Author: Fiona MacLeod
The Specific Times Of Year When London Is Substantially Better, And The Specific Times When It Is Substantially Worse
The standard advice is to come in summer. The standard advice is wrong, or at least incomplete….
The London Walking Routes That Locals Actually Take, And Why Tourists Almost Never Find Them
The standard tourist walking routes are not what locals walk. Here are five specific routes that produce…
The Tube Maps That Are Actually Useful For Tourists, And The Tube Maps That Will Mislead You
The famous Beck Tube map is iconic, beautiful, and substantially misleading about distances. Here is what to…
Why You Should Probably Skip The Crown Jewels And Do This Instead
The Tower of London is genuinely worth visiting. The Crown Jewels exhibit specifically, after eighteen years of…
The Specific London Restaurants Where Booking Three Months Ahead Is Genuinely Necessary, And The Specific Ones Where It Is Not
The standard advice is to book early for everything. The standard advice is wrong. Here is the…
Brentford: The West London Town That Has a New Stadium, an Old Canal, and a Serious Musical Instrument Museum
A Guide to TW8’s Riverside Regeneration, Its Community Football Club, and Its Extraordinary Collection of Historic Instruments…
Highgate: The Village at the Top of the Hill Where London Buries Its Famous and Charges for the View
A Guide to North London’s Most Atmospheric and Historically Saturated Village Highgate: Elevated in Every Sense Highgate…
Richmond: Where London Gives Up Pretending to Be a City and Becomes Countryside Instead
A Guide to TW9’s Royal Park, Its River, Its Deer, and Its Deeply Pleasant Problem of Being…
Plaistow: East London’s Working Suburb and Its Quietly Significant Community Life
A Guide to the District That Gets On With Things Without Requiring Your Attention to Do So…
Fiona MacLeod’s London Travel Guide: Five Things That Will Confuse You
Essential insight for visitors arriving during Britain’s confident Zoom diplomacy era Bohiney | The London Prat By…









