Editor London on the Grass for Homegrown Sports

When most of us think of London we think of the Sex Pistols, double-decker buses, old castles and folks that speak English a little like what the language used to sound like a long, long, long time ago. However, it’s our job at PAPERSKY to present countries, cities, towns and people in a slightly different light. So when we gave London a second look we were pleasantly surprised to find that the city has an awful lot of nice parks with nice grass, green grass, fluffy green grass, beautiful fluffy green grass… and there you go. We had captured the essence of London, and even a bit of linguistic style as well.

We went ahead with our brainstorming and did a bit of research on the subject of grass and what we found was that over 30% of London is filled with open green space and that it boasts more parks than any other city of its size in the world. In short, London is the city of grass. And what do the Londoners do with all this grass? They play sports, and mainly games they invented. Yes, that’s right, football, golf and tennis were all born here.

For this issue of PAPERSKY we focused on games that most of us enjoy in Japan along with our English friends and came up with a good mix of sports to play and watch on your next trip to London. We visited all of the English Premier league football stadiums in the city, got down on our knees and felt the velvet-like grass at Wimbledon and did a bit of putting at one of the world’s most famous casual golf courses, just a few minutes by train from the center of the city. So breathe in the fragrance of freshly cut green grass and tee up for your next trip to London!

PAPERSKY #19: LONDON  on the Grass

Tags: nature, sport