One minute you are hunting for a restaurant to round off your Christmas shopping and the next you are saving mankind again! Mission HQ found in a shopping mall As our hotel was near the Tiergarten it was only a short walk to the Europa Center near Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Located right next to the Kaiser… More Illusional Mind
This year, we got invited to a Christmas Party at the newly refurbished Coach and Horses in Leyton. As well as a chance to listen to Christmas Blues over the meal we also got the chance to travel through a time portal back to New York in 1935 to solve a murder and hunt for… More Gangsters Treasure Found In Leyton
That’s what happens when you build a reputation as International Savers of the World. One minute you are enjoying a trip visiting German Christmas Markets and the next your assistance is required to investigate strange goings on at a diner in Nevada…… We raced to help the Illuminati Escape Team with their latest discovery. Illuminati Escape… More Alien Grill, Nevada
“The Golden Age of Hollywood” lasted from the end of the silent era in the late 1920s to the early 1960s. However, its heyday was the 1930’s and 1940’s, as motion-picture admissions started to decline from 1946. That wasn’t going to affect a new group of Hollywood hopefuls. Wannabe producers, directors and actors were transported back in… More Lights, Camera, Action!
It had been a while since we’d played an escape room so when one of the team suggested we try out a new company in East London we jumped at it. A short time later we found ourselves walking down a slope into what looked like a garage. At the end was the entrance to London… More The Prisoner
Halloween-themed haunted houses first emerged during the Great Depression as ways to distract young tricksters. Groups of families would deck out their basements with home made scary decorations. Then they would hold “house-to-house” parties, where the children would travel from basement to basement, experiencing different scary scenes. Trails Of Terror A 1937 party pamphlet is quoted in Lisa… More Haunted House Trail
Not a big attraction in the UK (yet), there are over 1,200 professional haunted houses, 3,000 charity-run spookshows and 300 theme parks that operate horror-themed events in the United States. Creating scares is not a recent phenomenon – but in the past it was used for different purposes. The ancient Egyptians used scares to keep body… More Scary history
Science Gallery London is a cultural destination designed to connect art, science and health in one space. This new “museum” is at the Guy’s campus of King’s College London at London Bridge and is free to enter. As well as the exhibitions, there is a shop and a cafe. We stumbled across it as we were leaving London… More Science Gallery London
All the World’s a Stage “Shakespeare’s Globe is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse designed in 1599 and a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare’s work and the playhouse for which he wrote.” The centre of the theatre, and standing space in front of the stage, is open to the sky. The… More Visiting The Globe Theatre