Closing times, huge queues, expensive bar tabs… Who needs it? Chris Osburn spurns another night out in London to live it up in the shires instead. The country house party has returned, and it’s in full swing. Terribly fun and mildly frisky, White Blackbird has been hosting swanked-up weekend getaways for a couple of years [...]
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Frankfurt Museum Challenge: The Curse of the Yellow Wellies
After hours of training, intrepid UTB explorer Sasha Arms is ready to take on all 13 museums of Frankfurt’s famous ‘Museumsufer’ embankment… The question is, are they ready for her? I practised my strategy for the Museumsufer challenge for several arduous days before my visit to Frankfurt. My friends wondered why I carried a pedometer [...]
Man & Mountain Climbing in Iran
Axis-of-evil-dwelling, nuclear-power-hoarding western haters, or friendly and accommodating folk at odds with their restrictive government? Michael Bailey strives to overcome mountains, men and media perceptions in Iran. I had no idea what they were shouting, of course, but they were carrying knives that spoke to me in a manner that broke through the language barrier. [...]
London StreetWars: The Bullets Rain
They’ve taken place in New York, LA, Chicago, Paris, Vienna and, now in 2010, in London. StreetWars is a three-week long water assassination competition and our reporter, Sameer Patel, is a marked man. (Photos by RJ Fernandez, released courtesy of The Shadow Government). Monday morning, a ringing wakes me up. Bleary eyed, I answer my [...]
Night Riders: The Dunwich Dynamo
Insane in the bike lane? James Ashford joins 1,399 other cyclists in a 120 mile night ride from London to Dunwich… I’m going to the pub tonight, specifically the Inn on the Park in London Fields. I’m going to ride my bike there, sink two or three pints and then, at about nine pm, point [...]
