Inside The View From The Shard
A few thoughts on London’s loftiest attraction.
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How Big? The Relative Footprints Of London Landmarks
How many Trafalgar Squares can you fit into Wembley Stadium, and other crucial questions.
London Loses Out In Top Landmarks Poll
Don’t like our clock? How about if we field 18 of them? Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Tower Bridge…can you hear us London. Your landmarks took one hell of a beating. A new poll, canvassing 10,000 tourists, finds that London just isn’t interesting enough – at …
Tell-Us-A-Fib Friday
A blog, humbly devoted to all things London, Londonist is – could you have guessed? Meet the fib – no, not the kind you told at uni when submitting yet another late essay – but the poetic kind: a 6-line verse reminiscent, in its constriction …
Landmarks ‘Falling off Maps’
Bubble-wrap your A-Z, Londoners: traditional maps of its ilk are on their way out, being stampeded over by new-fangled mapping technologies like Google Maps. And what’s worse, new electronic maps are missing off London’s historic landmarks. The president of the Royal Cartographic Society, Mary Spence, …
Trafalgar Square Fountain Mountain
Those Traf Square fountains, eh! Cor, aren’t they fab. Tourists can’t get enough of ‘em, and they’re a convenient birdbath for the square’s remaining pigeons plus a natural magnet for mischief-making teens with bottles of soap powder. Still, they could perhaps be spruced up a …
Tourists Trapped
Visitors to the London Eye yesterday were treated to an extended journey courtesy of a tyre which required repair mid-ride. Whilst a normal trip flies by in roughly half an hour, this fateful trip left sightseers watching nearly 60 minutes tick past on Big Ben …
Pub Quiz Fever
Londonist doesn’t like to blow it’s own trumpet, but by golly we throw a darn good pub quiz. No less than 11 teams (comprising 62.5 people) were pitted against each other in a battle of London knowledge that could, frankly, have rivalled Going for Gold. …
Touch Up London #56
The biscuits are coming. Why? All will be revealed at tonight’s Londonist quiz. (Actually, there’s no mystery. We have a round where famous landmarks are obscured by biscuits. Today’s Touch Up London is just a lame filler and an excuse to get in another last …
Stop The Clock! Stop The Clock!
Londonist loved Treasure Hunt. It was so exciting. Annika Rice running around in a jump suit, cameraman Graham up her arse and a shiny helicopter to scoot from one end of Wiltshire to the other solving clues, avoiding scary Wincy Willis and hunting for, what …
No Cab Nightmare
It’s not really news that hailing a cab in the middle of the night is getting harder. We can remember the days when you could step out of a bar at midnight or tumble out of a club rather later and still expect to find …
