Category: London
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Mudchute Farm: Sheep & Skycrapers
A 32-Acre Urban Farm in the Shadow of Canary Wharf If you’re looking for unusual things to do in London, Mudchute Park and Farm is difficult to beat. A 32-acre working farm on the Isle of Dogs, it sits directly beneath the steel and glass of Canary Wharf—a place where sheep graze within sight of trading floors, and…
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Pete and Bas: South London’s Grandfathers of Drill and Rap
In a music scene where the spotlight usually shines on the young and the trendy, two unlikely stars are stealing the show—and they’re not just seasoned; they’re downright vintage. Meet Pete and Bas, the UK’s favorite grandfathers of rap and drill. These two pensioners from south London are defying expectations and redefining what it means…
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London’s Seals: Where to Spot Them
There is something faintly disobedient about seeing a seal in London. A seal belongs, surely, to postcard coasts and salt-bitten harbours, to places where people own binoculars on purpose. Not here. Not in a city of Uber Boats, glass towers and wet paving slabs. And yet the Thames, with its long memory and murky glamour,…
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Thames Mudlarking: Hunting for Buried Treasure
Welcome to the age-old, utterly addictive pastime of mudlarking, where ordinary folks turn into part-time treasure hunters on the riverbanks of London.
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Hackney Council Swaps Tractors for Horses
Hackney Council is trying something in Springfield Park that looks, at first glance, faintly surreal: heavy horses working the land instead of tractors. But this is not a heritage stunt or a bit of East London cosplay. It is a genuine trial in low-impact park management. At Springfield Park, horses are being used to manage…
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London’s Top 10 Brazilian Restaurants
London used to treat Brazilian food as a one-note spectacle: skewers, sirloin, and the slow collapse of your waistband. But the city’s Brazilian restaurant scene has grown up. It is still gloriously carnivorous in places, yes, but it is also regional, subtle, celebratory and full of dishes that deserve more than a passing glance between…
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Southbank Skatepark Turns 50
2026 marks 50 years of continuous skateboarding at the Undercroft by the Southbank Centre.
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The Foxes of London
Everything you need to know about London’s foxes..
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Where to See Cherry Blossoms in London: A Springtime Spectacle
Spring in London isn’t just about shedding your winter coat and pretending it’s warm enough for pub gardens (it never is). It’s also the season when the city erupts in a riot of pink and white, as cherry blossoms transform parks and streets into fairy-tale landscapes. If you’re looking to bask in the fleeting beauty…
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Clapham Common
There are parks in London designed to impress. Clapham Common was designed to be used. Two hundred and twenty acres of open grass roll between Clapham, Battersea and Balham, wide enough for sky to feel extravagant. No palace. No hill with a view. Just an honest sweep of green that has watched south London expand,…
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Croydon’s Cameo: How a South London Shopping Mall Became the Star of a Taylor Swift Video
Croydon’s Whitgift Centre — a cavernous 1970s shopping mall that feels as architecturally unresolved as its future — now flickers into global view as the unlikely backdrop to Taylor Swift’s latest music video for Opalite. What was once just another concrete behemoth in South London has been recast, if only briefly, as a neon-washed shrine to nostalgia, dancing…
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Brockwell Park
Brockwell Park covers approximately 50 hectares (around 125 acres). That makes it one of the largest parks in South London — big enough to host festivals, football pitches, and sun-drenched sprawl without feeling overcrowded (most of the time). Its layout is defined by elevation. The land rises steeply from the north towards the centre, creating one…
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Is Catford a Nice Place to Live? A Local Guide
Catford doesn’t sell itself easily. It’s not trying to be Brockley. It’s not quite Lewisham. And it’s certainly not pretending to be Dulwich. It sits there—south of the river, slightly bruised, oddly confident—waiting for you to decide what you think of it. Which is why people keep asking: Is Catford a nice place to live?…
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Crews Hill: London’s Garden State
There are parts of London that shout. Crews Hill does not. It sits at the city’s northern lip, technically in the London Borough of Enfield, quietly minding its compost. If Soho is sequins and Shoreditch is trainers with opinions, Crews Hill is a man in a fleece explaining mulch ratios. It is, officially, a small settlement…
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Brent River Park
Brent River Park is one of west London’s most significant green corridors: a continuous chain of parks, meadows and riverside habitats following the River Brent through the London Borough of Ealing. At roughly seven miles long, it links Greenford, Perivale and Hanwell, offering a rare stretch of uninterrupted open space in an otherwise densely built…
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Are Beavers Coming to Croydon?
