Blogged for self-reference, really. Covers everything from proper sit-down restaurants to burrito vans.
The girlfriend wants one. Sigh.
Suffice it to say that the ‘Whitney Houston’ at Cino’s on Leather Lane is an absolutely fantastic sandwich. Serious munch.
And I’ve no idea why the menu is stuck in the early 90s, with the other specials being:
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Prince Naseem
Madonna
And a couple of others which I can’t remember.
Blackfriars Station is going to be absolutely immense once it’s finished (in 2012). Am I alone in thinking that a station stretched across the river looks bloody brilliant?
(Image via Londonist)
One weekend: all 11 films. If only I were in London that weekend. KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
24 hours of the London Cycle Hire Scheme
(by James Cheshire on Vimeo)
Using Oliver O’Brien’s London cycle hire status map, this is a really cool visualisation of the whereabouts of the new Boris Bikes over the course of a weekday.
Red means a full docking station, whilst blue means empty.
You can see how the clusters round mainline train stations rapidly empty between 7 and 9am, with central London filling up. The opposite happens around 5pm, and in the evenings it looks nigh-on impossible to find a bike in the very heart of the West End.
In theory, TfL should be able to use this kind of data-analysis to ensure that bikes are always available in places of high demand. I’ve already seen vans towing cages full of bikes, redistributing them to where they are needed, and hopefully they’ll be able to figure out a pro-active method of doing so, rather than reacting.
I really should go sign up for this bike hire scheme, shouldn’t I?
Sometimes you just can’t help taking photos of it all…
My cousin is staying at my flat next week whilst doing some work experience in the girlfriend’s newsroom, and we’ve been racking our brains trying to think of things to do with her. She’s not from London, and I doubt that she’s spent much time here at all before. Thankfully she’s over 18, so there’s always the fall-back of bars and restaurants, but it’d be good to do something else as well.
So far, all we have booked in is the London Zoo late evening on Friday 13th, which I’m really looking forward to. The similar evening at the Science Museum was fantastic, and I haven’t been to London Zoo for years. Throw in some booze, and I’m set. Anyone else fancy it?
Forget 24, Lost and the Bourne trilogy…this is some serious edge-of-the-seat drama. I tuned in for 30 seconds and witnessed 4 separate near death incidents involving taxi’s and spanish tourists. Gripping stuff, and to be honest I’m not sure who’s side i’m on. (Found here) Highly addictive. Bloody tourists! It’s amusing how each group crosses and does the moves as if they were the very first people to think of re-enacting the album cover.
Reblogged from: justonemorething
Originally posted on: Just...one more thing...
“Boris Bikes” lined up and ready to go on their first day. There were quite a few people cycling past as I was out and about at lunchtime, which is a good sign.
I’ve not yet used one, as I forgot to register a couple of weeks ago. They’re only for pre-registered people during the first month, but after that you’ll quite literally be able to just rock up and take one.
They’re free for half an hour, but you’re able to drop your bike off at a docking station after 29 minutes and immediately take out another without incurring any fees. And seeing as they’re designed for brief journeys across central London, it’s unlikely that you’ll be doing any epic journeys anyway.
What needs to happen, though, is integration with existing Oyster travel cards. When you register, you get sent some kind of key to unlock the docking stations. That’s something else to carry with you every day, whereas my Oyster card is in my wallet 24/7, and I’m never without it.
One day, we’ll be able to just swipe the Oyster card and have a fee deducted from your balance, which gets restored when you re-dock the bike somewhere else. That’s what I’d be aiming for, if I were in the planning department of TfL, anyway.
