As Brent is named this year’s London Borough of Culture, Sarah Riches explores the area – from the UK’s biggest stadium and an incredible temple to a street food hub and biker café. If you flew into London, I bet you saw the arch that soars above Wembley Stadium. While you can watch a match […]

Deck the halls with boughs of hashtags! Welcome to our London Christmas guide to the most Insta-worthy photo opportunities in the city.   100% certified Instagram gold Don’t miss Regent Street’s monumentally elegant Christmas lights (pictured above). These look best if you take a photo from the pedestrian reservation that runs up the middle of […]

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Fancy a New Year’s Eve in Britain that’s a little bit different? Rosie Collins discovers some unusual ways to welcome in 2020 Bored of the classic New Year’s Eve countdown and fireworks displays? Fear not, because there are plenty of utterly bonkers traditions still going strong all around the UK that you can dip your […]

Highly-anticipated each year by locals and tourists alike, Hyde Park Winter Wonderland has dominated London’s Christmas scene for over a decade and it gets bigger each year. Taking over one of the capital’s largest Royal Parks (from 21 Nov to 5 Jan 2020), Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland is a quintessential London experience.       There’s […]

Ask any American and they’ll almost certainly be a fan of Thanksgiving. So, how could London possibly improve upon a day of turkey, family, turkey, pumpkin pie, turkey and more turkey? Simple: with a side dish of St Paul’s Cathedral. St Paul’s Cathedral‘s special US Thanksgiving Day Service is held every year on the last […]

Diwali on Trafalgar Square returns this Sunday 3 November (1pm-7pm). It’s a vibrant celebration of the Festival of Lights, a key season that is observed by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists and represents the victory of good over evil and light over darkness. This free festival features a jam-packed schedule full of cultural acts – […]

Start your trip to London with a bang at one of these fireworks festivals

London Design Festival (14-22 Sep) twitches with technological innovation. Showcasing the city’s creativity, it generates more than 400 events around London. One of the festival’s aims is to show how technological breakthroughs are influencing design and transforming our worlds. South Kensington’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is a major hub for the festival and a […]