Sue Hillman had a successful career in a senior position at the BBC, and then redundancy paid her a visit. Instead of moping around, she set about creating ‘It’s Your London’, where she designs and organizes the  perfect trip for foreign visitors. Sue will take you to the famous sights like Big Ben and the…

I’d been vaguely interested in meditation for years, but recently I’ve become fascinated with transcendental meditation after I read Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris. He sent 11 questions to 140 people at the very top of their game—right across the spectrum from sportsmen, entrepreneurs, and scientists. His survey showed the vast majority of correspondents…

Conrad Gamble is a man after my own heart—like me, he has a passion for London and Londoners, so much so that he published his first book under the title “For the Love of London”. This book contains 100 stories told by 100 Londoners, many you’ll know, like Stephen Fry, but many you won’t. Each…

I was a little anxious when first meeting Rachel Wang—after all, she is the co founder of one of the most successful video production and social enterprise companies across London and the UK: Chocolate Films. Thankfully she didn’t criticize my equipment or technique, and she went out of her way to clear her desk and…

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a world wide exhibited fine art photographer with a body of work that encompasses 12 major projects over ten years. The foundation of her success was “Teenage Stories” an evocative narrative of the transition of a teenage girl to womanhood. She frequently falls back on her own recollection of her early years…

Inspired by the Outsider movement, Stephen Wright has turned his home in East Dulwich into the most surreal living experience imaginable. I can honestly say that I wasn’t prepared for the stunning visual cacophony of color, art, and mayhem. Stephen picks up everyday items others have discarded at flea markets and takes them home to…

Surrounded by books and machinery, art, the electric hum of machines that pump ink through needles into skin—I was a bit intimidated visiting Lal Hardy’s studio New Wave Tattoo. Lal has been tattooed by Yakuza in Japan, the jungle of Borneo, Tahiti and has just as many stories as he has tattoos of his own.…

Phil Ryan has been a passionate campaigner – from helping the homeless to be self-sufficient, to saving his beloved Denmark Street from the voracious appetite of London’s property owning developers. His astonishing musical career has sent Phil across the world over the last forty years—a highlight being when he fronted The Animals in Moscow’s Red…

Daughter of a Ugandan Foreign Service diplomat, Rose Sandy was raised across the world—from Baghdad to India, Germany, and Paris. She met her husband in Berlin and decided London was the place she wanted to raise her family. She’s a talented musician with a deep interest in technology and works at a leading London publishing…

Mudlark noun: someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value, a term used especially to describe those who scavenged this way in London during the late 18th and 19th centuries. When most Londoners are tucked into bed waiting for the sun to rise, a select group is scouring the banks of the Thames…