It's our weekly London
roundup starting with a few headlines that caught the eye in London this week,
click the links for the full stories…
THEATRE: Cindi Lauper Musical Heads to London – Noise11
FOOTBALL: Spurs Star Harry Kane For England Call Up? – Evening Standard
PROPERTY: A Tube Map Of Rich & Poor London – Daily Mail
MUSEUMS: Is Dippy Going "On Tour" To Newcastle? – Newcastle Evening Chronicle
POLITICS: A U.S View of Our Forthcoming General Election – New York Times
ARTS: Is The London Theatre Critic Becoming An Endangered Species? – the Stage
CYCLING: Biking Underground? psfk.com
ARCHITECTURE: The Story of the London Eye – The Guardian
MUSEUMS: Sherlock at the Museum of London – New York Times
PROTEST: Squatters Evicted From 12 Bar Club - Evening Standard
Best Feet Forward –
Walking & Shoe Stories This Week
This was our favourite walking story of the
week, a mother and daughter odyssey…
June 2009. The start
of a three-month holiday and Katharine Norbury and her nine-year-old daughter,
Evie, were making plans. Schools in Barcelona, where the family were living,
had broken up. Katharine’s husband was still there working; she and Evie were
back in Britain, the long summer days stretching before them.
Katharine had
miscarried in the spring and wanted a project to stave off her terrible fear of
“everything standing still”, as well as to entertain her daughter. A book,
recently re-read, had struck a chord. The Scottish writer Neil Gunn’s 1951
novel, The Well at the World’s End, describes the search for “a well whose
water is so clear it is invisible”. As Katharine and Evie discussed the
terminology of rivers, sources and wells, an idea formed.
“The theme for the
summer is following watercourses from the sea to the source,” wrote Evie in her
journal, transcribing her mother’s words.
Read the full story in
the Guardian HERE.
If You Do One OTHER Thing In London This Week…
Our weekly slot in which we point you in the direction of
other happenings and events in our great city. A new exhibition, a gig, a
museum, a pop-up-shop – the best of London within a few minutes of a London Walks walking tour.
We've been
out-and-about podcasting in London museums this week and on Thursday we were
given a very warm welcome at Twinings Tea on the Strand.
The Museum at Twinings
is no more than a few metres square and is situated at the back of their famous
shop. Yana was our host and she educated us in the ways and the history of tea.
Here's a little snippet from their website which sums up the feel of
the place perfectly…
"We also have a
new Loose Tea Bar, which has created a lot of interest - with our sampling
dishes, you can pick up the tea, smell it, taste it, throw it on the floor if
you like! And although dry tea is great, wet tea is better - so we've just put
in a new Sampling Counter, where you can ask us for a try of a little
something! "
It was a perishing
cold winter day and the welcome at Twining was outstanding. Who says British
service is the world's worst?!
So our advice this
week is simple: If you do one other thing in London this week… 'ave a cuppa
tea!
R. Twinings and Co
Limited & The Twinings Museum
216 Strand
London WC2R 1A
Normal Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday 9.30-19.30
Saturday 10.00-17.00
Sunday 10.30-16.30
Seen In London This
Week…
There was a lovely
"backstage" feeling in Chinatown this week as Soho prepares for
Chinese New Year. Here are the lanterns being unpacked…
The Chinese New Year
celebrations take place in and around Soho next Sunday – you can round off the
day with the Soho Pub Walk, meeting at Leicester Square tube at 7pm.
Heard In London…
Our London Walks Podcast on London Musuems went live last week…
…and we're currently compiling part two with visits to The Grant, The Petrie, The Cartoon and The British museums!
If you'd like to recommend your fave London museum, then drop us a line or leave a comment below.
Have a great week!
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