Easy. Have a smartphone and a data plan. Your life is saved. Is it? True… and false. 1. Get Citymapper Luckily, London has one of the most accurate GPS tracker. So your connected smartphone can know exactly where you are. Postal codes in London also work very well. No need to remember all the lengthy…
Category: London
Bar Italia — A Soho Corner with Mojo
“This coffee shop is very small but what goes on in there is as big as the world.” — Dave Stewart For twelve years now, since I became a fan of Pulp’s Different Class, I have told myself to get here one day. And I made it today. What is this cafe like to get written grittily…
#SyriaVote, Social Media, and My Friend
Last night the House finally passed the Syria airstrike proposal by Prime Minister David Cameron and the Tory after a lengthy debate against the opposite side represented by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. On Facebook hashtags #SyriaVote or #DontBombSyria have become the most viral. Many of my friends have joined the protest against bombing Syria along with numerous people either…
Matilda The Musical
There ain’t many things you can do in London if you live on a low budget. Like me. Before making the life-changing and expensive decision to study in London, I had created a detailed list of expenses for a month, which included such necessities as rent, bills, meals, travel, AND West End Theatre. By nature…
Observations on A Bus
People travelling by bus share the Commuter Culture that I wrote the other day, but there are also things on a bus you can see differently from an underground journey. One explanation that could be behind all: that a bus moves way more slowly than a train, so people mostly take it to travel a…
The Commuter Culture
More than three million people travel by public transport everyday in London. Interestingly so many commuters of so many backgrounds have established quite a culture that is distinctive and imposing to a Vietnamese newcomer like me. 1. Long Strides, and No Heels Londoners walk in fast pace and long strides most of the time. No…
Garden Lodge
On this day 24 years ago, a legend passed away in this house. He was known to the world as Freddie Mercury, and also one of the best rockband frontstars of all time. Living in London to me is more than just reaping the benefits and opportunities of a best known, civilised, and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious city in…
What Can An Underground Station Tell You?
Thanks to the ugly imperfections of the London Tube, there are quite a lot of distinctive details of a certain underground station that can sculpt your impression like no other. 1. Architecture and Decorations London Underground Stations have a wide variety of architectures and constructions, which can give you an image of the stations’ ages…
Ugly Imperfections of the London Tube
There has been no metro in Vietnam, but I already had the chance to travel by MRT in Singapore for a few weeks. With that in mind, I came to London to find myself rather disappointed. 1. No doors to protect passengers from the open platform or from the coming train. People always feel like…
Kaleidoscope Eyed 