Everyone knows someone that at this exact moment is flying out to summer destinations around the world, but the greatest thing in London is that you can find summer everywhere… in London!
Rooftops
There is nothing better than balancing your frozen cocktail on a climbing rope overlooking the concrete jungle in the City. When days get longer means that the magic hour lasts longer and you can find yourself after work partying or just chilling in one of the city’s infamous rooftops. From the corporate Coq d’Argent to the casually hipster Netil 360 and from the west End’s Pergola to the far south Frank’s Campari bar, every little open air space on a building’s roof hosts a small little summer party.
Netil 360 rooftop
Parks and Gardens
You don’t have to wait for the weekend and pray for the sun to come out early in order to lie your beach towel on the grass and get indulged in vitamin D. Usual lunch setting for the summer months even on a weekday, parks and gardens are everywhere in the City and you can find a spot to have your own space under the sun. Bringing your own pic-nic basket or getting alfresco deals from the pop-up cafes in the park, you’re gonna live your own myth on the green.
Deck chairs at Regent’s Park
Festivals
Name a band or an artist that is not visiting London in summer and you’re gonna fail big time. Summer festivals in the UK are the biggest thing ever and it is for a reason. Either in any of the central parks or somewhere on a train ride from the city, it is not summer if you haven’t spent a day, a whole day or even two or three or four (for the Glasto fans), under the sun (ok, maybe the rain), in the sand (ok, maybe the mud) trying to work out your own bespoke line-up mix-matching the several acts on offer.
Hot denim pants, ankle boots, big hats, sunnies on and there you go!
One of the stages at the Glastonbury Festival
Open air Cinemas
Undoubtedly, London has been the setting for many movies in the history of cinema. Warm summer nights in London though can also offer the magical atmosphere for screenings, with amazing settings as Londoners can create.
Deckchairs and bean bags, inflated rings or on rooftops, the settings are inventive. Escaping the work life after 6pm and travel to summer destinations via screenings of all time classics or the latest blockbusters.
Wimbledon
Ask a Londoner to define summer and he wouldn’t miss out tennis; or strawberries with cream; or prosecco.
All three make Wimbledon and this is the absolute London summer event. On the final’s weekend, you can find tennis themed parties in every single corner of the City and strawberries and proseccos sell out well before the day. If you can’t make it to the Centre Court, try the Bluebird, where they know how to rock Wimbledon!