1. Indulge in an Ice Cream Daydream. Like some kind of crazy-beautiful gelato Willy Wonka fantasy come true, the King’s Cross Ice Cream Festival really does take place at Granary Square all weekend. The best ice cream purveyors from around London will be showing off their chilly creations and the entire manufacturing process will be …
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Never been to one of London’s most life-affirming annual events? Former DJ deputy editor Tom Kihl is an old timer at doing it in style
As one of the only ticket-free events in the London 2012 schedule, the Men’s Triathlon in Hyde Park yesterday was a chance to get fully involved in the crowd experience without the forward planning, dogged persistence and pot luck required for attending a paid event. Brownlee, Brownlee, Brownlee! The steady chant reaches a crescendo as …
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With Olympic ticketing almost as central to the national dialogue as the weather this summer, we thought it only right for the Kentishtowner to pay a much overdue visit – and spread the word about our humble tome to the swathes of high-spirited attendees. In an evening strangely reminiscent of our bizarre sojourn at London …
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How’s your Olympics so far? Surely even the most sceptical of naysayers must have been swept up by the spirit of the Games by now? The startling national medal success! The raw emotion of the athletes (such endless tears)! The Queen and 007! The lack of traffic on the roads! It’s been a whirlwind few …
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Sick to the hind teeth of watching lithe athletes showing off in the skimpiest of outerwear? Yup, us too. So we hobbled our way down to Angel with raging post-Opening Ceremony hangovers to catch Czech artist David Cerny’s life-size Routemaster bus doing press-ups. And it was enough to put a smile even on Mrs Kentishtowner’s …
It was the surrealness of it all that struck us most. As we strolled with hundreds of others across the sun-lit streets of NW1, people smiling and drinking coffee, or eating ice cream, the vibe was a lazy Sunday afternoon – yet it was 6:30am. Like thousands of others, we had hauled ourselves out of …
