What’s It Like to Swim in Hampstead?
The thrill of swimming outdoors in freezing water in Hampstead is world famous.
Three Glastonbury Walks
Glastonbury is famous for its festival, but is wonderful all year round, and offers an easy walk around the famous Glastonbury Tor and this little hippie/history town.
Rooftop Astronomy in London
The astrologer and herbalist Nicholas Culpeper lends his name to this roof garden above a special pub in Spitalfields on Commercial Street in the heart of London.
Wild Swimming for Depression
Swimming outdoors in cold oceans, rivers, lakes and pools can lessen or cure depression.
A short walk from Victoria London Underground Station in Pimlico, you will find a charity shop with a difference.
London – Best Charity Shops for Women
How do we define ‘best’ charity shops in a city as big as London?
When you get off the train at Russell Square and follow the signs to the British Museum from the tube, two things occur: crowds and overwhelm.
Upstairs, on the Eurostar departure terminal, for Paris, at Kings Cross St.
If you want to be a few minutes away from London’s best train station, – and satisfied with a clean room, somewhere to hang your clothes and a pretty view – then head to any of the cheap hotels which line Argyle Square, near Kings Cross St.
No need to belly up to the bar for the world’s original James Bond martini.
Bestselling author and Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide contributor Tyne O’Connell finds Dandy Land in London and strikes a pose.
Royal Warrants have been appointed since the time of Henry VIII, who asked one Thomas Hewytt to serve the court with swans and cranes – ‘and all kinds of wildfoule.’