. In August a wave of industrial action was […]
And just like that, London’s recent, blissfully strike-free period on the tube will swiftly come to an end. At the end of August the RMT union announced a week-long period of industrial action on the capital’s transport network, and it starts this weekend. RMT […]
If you’ve spent any time in Dungeness, you’ll know why many people call it Britain’s only ‘desert’. Although not technically a desert, its long stretch of shingle, peppered with shipwrecks, is so spookily empty that it’s often compared with barren, sandy […]
Did you just turn 30? Are you having a quarter-life crisis? You’ve probably thought about running a marathon (or half). We’re only teasing, but the long running races are showing no sign of letting up their grip on the collective consciousness […]
Two years ago, Shakespeare’s Globe tried a bold experiment: recruit a gang of actors – many of them quite famous – to perform a one-off performance of Twelfth Night in an old school Elizabethan ‘cue script’ style. What the hell is that, […]
It may have recently been named the sixth best airport in the UK and the 36th best in the entire world, but London Gatwick is still the worst airport in the country for delays. Travel insurance company Go.Compare looked at data from the Civil Aviation Authority for […]
When Guy Fawkes was preparing to blow up the Houses of Parliament all those centuries ago, he probably didn’t foresee that 420 years later, thousands of Londoners would gather on a hill, serenaded by a Dolly Parton tribute act, watching […]