London’s best rooftop bars are almost all within a five-minute walk of a Tube station — you just need to know which exit to take. This guide covers 12 rooftop bars near London Tube stations, each with its nearest stop, the line that gets you there and roughly how long the walk is. We’ve grouped…
The best food markets in London are almost all a short walk from a Tube station. That matters more than most guides admit. Knowing the market is great is only half the plan; knowing which exit to use, how long the walk is and which day it actually trades is what gets you there hungry…
London has a reputation for being an expensive city to visit — and in plenty of ways, it is. But the reputation is only half-earned. Pair the Tube network with the city’s astonishing concentration of free museums, markets, and green spaces, and it’s entirely possible to have a brilliant, full day out in London without…
London with young kids can be hard. Crowded platforms, long walks between lines, a toddler who’s had enough by 2pm — anyone who tells you it’s effortless hasn’t tried it with a buggy at rush hour. But the Tube, used properly, is also what makes a family trip to London work. Get the route right…
London has been written into existence more thoroughly than almost any city on earth. Dickens walked its streets researching debtors’ prisons. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group reinvented English fiction from a handful of Georgian townhouses. Arthur Conan Doyle invented the world’s most famous detective and gave him an address that tourists still queue outside…
East London doesn’t need an itinerary in the traditional sense — it needs a route. This is a part of the city that rewards wandering, but wandering works best when you know which station to start from. Over one weekend, the Central line, the London Overground, and the Hammersmith & City line will carry you…
Planning your first trip to London is genuinely overwhelming. The city has more world-class attractions than you could see in a month, every blog tells you something different, and the sheer size of the place — 32 boroughs, 9 million people, roughly 40 miles across — makes it hard to know where to even start….
Wondering about the best things to do in Shoreditch by tube? Here’s the first thing a local will tell you: Shoreditch doesn’t technically have a Tube station. The creative quarter of East London is bracketed by two stops instead — Shoreditch High Street on the Overground’s Windrush line, and Old Street on the Northern line…
You don’t need to leave the city to find chickens, goats and community gardens. London’s urban farms are tucked into unexpected corners — from riverside hideaways to hidden green spaces behind train stations — and every one of them is reachable by Tube, Overground or DLR in under an hour. Whether you’re after a quiet…
London isn’t short of famous viewpoints. The Shard, the London Eye, and Sky Garden are the names everyone books first — and they’re booked for a reason. But if you want a secret viewpoint in London without the ticket queue, the pre-booked time slot, or the crowd of phones held up at the same angle…