Us Londoners sure do love an outdoor dip, after all – ’tis finally the season to splash around in outdoor pools and caption your Instagram posts: ‘costa del [insert borough name here]’....
Al fresco swimming first became a trend back in the 1930s, and councils up and down the country set up hundreds of outdoor pools for their residents to enjoy – nowhere with greater enthusiasm than London Town. A number...
When the sun shines and the temperature rises, you can bet half the city is going to head to London’s lidos for a cool down. Still, for those with more wisdom and a hardier spirit, these top wild swimming spots wi...
Now I really don’t want to jinx it for us but it seems as though the weather has finally read the room and decided to cooperate, so you know what that means: all across the city, Londoners are slapping on their fa...
There are few things in life more satisfying than sunsets and fortunately, London has some of the best. Ok, so we may be a little bit biased, but when the weather’s playing ball, you’ve got a can of the cold stuff&helli...
When the sun is shining, Londoners flock to these Thames-side pubs and restaurants for outdoor drinking and dining. And although east and north London offer their own pretty canalside pubs, our city has always been buil...
Now if you’re not singing Hey Ya by this point, you aren’t human. Anyway, summer has, after a few false starts, finally hit London (in the first week of September?!), and it’s high time you went out an...
Going underground may put you a few feet and 10°C closer to hell, but there is a consolation to be found with that rarest and most treasured subterranean force: air conditioning on the Tube. In the midst of the current...
We’ve finally got some prolonged sunshine and HEAT here in London. It’s a shame that this energy wasn’t present in July when it rained and rained and rained and rained, but it’s nice all the same...
September al-bloody-ready? Where did the time go? It’s not officially autumn until late September, so there’s no need to head inside or start making buckets of pumpkin-spiced lattes just yet. And the weather may be cool...