The pagoda in the southeast section of Kew Gardens in southwest London stands 50 metres tall and it takes 253 steps to climb it from bottom to top. (T...

The area around King’s Cross station in north central London is a perpetual hive of activity. For example, the new Google HQ is under constructi...

Dale Chihuly is styled as the “world’s most celebrated glass artist”. I have no idea how stiff the competition is for that accolade ...

This is old news but quite an extraordinary story anyway. Last November, this painting – Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) – s...

It’s not an especially topical subject at the moment, what with the Edinburgh Festival being long gone for another year, but over the past year ...

This is a little story about The Holme, an opulent premises in a sensational location on the Inner Circle of Regent’s Park, London NW1. This ho...

Sir David Attenborough has described the Temperate House at Kew Gardens as “a breathtakingly beautiful space”. Who am I to argue with that...

When I was involved in magazine publishing, there were certain words on a magazine cover that it was generally accepted would make your product more...

Is cave exploring really fun? Many people do like it, indeed love it, and in some respects I should, but all considered I prefer my underground experi...