London’s paid attractions are, individually, very good at making you wince. The Tower of London is £34.80. Westminster Abbey is £31. St Paul’s is £26. You do the maths on a full day of sightseeing and you start seriously reconsidering how much you actually like history. This is where the London Pass comes in. A…
The first time you check the price of a meal in London, there’s a moment. A brief, slightly hollow moment where you reconsider your entire trip. Even people from expensive cities get it. New York visitors get it. Tokyo visitors get it. Everyone gets it. London’s food prices are in a category of their own,…
London’s transport network is one of the best in the world. It is also very good at quietly draining your account if you don’t know how it works. Here’s everything you need before you tap in for the first time. Forget the Oyster Card The first thing most guides will tell you is to get…
Someone, somewhere, looked at a collection of purpose-built shop units on the outskirts of Bicester and thought: what if we painted them pastel colours, hung some flower baskets up, and called it a village? Then they told Londoners it was a luxury outlet experience. Then the Londoners told each other. And now, every weekend, a…
Twenty-four pounds. That’s what English Heritage will charge you to walk around some rocks in a field. Big rocks, ancient rocks, genuinely mysterious rocks, but rocks nonetheless. Here’s the thing: you don’t have to pay it. The Secret Most Visitors Don’t Know About Right next to the paid visitor path sits a public byway called…
Somewhere between “genuinely interesting” and “what am I looking at” sits Woodhenge, a 4,500-year-old monument two miles north of Stonehenge that most visitors bolt onto their itinerary without really knowing what they’re in for. Spoiler: it’s a field with concrete stumps in it. That’s not me being harsh. That’s just what it is. What Woodhenge…