The Ultimate Guide to London’s Gay Neighbourhoods (Gaybourhoods)
London is a cracking city. It is also huge – so huge that when you first arrive it can be hard to find your place. If you are a gay tourist/traveller/nomad type visiting London Town for the first time, you won’t want to waste any time in finding the right Gaybourhood for you. Whether you’re...
Kingsland Road: A taste of Vietnam in London Town
Photo courtesy of noodlepie. The amount of time I’ve spent on this one road in my adult years amounts to, well, a lot of time. Why? Because it’s fun, noisy, cool, and a bit smelly – it’s everything I want a city street to be. Kingsland Road begins in Shoreditch, the epicentre of London Cool,...
5 Places for a Daytime Date in East London
If you’re in London Town for a while, you might fancy making the most of the city’s bash-your-head-against-the-wall dating scene. I can’t say I had the best of luck dating in East London, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t go on my fair share of dates. If, like me, you end up absolutely obliterated...
London Fields, The Trendiest Park in all the Land
The city that I tend to call my home is greyer than most and yet it is perfectly set up for outdoor living. London Town is chock-full of green spaces, and on those rare and special occasions that the sun chooses to nod its head in Britain’s direction, there are a huge number of parks...
Photos: A spot of Hackney street art
Street art, graffiti, whatever you want to call it – I love it. For me, graffiti represents the changeable nature of the city, how a city can be a canvas manipulated by its inhabitants as opposed to a static backdrop. This is exactly what a city should be (and why I’ll never be able to...