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Have lunch al fresco, not al desko.... Lunch Hour by Simon-K. One of the winners of Slow Exposure.

Preview: Slow Down London

Have lunch al fresco, not al desko…. Lunch Hour by Simon-K. One of the winners of Slow Exposure. Now the initial excitement of Slow Exposure is past, it’s time to get gradually interested in Slow Down London’s programme of events of which our marvellous exhibition …

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The Patterson Walk Redux

On Sunday 1st February, despite portents of snow, 15 game walkers gathered at Camden Tube station at a lie in defying 9am just for the fun of following in bygone footsteps and completing the Patterson Challenge. With equipment ranging from solid walking boots and ski …

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Pattersonists’ Progress #3

Shortly after we last heard from them, our resolute neo-Pattersonists re-joined their original planned route at Limehouse and marched on through Wapping, steadfast in the face of blinding sunshine and swirling blizzards. As they approached Tower Bridge, it seems that the elements and growing fatigue …

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Pattersonists’ Progress #2

Since our last update a few hours ago, our intrepid neo-Pattersonists have taken the river boat from London Bridge to Greenwich, where they stopped for unauthentic lunchtime sustenance at one of the locale’s many noodle emporia, before taking a gawp at the Greenwich Hospital Painted …

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Pattersonists’ Progress #1

Despite the chill, our Patterson Challenge team set out from Camden as planned this morning, shortly after 9am. No less than 15 well-insulated neo-Pattersonists braved the cold, and by 10am they had skirted the east side of Regent’s Park and the west side of Fitzrovia, …

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The Patterson Challenge: Come Snow Or Shine

Tomorrow is the day. We’ll be up bright and early, braving the 1st of February chill to see if we can complete the Patterson Challenge. We’ll be twittering our progress if our fingers don’t freeze so follow us from the warmth of your snuggly home …

By edscoble via the Londonist Flickrpool.

The Patterson Challenge Is On: Sunday 1st February

By edscoble via the Londonist Flickrpool. Start breaking in your best walking shoes, grab yourself a pac a mac and polish your camera lens – The Walk takes place next weekend. Gathering at Camden Tube station on Sunday 1st February at 9am we’ll be treading …

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The Patterson Challenge

150 years ago today, Victorian tourist, James Patterson returned to Manchester after a festivity packed sight-seeing sojourn in Camden with friends. It’s quite likely you took a post prandial walk over Christmas. Perhaps you hit Oxford Street to look at the sales, wander the deserted …

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Deptford X – A Really Top Notch Art Festival

Deptford. Yes, that bit opposite the Isle of Dogs that isn’t smart Greenwich. Borders Blackheath, yeah? Bet you didn’t know it’s a contemporary visual arts hotspot, did you? If you did, then you’ve clearly been to Deptford X at some point in its 10 year …

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Green Tours Of London

We like our London walks. Usually, they’re full of folklore and witchery, stories and histories or the straight tourist tirade guff. But by the pricking of our thumbs, a new kind of walk this way comes! Future London Green Tours are being launched to coincide …

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O 2 GO

Londonist likes to breathe. This Londonist is pneumatically challenged, and so she is especially fond of a good puff of the invisible stuff. So when the invisible stuff becomes visible, and London is shrouded in an ominous sulphurous blanket, we either stay indoors, or wander …