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Andreas Grimm

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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This section covers a year spent living and studying in Sunderland, right as the town became a city, a tour of London’s sights and food, and Dundee on the Firth of Tay in Scotland. Pictured above is Tower Bridge in London, one of the country’s best-known landmarks.

2026

London - where to stay and where to eat

·1454 words·7 mins
London is the city most people mean when they say they have been to the UK. This is where I stay, where I eat and drink, and a few practical notes for getting around.

London - where to go

·357 words·2 mins
The London sights worth making time for, even on a work trip: Westminster, St Paul’s and the Millennium Bridge, and the British Museum.

Dundee - jute, jam, journalism, and a new waterfront

·1070 words·6 mins
Scotland’s fourth city sits on the north bank of the Firth of Tay and has reinvented itself more than once - from whaling and jute to comics, video games, and a waterfront anchored by the V&A. A short guide to what is worth seeing, eating, and how to get there.

Sunderland - the year it became a city

·1271 words·6 mins
I spent a year studying in Sunderland, back when it was a poor community with high youth unemployment, Roker Park still stood, and Sunderland Polytechnic had not yet become a university. I happened to be there for both of those changes.