The Taipei Times has picked up this great story originally printed in The Guardian about Britain’s first-ever delegation of official Chinese tourists. Chinese visitors had previously only been able to come here on student or business visas but it turns out that six months ago …
We love a good bit of technology here at Londonist even when we don’t quite know exactly how it works… iPods for example. How do you get so many tracks into such a small white box and then get so many small white boxes attached …
The London Eye has been voted the world’s “best tourist attraction”. Obviously we think that’s great. We love the Eye (we wouldn’t have put it in our logo if we didn’t) and about the only thing wrong with it is that designers David Marks and …
So Gordon Brown delivered a budget today, a particularly well attended budget, and one of the shortest on record clocking in at just 50 minutes. Any pre-election budget usually has one eye on the electorate and this was no exception being referred to as a …
This week sees the start of the Chinese Year of the Rooster and Chinatown is the centre of a range of events planned for London’s first China Week. It’s an eclectic range of events that include Puppet Theatre, Lantern making, Chinese films and art exhibitions …
The New 7 Wonders Project is, as you might imagine, a project to find the Seven Wonders of the modern world. As with all things in ‘the modern world’ the winners of this exercise will be decided by an international public vote. The poll, which …
Londonist is always keen to hear amusing tales of our more highly paid, sharper dressed fellow Londoners working over in the city, which usually involve paying out an amount equivalent to the Gross Domestic Product of Chile ($156.1 billion, 2002 estimate) on a night out. …
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