Now. Here. This. - Time Out London » rickshaw http://now-here-this.timeout.com The ultimate guide to what’s on in London right now. This is the place to find the latest information on London events, shows, and exhibitions. Plus the best places in London to places to eat, drink, dance and more. Stay up to date with what’s on in London with Now.Here.This. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:03:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Now. Here. This. - Time Out London http://blog.anika.d//wp-content/plugins/to-feedme/images/now-here-this.png http://now-here-this.timeout.com 75 75 The ultimate guide to what’s on in London right now. This is the place to find the latest information on London events, shows, and exhibitions. Plus the best places in London to places to eat, drink, dance and more. Stay up to date with what’s on in London with Now.Here.This. Hitch a ride at the Southbank Centre as Iconic Rickshaws hit the town http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/04/14/hitch-a-ride-at-the-southbank-centre-as-iconic-rickshaws-hit-the-town/ http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/04/14/hitch-a-ride-at-the-southbank-centre-as-iconic-rickshaws-hit-the-town/#comments Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:15:32 +0000 Blogger http://now-here-this.timeout.com/?p=88680

These aren’t the techno-blaring, LED-lit rickshaws you encounter while weaving around buses on Oxford Street. These are Iconic Rickshaws for Relief that have been designed by Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas, artist Zoobs and luxury designer Bareeze to name but a few. The fleet, presented by the Qismat Trust, have just returned to London after a world wide trip where they have been raising awareness for the adversities faced by disadvantaged communities in developing countries and will be on display at the Southbank Centre’s Outside spaces until April 21. Jude Brosnan

For more info, see southbankcentre.co.uk.

]]> http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/04/14/hitch-a-ride-at-the-southbank-centre-as-iconic-rickshaws-hit-the-town/feed/ 0 ‘Londoners’ quote of the day: Dan Simon, the rickshaw rider http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2011/12/19/londoners-quote-of-the-day-dan-simon-the-rickshaw-rider/ http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2011/12/19/londoners-quote-of-the-day-dan-simon-the-rickshaw-rider/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:30:21 +0000 Sonya Barber http://now-here-this.timeout.com/?p=43981 ‘The days and nights of London now, as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it’. Craig Taylor has collected the voices of the city in his lovely new book ‘Londoners’. It is time to meet some other people who call this city home.

Dan Simon, rickshaw driver:

‘Great big hordes of men really late in Soho want a brothel or a strip club, they rarely want anything else. And then you get people that just want to eat out, they want a restaurant, a late-opening bar, they want a place they can buy cigarettes, they want a place you can buy cocaine. And then there’s people always desperate to get something off their chest, confess their sexual deviancies to you. Rickshaw-riding brought me into contact with a great deal of people, people that you would never normally meet. It gave me an insight into London which I think few people ever get. It was a very romantic time in my life. My relationship with the city was quite intimate. They were definitely my best years in London.’

From ‘Londoners’  by Craig Taylor (published by Granta, £25).

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