You know we’re partial to the urban hike and indeed, the fanciful tour but we’re also suckers for the good cause walk. If charity events of the Vertical Rush or firewalk variety aren’t up your street, perhaps a 10 mile sponsored stroll round some of …
Despite a last minute hitch with the organiser incapacitated and unable to attend, the London Red, Urban Story walk hiked it through housing and industrial estates from Waltham Cross to Shadwell yesterday, following a line through some of the city’s most deprived areas, as classified …
By Mondoagogo Having started as an underground movement, guerrilla gardening is now firmly out in the open as more rebel bands take up the trowel transforming neglected urban spaces into gardens and flowerbeds. It’s timely then that Richard Reynolds, the movement’s spiritual leader, is giving …
Shades of Patterson by WowtheWorld It’s a good 6 months since the Patterson Challenge therefore high time we really stretched our legs again. Not in the name of historic or literary retracing this time, but to get a feel for the Urban Earth project “to …
Last night at 7pm a torrential downpour drenched a hardy bunch of walkers gathered beneath the trees on Camberwell Green. But the first Straycation went ahead regardless. A spate of precipitation wasn’t going to stop these story hungry folklore seekers pursuing tales of myth and …
Image by Matt from London The Natural Health Service might sound like some dodgy alternative medicine clinic, but it’s the name of a new scheme to get people fit by taking advantage of their local parks. A study by Natural England found that you’ve a …
By Jason Webber via the Londonist Flickrpool So how’s it going out there? At the prime commuter time of 8.30am we Twitter searched for ‘tube strike’ to find out. And, besides a revival of interest in the London Underground Song, there are naturally grumbletweets: TitanUK …
Soho Theatre is 40 years old this year! And to mark the big occasion, they’re taking us on a walk… Last time they did this, we rediscovered the magic of Chinatown in Moonwalking , and so we have high hopes for Sohostreets which promises to …
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 …
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 …
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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