Croydon is considering bringing beavers back to South Norwood Country Park, in what would be one of the most significant urban rewilding projects in the capital. The proposal follows the success of the beaver enclosure at Paradise Fields in Ealing, established by Citizen Zoo, where the animals have already begun reshaping wetland habitat within a carefully managed site. If…
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Is North Acton a Nice Place to Live? A Local Guide
North Acton feels like it arrived quickly. Glass towers where there used to be scraps of industry. Students where there used to be very little at all. It’s one of those places that didn’t evolve so much as appear—mid-construction, mid-identity. Which raises the obvious question: Is North Acton a nice place to live? Short answer:…
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Postman’s Park: London’s Secret Memorial to Everyday Heroes
Walk long enough through the City of London and you’ll find it: a small, sun-dappled square behind St Botolph’s Aldersgate, where the skyscrapers seem to pause to take a breath. Postman’s Park is easy to miss — hemmed in by office blocks, half-shaded, and utterly disinterested in your productivity. But stay a while and you’ll sense it…
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Crouch End: A Quick Guide
Imagine, if you will, a “village” nestled within London’s broader tapestry—less overtly trendy than Shoreditch, more mysteriously magnetic.
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The Spanish Community of London
In London a city of haste and hard edges, one might not immediately think of flamenco guitars, seaside siestas or midday “café con leche”. And yet: the Spanish community—those with roots in Spain, those from Spanish-speaking lands more broadly, and those drawn to the language and culture like a moth to a garlicky pan—has carved…
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Is Gospel Oak a Nice Place to Live? A Local Guide
Gospel Oak doesn’t try to charm you. It’s not Hampstead, though it brushes up against it. It’s not Camden, though you can feel it nearby. It sits in between—slightly overlooked, slightly misunderstood, and quietly getting on with things. Which raises the question people actually ask: Is Gospel Oak a nice place to live? Short answer: yes—if…
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Gravesend: Is it Really That Bad?
Nestled on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of London at the last reliable stop before the river becomes fully tidal and unruly, lies Gravesend. With its Victorian houses and riverside location it could be a charming place to live, but few people thinks so. Almost everywhere Londonopia write abouts the locals are warm…
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Why Camberwell is Cool
If you wander south-east from the river, past the busier hubs and into the quieter folds of the city, you’ll find Camberwell: a place that doesn’t demand attention, yet quietly steers a narrative of its own. In 2025 it was named the fourth coolest neighbourhood in the world by Time Out.Why is it cool? Because it…
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Is Perivale a Nice Place to Live? A Local Guide
Perivale doesn’t announce itself. It sits quietly between busier neighbours, rarely the first place people think of and almost never the one they argue about. Which, depending on your temperament, is either its weakness or its entire appeal. So the question becomes: Is Perivale a nice place to live? Short answer: yes—if you value calm,…
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Mercato Mayfair: Where the Sacred Meets the Sourdough
In the heart of Mayfair, amid the Bentley dealerships and discreet old money, stands St. Mark’s Church, a Greek Revival masterpiece turned gastronomic temple. Now known as Mercato Mayfair, it’s a place where sanctity has been swapped for street food, and incense replaced by the smell of wood-fired pizza. If the Victorians could see it, they…
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London’s Covid Memorial Wall Becomes Official
On the south bank of the Thames, opposite the smug limestone grin of Westminster, there stretches a wall of hearts. Thousands upon thousands of them — crimson, fading, repainted, imperfect. Each one stands for a life lost to Covid-19 in the UK. For three years it was unofficial, born not of policy but of heartbreak…
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Greenford: The Suburb That Dyed the World Purple
Somewhere between the A40’s eternal roar and the gentle green swell of Horsenden Hill, you’ll find Greenford — a place whose name sounds so unassuming it might as well be a postcode shrug. But don’t be fooled. This corner of West London has quietly changed the world, painted it mauve, and survived every reinvention modernity could throw…
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The Soviet Tank That Defied Southwark Council: The Strange, Glorious Life of “Stompie”
On a quiet patch of land off the Old Kent Road once stood a Soviet tank—yes, an actual tank—graffitied in pinks, greens, and slogans, facing down the local council like a stubborn Cold War relic that had lost its war but not its attitude. South Londoners called it Stompie, and for nearly three decades it was…
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The Farm House, Mayfair’s Gothic Oddity
In Mayfair, that district of polished limestone and quiet money, there stands a building that refuses to behave. At 22 Farm Street, a half-timbered fantasy squats between the restrained façades like a time-traveller who missed the memo on modernity. It’s called The Farm House — though there’s nothing agrarian about it except the faint whiff of myth…
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Too Much London: The Real Film Locations Behind Lena Dunham’s Netflix Drama
London doesn’t just set the stage for Too Much — it steals scenes.In Lena Dunham and Luis Felber’s Netflix drama, the city is the third lead: chaotic, magnetic, and perpetually late to its own story. It hums in the background of every heartbreak and hangover, reminding us that living here is an act of endurance and devotion.…