Writer and literary blogger, Gemma Seltzer, talks about her urban walking project Look up at the Sky, exploring the quiet, peaceful bits of London.

Mark Mason decided to walk the whole London Tube system overground (along the nearest streets, obviously, rather than the tracks themselves). He always loved walking the city’s streets, and hit upon the idea of a project that would allow him to say he’d truly ‘captured’ London. The resulting book, Walk the Lines, will be published in July. Here, Mark gives us an insight into the making of this intriguing book, and reveals how Stanfords played a part, too…

Crashing waves and chirping birds were the only sounds as I sat, palms pressed together, legs crossed, awaiting my yoga lesson. Ecuador is not a place usually associated with yoga, it’s more for the mountain-trekking, Spanish-learning crowd, but a new yoga retreat named Otra Ola hopes to change that.

Huancayo is famous for its impressive Sunday markets, but it seemed the entrepreneurial spirit was strong in this Andean town; everywhere was a money-making opportunity including the 5am train ticket queue…