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Reasons We Love Brixton Market

It’s way off the tourist path. At the end of the Victoria tube line, you gotta work to get to Brixton Market. For us, it’s a 45 minute trek of walking and tube-ing and walking some more. The mystique does add to the...

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The Olympic Venues at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

As images arise from Athens and Sochi, massive stadiums going unused and crumbling, there is great debate about the necessity to spend billions upon billions building venues and infrastructure for hosting the Olympics....

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Overrated London Activities

Over the next few months, we will have visitors of several sorts, including cousins, aunts, uncles and friends. The emails have begun as we dole out advice about what to do, how to do it, and which London hotel is in...

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London Neighborhood Guide: Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is a funky, fun neighborhood in East London, not too far from Central London.  Conveniently located on the Central line of the Underground, sandwiched between Shoreditch, Dalston and Wapping, it is a mix...

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Gluten Free Spotlight: The Florist Arms

My journey into a world sans gluten has been relatively smooth, though there have been some bumps in the road.  As I chronicled in my last spotlight, sandwiches has been a major food group missing from my life.  My...

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Restaurant Review: Hibiscus, London

First, some bad news. Thanks to some mysterious import/transfer error, all of our pictures from this amazing meal were deleted off of the camera. We’re trying to take this news for what it is – an...