London is packed with pubs, but finding a really good one is not always easy. Whether you want to relax in a garden or shelter from rain, marvel at architecture or enjoy a live act, find a convenient meeting point or a place to hide, bring your dog to the pub or stroke the resident cat, it is Herb L[...]

After 2000 years of human habitation, it is quite remarkable how much green space remains in this city. This guide charts places all but untouched by human hand: ancient woodland and meadows, marshes and rivers. It also locates those heartening spots where man has lost the battle with nature and wil[...]

The appeal of the 30 pubs within is specific: a happy cat, a river view, for architectural beauty or unchanging atmosphere. We have included pubs where mobile phones are barred and where children are not welcome; where food is recommended and where Guiness is brought to your table. There are old pub[...]

This guide is a gentle introduction to London on two wheels through four routes planned by our friends at tokyobike. It is intended for the amateur cyclist or even the hardened commuter in search of a tranquil alternative. The recommended routes take in interesting shops and sights while avoiding th[...]

No one guide can hope to encompass Chicago's manifold delights. With these 44 entries, we explore aspects of a city we love: dimly-lit bars, Puerto Rican sandwiches, hot dogs with duck fat fries, Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, Chess Records and the 1893 World's Fair's earthly remains. It is merely[...]

"The publishing world's great beasts have long roamed this small island, dispensing bon mots and acerbic one-liners, cluttering the bars and occasionally running afoul of the law. Our cast of characters includes some of Big Apple's most gifted word-slingers - Dorothy Parker, Damon Runyon, Norman Mai[...]

In this map we select 32 things to do in the city of light, none of which involve sharing a bottle of wine, eating bread and cheese on the banks of the Seine, or wandering arm in arm with your loved one. In fact, loved ones do not figure at all, this is a guide for the solo traveler and our suggesti[...]

Exploring is all well and good, but sometimes we need to take it easy. With this map we stroll the narrow streets of Barcelona, stopping for an invigorating glass of cava and to pick up pinxtos when we get peckish. We take in the extraordinary Museu Frederic Mares, a couple of markets and the beach.[...]

Berlin is a city where the oddball can thrive, yet it retains distinctive and appealing German characteristics: for all its bohemian spirit, it is orderly, efficient, cultured. In this guide you can find beautiful parks, wonderful bread, elegant stationery, intoxicating drinks and excellent coffee, [...]

There are 36 entries in the guide to the Swedish capital, incorporating our usual range of interests: good food and coffee, cultural pursuits and shops. There's Biologika Museet, a 19th-century natural history museum of staggering strangeness, rainwear from Stutterheim, salty caramel from Parlans Ko[...]

Few writers are as inextricably linked with a city as Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles. The neon-lit streets, mobbed-up joints and seedy rooming houses portrayed in his fiction were real places, familiar to Angelenos of the time, and in some cases recognisable today. This is a guide to the world of [...]