Let's be honest, London life can get on top of you from time to time. Whether it's the morning commute on a packed tube... [more]
Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland is a great way for Londoners to get in the Christmas mood, with lots of fun rides and attr... [more]
With around half the day bereft of sunlight, it's a good job London has as many things to do in the dark as it does when... [more]
The BFI London Film Festival returns in October, offering another hearty helping of outstanding movie entertainment, and... [more]
Pop-up cinemas seem to be popping up turning up all over the place recently, with a select group of movie fans choosing ... [more]
To have a go at street photography, you don't have to necessarily be standing in the road when you take your shot. Thoug... [more]
It's for genius schemes like this that the Internet really comes into its own. Home Run is a new initiative that aims to... [more]
Now, don't be misled by the title. We're not suggesting you take your camping gear and climb over the fence of someone's... [more]
When it opened in July 2012, the Shard became the tallest building in Europe. With an observation deck at the top of the... [more]
When it comes to traversing London's River Thames, you can drive across one of its many bridges, take a bus, or hop on a... [more]
Sometimes in life, it's worth doing something just because you can. One such opportunity is at the O2 arena in Greenwich... [more]
Leave Oxford Street behind, forget Covent Garden and steer clear of Leicester Square. Instead hop onto the Victoria line... [more]
Watching jumbo jets roar in to Heathrow airport just a few feet above your head, seconds from touchdown, is a fun wa... [more]
As we're all too aware, sunny days in a London summer are like the city's bus service - you wait ages for one to come an... [more]
This tasty little number is great hot or cold, which means you can enjoy it all year round. I'm salivating just thinking... [more]
If you fancy kicking off 2019 with a snazzy new wardrobe, then get yourself along to the upcoming Brixton Vintage Kilo S... [more]
Billed as the UK's largest mass participation winter event and the largest 10km run in the capital, the London Winte... [more]
Tootling into town at the end of February is the London Classic Car Show.
Look at the vehicles on the road today ... [more]
How does Mick Jagger do it? Now over 70, the Stones frontman still struts around the stage with all the vigour and v... [more]
If you've never done a half marathon, or even if you have, why not grab your running shoes and take on Hackney's half ma... [more]
Watching a movie on a roof might not be the first idea that springs to mind when it comes to arranging a night out, but ... [more]
While it may not form part of a particularly convincing long-term business plan if presented to the investment arm of a ... [more]
London has so many great venues for winter skating, with the Tower of London offering what must be one of the most idyll... [more]
PhotoLive 2013 wants to help you improve your photography skills, whether you're an occasional smartphone snapper or a t... [more]
The Raindance Film Festival, held in the heart of London, is a popular event on the city's entertainment calendar having... [more]
Dubai-based airline Emirates has just opened a new attraction in London – the Aviation Experience.
Located in Green... [more]
A fear of flying is no fun at all. Whenever the subject comes up, the same old stats are trotted out, "You're far likeli... [more]
Hyper Japan, taking place at Earl's Court in July, is a huge cultural event that's been growing in popularity over the y... [more]
If you love your beer, going along to the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia in London this August really is a no br... [more]
The iTunes Festival returns to the Roundhouse in September, with organisers Apple recently announcing the first of many ... [more]
The Real Food Market, which takes place weekly behind the Royal Festival Hall close to Waterloo station, not only has qu... [more]
If you live in London, the chances are you take all its wonderful offerings for granted, and as a result rarely get out ... [more]
If you're looking for a classy venue for that really special occasion (little Johnny's exams triumph, Dad's birthday, Gr... [more]
If you've never been to Wimbledon – and I'm talking about the annual tennis tournament here, not the village – it's defi... [more]
With the Taste of London restaurant festival this year celebrating its tenth anniversary, we should be in store for some... [more]
The Rolling Stones are set to play Hyde Park on July 6th, 44 years after they last played there. The huge concert is par... [more]
I have to admit, I didn't used to understand the appeal of basketball. When I first clocked eyes on the sport in the 198... [more]
Whenever darts comes up in a conversation, there's always at least one person who'll scoff at the idea of calling a game... [more]
Dubbed 'the Oscars of the design world', this year's Design Museum extravaganza highlights the most inspiring, most crea... [more]
As a small child, I used to love playing Cluedo, and have to this day never fully understood why it almost always seemed... [more]
Most people, when they travel from London to Brighton, go by car, take the train or hop on a coach.
But there is ano... [more]
London is believed to have well in excess of 300 markets, each one with a character of its own, and each one full of its... [more]
As sleepovers go, Dino Snores at London's Natural History Museum must surely be one of the most exciting available.
P... [more]
In recent years the excellent Natural History Museum in South Kensington has discovered that there are indeed 24 hours i... [more]
It was Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers, who once said that there are two certainties in life: Death... [more]
The great thing about a game of chessboxing is that if you don't like the move your opponent just made you can smack him... [more]
For sure London can be expensive but there are also plenty of things to do where little or no money is involved, and the... [more]
There was something rather thrilling about watching the International Space Station (ISS) pass overhead recently.
I ... [more]
As the famous Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race gets underway on the Thames on Sunday 31st March, two goats at Spitalfields... [more]
The Royal College of Art's Secret Postcard event is a chance for you to bag a postcard by a famous international artist.... [more]
How often do you take a moment to look up at the night sky and gaze in awe at all its twinkly delights?
Of course,... [more]
Whether you're crazy about Camembert, bonkers about Brie or simply a Feta fanatic, there's something happening down at t... [more]
One of the best things about the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House is the sheer variety of the ... [more]
Little Venice in Maida Vale is a wonderful spot in the centre of London, a place not often visited by tourists and one t... [more]
Prosthetic science and bionic technology has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, so much so in fact that a team of... [more]
The TNT Travel Show at Islington's Business Design Centre in March is the perfect event if you're looking for some fresh... [more]
The newly formed Sunday Assembly is a church for atheists. It may sound like an odd concept at first, but the folks behi... [more]
The fact of the matter is, when it comes to dancing, the vast majority of us have two left feet. Sadly, whenever I take ... [more]
Disco Loco is all about family fun. Taking place at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club on the first Sunday of every month ... [more]
The Science Museum, located in London's South Kensington neighbourhood, is one of Britain's oldest and most popular muse... [more]
He's a singer, he's an actor, he's a musical innovator. He's Ziggy Stardust and he's Major Tom; he's the man who fell to... [more]
The newly opened Shard skyscraper situated in the heart of London is, at 310 metres, the UK's tallest building. From 1st... [more]
Wallpaper looking a bit sorry for itself? Shelves about to fall from their rotting hinges? Carpet got one too many stain... [more]
Back pain gets everyone sooner or later. It can come when you're young, old, first thing in the morning, last thing at n... [more]
You know how those few days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day can feel a little "no man's land", a bit "neither here... [more]
If the world's most famous mime artist, Marcel Marceau, were to be asked what he thought of the London International Mim... [more]
A few years ago a friend invited me to go along to the Roundhouse to see a show by a theatre group from Argentina by the... [more]
As anyone living in Blighty well knows, British winters are about as pleasant as having a cold bucket water poured over ... [more]
For my money, a movie should never be longer than 90 minutes. Okay, 100 at a push, but really, a decent writer and a tal... [more]
There's so much happening in London at the best of times, but in December, in the run up to Christmas, the choice of eve... [more]
