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Worldwide weird: Insect-infused cocktails

By Lindsey Galloway

At high-end bars in the United States and United Kingdom, bartenders are crafting cocktails with ingredients like crickets, tarantulas, scorpions and even giant ants. Read more…

Reawakening the Underground

By Matt Bolton

Urban spelunking in London’s abandoned subway stations could do for the city’s underbelly what the London Eye did for its skyline. Read more…

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Travelwise: Bike sharing around the world

By Suemedha Sood

Eight great cities for public bicycle programmes and how each works Read more…

London’s alternative museums

By Paul Bloomfield, Lonely Planet

The city has scores of intimate, specialist and plain eccentric museums, dedicated to personalities, pastimes, occupations and assorted oddities. Read more…

London's art attack

By Matt Bolton

The bleeding edge of British art is found in the backrooms and roofs of Peckham, the working class neighbourhood south of the Thames. Read more…

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