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Sleeping with sumo wrestlers in Tokyo: a 24 hour guide to the city

Sleeping with sumo wrestlers in Tokyo: a 24 hour guide to the city

The Boat team returned home from Kyoto via one of the craziest places in the world, Tokyo, Japan. This is our 24 hour guide to the city that sleeps, with sumos.  

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A Look Inside Issue 5 - Kyoto

A Look Inside Issue 5 – Kyoto

As a biannual magazine, twice a year the studio feels like Christmas again. Today is one of those days.

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The Clameens

The Clameens

If you’ve seen the short film about the special edition newspaper we created in Derry~Londonderry, you might have the very catchy soundtrack caught in your head. Here we catch up with the band who wrote it, The Clameens, about making music in Derry.

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Watch The Making of Boat: The Special Edition

Watch The Making of Boat: The Special Edition

At the beginning of March the Boat team flew out to Derry-Londonderry to make 5000 copies of a special edition all about the city. We collaborated with local writers, photographers and artists and went to print in just one week. Watch the making of video here.

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Up My Street - Shakespeare & Company, Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris.

Up My Street – Shakespeare & Company, Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris.

“It’s a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookshop” – this is how late owner George Whitman once described Shakespeare & Company, the bookshop that many writers over the years have come to call home. We caught up with Laura Keeling to hear what it’s like working, sleeping and reading in Whitman’s utopia today.

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The Special Edition

The Special Edition

If you did not happen to be in Derry-Londonderry last weekend when we were handing out 5000 free copies of our special edition newspaper, fear not! The digital edition has arrived and you can read all 32 pages right here, right now.

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We're in Derry!

We’re in Derry!

If you’ve been wondering why the Boat team have been unusually quiet lately, this is why. We’ve been busy preparing for a special edition of Boat all about 2013 City of Culture Derry~Londonderry. Click on this luggage tag to see what we’re up to right now!

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Up My Street - Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Up My Street – Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Boat will be in Japan next week for the making of Issue 5 Kyoto. Fashion blogger Kjeld Duits gives us a glimpse into the mis-matched lollipoped Harajuku street style that could only be Tokyo.

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Lesser Known Bristol: A Smugglers’ and Pirates’ City

Lesser Known Bristol: A Smugglers’ and Pirates’ City

“What does a man want more than a pocket full of gold and a mermaid”, Peter Martin.

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Boat’s Top Ten Posts of 2012

Boat’s Top Ten Posts of 2012

With the world not ending and all, we have put together our favourite ten posts of 2012.

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DJ Derek

DJ Derek

It’s safe to say that I rarely interview someone who spends the first fifteen minutes discussing the Wetherspoon’s pubs in my hometown of Stoke-on-Trent. Then again, it’s safe to say that this interview, with Derek Morris or DJ Derek as he is more commonly known was never going to be anything other than a unique...

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Sticky & Sweet

Sticky & Sweet

Christmas is the one time of year your eyes are allowed to be bigger than your belly. The recipe alone for Laura’s Caramels will have you licking your lips. Just make sure you make too many.

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