A new initiative that started over summer has seen the Brits flocking to parks, castles and riversides to watch cinema in grand locations under the stars. Unlike Saturday night at the movies however, Sasha Arms does care which picture she sees… (photos from the Nomad Facebook group) The UK is a big fan of just [...]
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London Restaurants: Look What’s Popped Up!
Despite being virtually unknown, hard-to-find and gone-in-a-flash, London’s pop up restaurants are the capital’s latest food phenomenon. Sasha Arms, editor of Foodie Magazine, previews the best for summer 2011. It’s time to admit it. Pop up restaurants in London are now well and truly embedded into the city’s culinary landscape, and have injected a buzz [...]
A Very Big House In The Country
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 [...]
Prison Breaks: The Inside Story
Whilst millions flock to historic prisons like Alcatraz and S-21 every year, Sasha Arms reports on one of the 21st Century’s most bewildering and controversial travel trends: visiting inmates at high security foreign jails. Defunct prisons have long made for unlikely success stories in the world of tourism: sites like Alcatraz, Robben Island in Cape [...]
No Country For Old Men…
…but plenty of dubstep and pounding techno. James Ashford packs his zimmerframe and heads to Bloc Weekend; one of numerous UK festivals that cater for Old Age Party-goers. (Photos by Freya Van Lessen). So I’m dozing in a slightly musty tent, my legs still caked in mud from the night before, when the familiar far [...]
