London shopping: keeping it local
Wards Corner is the latest London market to come under threat. The Latin American enclave in Tottenham is the being earmarked for “development”. Londoners have already lost a large chunk of...
View ArticleGoing independent: the café revolution
The UK is ready for a coffee house revolution. Actually, scrap that and let's call it the café revolution. It was our striving to recreate the All-American 'coffee house' that lead to the problem. Now...
View ArticleFrom strip clubs to badminton: new meet-up groups in London
I'm a big fan of social-networking site MeetUp. Not that I use it very much, but I simply feel comforted to know it exists, so that if I ever have spare time on my hands I can always find interesting...
View ArticleGoing Latino in London
This week sees the launch of Candela Live, "Britain’s first online Latin American and Spanish lifestyle magazine". It looks like a great port of call for Latino expats and travellers missing the food,...
View ArticleGoing local with World Cup fans in London
France fans during the Uruguay game. Copyright Simon Way Two friends of mine in London have embarked on a fantastic project to document every World Cup game from the perspective of the nation’s fans....
View ArticleCupcake porn in Buenos Aires
Photo: Muma’s Cupcakes via Flickr Cupcakes are selling like …. well… like hotcakes here in Buenos Aires. Spongy, little hotcakes. For proof, head down to Muma’s Cupcakes in Palermo. I recommend...
View ArticleHelp Londoners find a name for their bikes
London gets its own bike scheme today. Finally. Hurrah. It’s modelled on the Bixi here in Montreal, and for that reason I wrote a comparative piece for the Guardian today: In Montreal’s tracks. There’s...
View ArticleGrammar-related tourism: the next big thing
Following on from my recent post about travel buzzwords, I wanted to share a link to an amusing piece about five new types of travel. ‘Bungee climbing’ and ‘cramping’ get a mention, but my favourite...
View ArticleGarufa Grill: Buenos Aires meets London
Today, I visited Garufa, an Argentinian café that has sprung up in Highbury since I’ve been away. It actually opened around two years ago and is brought to us by the same people that launched the very...
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