Category: Outdoors
Explore London’s sites with Tally Ho! Cycle Tours
Tally Ho! Cycle Tours provide fun, small group, guided bike tours of London’s iconic sights and hidden wonders. Using Twenties-styled British-built Pashley bicycles, cover ground easily and comfortably without breaking a sweat or getting sore feet. Follow your guide safely along cycle paths and quiet back streets to get up close to the most iconic, [...]
London’s Art Deco lidos – bathe like a flapper
The term lido comes from Lido di Venezia, the sandy barrier beach that encloses the Lagoon of Venice where sea-bathing took place from the later nineteenth century. The golden age of lidos and outdoor swimming pools was in the Thirties, when swimming became very popular, and over 169 lidos were built across the UK. Sadly, [...]
Musical epicentre – a guide to 60s Soho
The Sixties saw an explosion of British music: Beatlemania swept the world, America was taken over by the British Invasion and London’s Soho was the centre of the international music scene. Oh how things have changed…Luckily many of the old Soho landmarks still remain, so if you are feeling nostalgic follow our guide to some of the [...]
