While I haven't read it, I can say that at first glance, it looks really interesting, and beautifully laid out. Spectacular sights of the Cape Peninsula’s are in sight with great sites like Camps Bay, Chapmans Peak, Cape Point, Boulders Beach, Muizenberg and so much more.

We had a wonderful time with our guide (Dragan) and were able to get a good sense of the local culture and vibe around the city. What’s particularly edifying is there is no attempt to thin out or dumb down – it’s a total mind dump, with the editors throwing every possible piece of information they can have at the pages and then worrying how to make them stick later. Phyllis Pearsall, the progenitor of the London street atlas, is cited as inspiration, alongside the lexicographer and coiner of that most tiresome observation about tiredness of the capital, Dr Samuel Johnson. If your child has shown symptoms of any infectious disease, including vomiting and diarrhoea, the Health Standards state that a child cannot attend nursery for 48 hours after the symptoms have subsided. It was a wizard wheeze, and I even contributed to later editions but Curiocity the magazine only got as far as G, when they stopped.For all other inspections (childminders, nannies and childcare on non-domestic premises and childcare on domestic premises that does not operate regularly), we give no more than five days’ notice. The esoteric nature is hard to grasp and harder to describe but for example G is for Grids, a chapter that takes in everything from bollards to bikes – and the bike page includes entries on velodromes, cyclist cafes, Queen videos, mass transit cycling events, recumbent hire and the serial number of the most ridden Boris bike. From premium deluxe rooms and family apartments to shared backpacker and hostel suites, a pool, outdoor lounge and onsite café-restaurant, we’ve got all the details covered so you can focus on connecting with your fellow travellers and discovering the Mother City. If that unlikely event should ever happen, the new city state could perhaps look to Curiocity for its little red book.

Its 26 chapters weave together facts, myths, stories, riddles, essays, diagrams, illustrations and itineraries to explore every aspect of life in the capital. Or they can be brought to the nursery and left in the child’s bag for when they need them (At sleep time). CurioCity Childcare located opposite Caledonia Road Underground Station and just 9 min walk from Caledonian Road and Barnsbury Train Station.

This might be confusing to start with, especially if your child is accustomed to spending much of their time with you. This helps children to understand their immediate environments and help build resilience in children.

He is the author of Into the Night: A Year with the Police (Picador, 2023), The Character Conundrum: How to develop confidence, independence and resilience in the classroom (Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Henry Eliot, of Curiocity: An Alternative A to Z of London (Particular Books, 2016). We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. They’re part guidebook, part conversation starter, part cultural educator, part journal and part sketchbook. The pleasurably apocryphal can sometimes get crushed by qualifiers, and the fascinating lost amid dull exposition.

Sometimes it may take sometime for a place to become available because we also need to ensure there is space for your child when the time comes for them to move up to the next room. If it wasn’t for the publication of Up In Smoke, it would probably be the best London book of the year. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.