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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Camden Crawled

April 20, 2007 at 3:50 PM | 0 Comments


We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Live Music
A London Indie 101.

Today I bid thee farewell with a heavy head. I'm not being metaphorical here; my head feels like the first day on the Somme. Yesterday was the beginning of the Camden Crawl; a yearly two-day indie-a-thon that takes place in a collection of venues around Camden, which I undertook with vigour.

Now I realise this is a dramatically early heads up for next year's crawl, but more, much more than that, one should use it for educational purposes. The Crawl is pretty much a snapshot London Indie 101 on bands and venues.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: East End Football Photo Tour

April 19, 2007 at 12:06 PM | 2 Comments


We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Football
Pie, mash, and jellied eels along the way.

For our penultimate jaunt round London, I'm taking you all to the footy. My relationship with the beautiful game, or soccer as the yanks would have it, borders on obsession. But there is method to my madness. Football is, and always has been a cultural vehicle, offering real, local experiences beyond the scope of any usual tourist experiences. In fact, I try to catch a game every time I travel.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Sex Exhibit Craze Sweeps London

April 18, 2007 at 11:24 AM | 0 Comments


We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Sex
We're fiends we are, honest.

"British" and "sex" in the same headline? Surely not?! Well actually the arty farty crowd in London have come over all kinky recently, and even our highbrowed broadsheets are having a peek. Classy newspapers talking about naughty stuff is always a giggle, and this piece in yesterday's Guardian on Amora- London's first permanent sex exhibition- is vintage. An extract:

A wall of sex toys - oddly including a range of silicone breast implants - is accompanied by videos of models demonstrating their use. A model of a man bent over invites you to spank him with a paddle, with lights showing whether you've gone too far, like a fairground test-your-strength machine. A plaster cast of a man and a women invite you to feel inside for their G spot or prostate. "That's it," they say encouragingly when you hit the right spot.

Some great photos of Amora are available here.

Marvelous. And not an isolated incident either. The Barbican, long-time darling of British arts, recently announced that the follow-up to its upcoming celebration of art in the punk years would be a four-month exhibition on...you guessed it...sex! Check out this Times Article on Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to now. The Barbican doing punk swiftly followed by sex?! Tis a good time indeed to be a Londoner.

Related Stories:
· Amora London [Official Site]
· The DLR Is a Bit Like Sex [Jaunted]

Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: The DLR Is a Bit Like Sex

April 17, 2007 at 3:10 PM | 1 Comment

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Public Transportation
The hottest transport in London.

Last week I pissed all my friends off by asking for their tuppence on the best London Underground lines. The Northern, Victoria and Jubilee were the punters' choices. This was all very democratic and suchlike, yet now that we're alone I should probably make amends for a rather heinous omission on their part. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is, in fact, the goddam hottest line of them all.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Saarf London Rocks

April 16, 2007 at 2:30 PM | 0 Comments


Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: South London
Spare a thought for south of the river.

South London has a bit of an image problem. Which is half fair, half not. Granted, there are a higher concentration of shitholes south of the river, but there are also a few pockets of cool which do cool, well, just a bit better than north London. Probably something to do with being a bit more real. God, did I just say that?

Anyway, here's the beef on two of south London's brighter lights. Post-modern indie kids, salt of the earth pound-a-pinters, pierced rebels, champagne socialists and a pinch of peaked-cap ghetto chic make Greenwich and New Cross south-east London's answer to Camden and Shoreditch.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: My Back Yard

April 13, 2007 at 1:30 PM | 1 Comment


Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Stroud Green
Home sweet home.

I'll let you into a little secret. Nobody really "knows" London. Essentially, it's a sprawling mêlée of corners- you can get to know a couple, but there's always a few nooks on the other side of the room you're yet to explore. So then, perhaps the best a Londoner can hope for is to get their head round where they live.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: The Tate Turbine Hall

April 12, 2007 at 3:20 PM | 0 Comments


Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Art
Sound, sun, polythene and slides at London's biggest modern art venue.

When it comes to modern art, I'm something of an interested philistine: I like quite a lot of it, but I don't know why. The modern art mecca of London is undoubtedly the Tate Modern on the South Bank, and their current centrepiece has to take the cake for I'm-entertained-and-if-that's-art-I'm-in funny business.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: The Banksy Link Survival Pack

April 11, 2007 at 4:00 PM | 1 Comment


Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Art
The essential online Banksy goody bag.

I started writing a post on Banksy, Britain's premier `guerrilla' artist, but it all got a bit complicated. Thing is, Banksy has become public property over the last few years. An institution, even. Instead, for my own purposes I decided to make myself a Banksy Link Survival Pack (©BL 2007). What? You want in? Ok, but don't tell anyone, it's all very underground you see.

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: If You Can't Beat Brick Lane, Join It

April 10, 2007 at 1:05 PM | 2 Comments

Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

London :: Nightlife
London's hippest hotspot, or a hive of wankers? You decide.

Brick Lane; London's Janus-faced temptress. Either the coolest place in London, or the spiritual home of the city's boundless legions of Nathan Barleys. Or maybe both.

Quick backstory. Brick Lane has followed the age-old hipster gentrification process: poor working class area, low rents, immigrants move in (Bangladeshis in this case), so do the gifted-but-broke arterati, gets cool. Also see: Kreuzberg in Berlin, Lavapiés in Madrid, Norrebro in Copenhagen. The result is a heady concoction of trendies, curries, electronica, punks, tramps, yadda, yadda. Get it?

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Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: The Great Tube Debate

April 9, 2007 at 4:34 PM | 0 Comments

Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: London 2007

We are constantly searching for the most timely and useful travel information on locations around the world. We have always found that boots on the ground is a great way to sift through the marketing clutter and bring you the travel tips, information, and opinions you crave. However, now it is time to kick it up a notch. First, we are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.

We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences, and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from embeds. The rub is, at the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.

Our first embed is Benji Lanyado of London, UK. He is a budget travel columnist for the Guardian Newspaper in the UK. He also is the fearless leader of Youngin Europe, so expect his guide to skew young, but not that young, we intend to keep this thing legal. He lives in London and enjoys ranting about football.

Now that you have all the particulars, sit back and enjoy the trip.

The Great Tube Debate
Hot off the press, kind of. London's Top 3 Tube Lines.

Probably the one (maybe only) thing that unites Londoners is our beloved transport system- the tube. Like a slightly regrettable one-night stand; we've all done it, it feels a bit dirty, and when you're drunk it seems like the best thing ever.

Last week I took the decided to annoy all of my friends by spamming them with a simple question. "What's the best tube line, and why?" The results are in, and here's the top three.

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