Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Ideas and suggestions for day trips outside of London across the rest of the UK.
Suggestions for things to do outside London during July
My now regular look ahead to events happening next month that would probably be in my events guide, if only they weren’t happening outside the psychological barrier of the M25 motorway. Oxenhope Straw Race 1st July The Oxenhope Straw…
St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering
This is a Norman era church, built from stone and flint that would seem to my mind to be in very short supply in the marshy flood plain it sits in, so must have been brought in by boat, making it quite an expensive church to have built at the time.
A small museum inside a military firing range
Lurking on the easternmost edge of the River Thames sits Foulness Island, a low lying marshy farmland that is also almost entirely controlled by the Ministry of Defence for weapons testing.
Huge military fly past over Windsor Castle in May
As part of the Jubilee Celebrations, three days of events will be taking place at Windsor Castle, culminating in a Regal display on Saturday 19th May.
A Grand Day Out – Taking the Boris Bikes to Paris
What would it be like to take two cycle hire bikes from London to Paris and return in a single day?
Open Day at the Army’s training Academy at Sandhurst
Not in London, but close enough to peek my interest at least, and looks interesting in several areas… the Army’s Officer training academy in Sandhurt is having an open day next month – and conveniently on a Sunday. Not just…
Climb to the top of the Tower in Windsor Castle
As an ex-Windsor resident myself, this rather excited me – as Windsor Castle is for the first time going to let tourists ascend to the top of the Round Tower that dominates the stony fortress. OK – it’s not London,…
That “Other” Open House Weekend
What is commonly called London Open House Weekend is officially called Open House London, and is organised by what was called Open House but is now called Open City.
Visiting a huge tunnel network under Rochester
Rochester is famous for many things - but most visibly for the modest-sized castle in its town centre. Less visible, but of considerable fame to the subterranean community is the huge network of tunnels that runs almost from the castle to the edge of town.
Visiting an Underground Cold War Bunker
Dotted around the country are 25 sub-surface bunkers that were designed to monitor the fallout from a possible nuclear attack and today I wandered down to Maidstone to visit the bunker that “controlled” the South-East of England, including a bit…
