Quirky Guide

Surfers take note. The UK’s first Flow Rider – artificial inland surf wave – opens in April 2010.

Need an outlet for your Easter sugar rush? Then join in this peculiar annual melee of bottle kicking in Leicestershire.

A hippy vibe predominates in this colourful courtyard of shops and cafes, tucked away between Monmouth and Neal St in Covent Garden.

Eat crocodile, snake or chocolate-covered scorpion amid mounds of cushions and Buddha-themed décor.

Dress up as a straw bear and dance for the locals, who might give you some food or drink out of sympathy.

Fitting one camel through the eye of a needle sounds hard enough as it is. But what if one could manage to fit nine camels within the eye of a normal-sized needle?

An extraordinarily lavish restaurant that sets out to recreate ancient Babylonian civilization.

A new hotel in the South Stand of Twickenham Rugby Stadium has just unveiled six rather special suites overlooking the hallowed turf.

The idea of dormitories, bunk beds, queues for breakfast and communal TV rooms may not give you a glowy Christmas feeling, but you’d be surprised.

A enormous steel seashell rises from the shingle beach at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. To some it’s a stunning sculpture, to others a massive eyesore.