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• Solving the little problems | Umbrellas vs Hoodies

  

  SURVIVING LONDON | Umbrella or Hoodie? It’s the age old question that’s been haunting Londoners since the Sloppy Joe sprouted a hood. So, which you do reach for when you see storm clouds brewing?

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• Shorts in spring – are you brave enough to go bare?

  

  SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | In a misguided attempt to embrace the sentiment of spring, our sleuth discovers why bare legs in May are still a London fashion faux pas.

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• Keeping your head above ground

  

  SURVIVING LONDON | Author of An Aussie’s Survival Guide to London, Bianca Soldani, offers us all her tips and tricks for Australian newcomers to London in an exclusive new column. First problem to solve: London transport.

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• Embracing the bug – the travel bug

  

  HONEYMOONING NOMAD | “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list”

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• Double-back to Brick Lane

  

  SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Brick Lane – tourist trap or vibrant urban heartland of Bangladeshi cuisine and culture? Our sleuth investigates.

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• North London Tough Mudder: The muddiest mudder of all

  

  AUSSIE TIMES TOUGH MUDDER ATTEMPT | In a sheer moment of insanity five months ago I signed up for the North London Tough Mudder race. On the weekend of 4-5 May at Boughton House in Kettering, the day of reckoning finally arrived.

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• Beltane Fire Festival

  

  EDINBURGH EXPAT | If there is one thing we do too little of in contemporary daily life, it is convulsing our naked, crudely painted bodies around a giant burning sculpture to the sound of aggressively beaten drums.

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• Houseshare highlights – living in London

  

  SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | When you live in a house packed with a motley crew, you’re bound to end up with one oddball in the mix.

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• The great Aussie bake-off

  

  HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Impressing UK colleagues with a taste of home on Office Bake Day proves a little more difficult than anticipated for our honeymooning nomad.

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• I’ll have a beer, my friend will pay

  

  HONEYMOONING NOMAD | In a country where most people speak three or four languages, it’s sometimes difficult knowing only two – English and Australian.

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• NEW COLUMN | Ask Alley about …. extreme touristing

  

  ASK ALLEY | We all love Big Ben and the Tower of London but after a while it loses its interest, and going to the same old pubs with your mates on weekends gets a bit dull. Our new columnist shows us four ways to impress your visiting friends with something a little off the beaten tourist track.

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• Salvation, thy name is kebab

  

  SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Despite waking up the next morning questioning why I would put myself through the torment of eating something that was shaved off a greasy slab of meat at 2am, I would always go back.

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• Millwall mugs

  

  SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Despite the disturbing football hooliganism of a few, our sleuth discovers a club still deserving of support in Millwall.

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• Layer up: learning to love long johns

  

  EDINBURGH EXPAT | Learning to love … layers. The art of staying warm in unseasonably cold weather is one every Australian must learn when moving to the UK.

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• The London tan

  

  HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Surviving the London winter is much easier when you’re the one Australian who doesn’t tan.

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• London loving | Playing the dating game

  

  Dating in London as an Australian can be as terrifying as moving to… say, Greece, without speaking the language. Bestselling author and ex-Aussie expat in London Lana Penrose shares her London dating experiences; from vampire, to crack addict to being rejected by Russell Brand.

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• Aussie’s random act of kindness on the Tube sparks London search

  

  An Australian woman in London performed a random act of kindness this week when she helped a nine year old boy reunite with his family after becoming separated on the Tube. Now his family hope to find the young woman who helped Samuel on the Central line on Thursday 11 April to give her their thanks. Help us in our search!

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• Negotiating the room to rent minefield in London

  

  HONEYMOONING NOMAD | Finding the right room to rent in London can be an exhausting process, as both parties try to negotiate the ‘get-to-know’ you minefield of matching the housemate to the house.

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• Charity begins at the Tube

  

  SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | The people from groups like Red Cross and Oxfam, as worthy as their causes may be, knew how to play me like a fiddle: hire a pretty girl with a big smile to call out to me in a shopping centre, then stick a pen in my hand and let hormones do the rest.

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• Embracing the elements at Edinburgh International Science Festival

  

  EDINBURGH EXPAT | The Edinburgh International Science Festival looks to the future as it celebrates its 25th birthday.

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