London
Home for now — the city I live in and still haven't got to the bottom of. The most multicultural city in Europe, with over 300 languages spoken across it: markets and galleries for every mood, a glass floor out over the Thames on Tower Bridge, food from everywhere within a bus ride, and a different neighbourhood to wander every weekend. Never the same city twice.
Top recommendations
3 picks
Where to eat
11 entriesSpecialty coffee
Specialty coffee · De Beauvoir
Brazilian-Italian, plant-based · Shoreditch
Soho pasta bar — walk-ins, late
Where to drink
5 entriesLive jazz on Wednesdays, free before 7:30, and a rooftop terrace with a view.
Mr Lyan cocktails · Shoreditch
Irish pub, trad music
Rooftop skybar · Aldgate
Natural wine bar · De Beauvoir
What to do
28 entriesVintage and trinkets down the street, and the best Bangladeshi food in London.
A Sunday flower and plant market in the east, cafés and shops all around it.
A Saturday street market in Hackney — local traders and proper food.
A food market and rooftop bar inside a converted church, just off Oxford Street.
The Royal Botanic Gardens — Victorian glasshouses, the treetop walkway, and the pagoda.
The largest of the royal parks, with wild deer and ancient oaks.
The UK's finest Impressionists, at Somerset House — Van Gogh's bandaged-ear self-portrait and Manet's Folies-Bergère.
The film-lover's cinema under Waterloo Bridge — classics and repertory seasons.
The rebuilt Globe on the South Bank, still staging plays — £5 standing tickets for weekend matinees.
Theatre in the open air, in the middle of Regent's Park.
The gallery
21 postcards
