London Life

At Ed Atkins’ new show at Tate Britain, I found myself standing in front of a wall covered in Post-it notes, thinking about language learning. Not the kind of thought I expected to have, surrounded by creepy CGI avatars and immersive sound design. But...

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Happy Lunar New Year! 2025 brings the Year of the Wood Snake, and London is ready to celebrate in style. Covent Garden, just a hop and a skip from Chinatown, is the perfect base to immerse yourself in one of the world’s most vibrant cultural events....

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Reading John’s blog the other day got me thinking about my favourite museums in London. Then I started thinking about my favourite galleries, bars, restaurants… you get the idea! So, I thought we could share more of our favourite spots around town....

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Ah, New Year’s resolutions: the annual ritual where we vow to change our lives… until mid-January. But still, we couldn’t start the year without a resolutions blog (mine is to eat more cheese from here). What if we could peek into the past and see what...

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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” Samuel Johnson’s timeless words have graced countless postcards and posters, including a rather shabby one that hung in my grandparents’ English language school in the 1980s. Back then, those words...

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