If you’ve been around here for awhile, you might be scratching your head, thinking you’re experiencing deja vu. That’s right. We’re back in London. Each of the women we visited there is still going, growing and serving up exceptional experiences you should seek out when you find yourself there.

This time, they each get their own episode. You get a closer look at each of their stories, their creations, their experiences. You get to envision yourself there.

They’re worth it. And so are you.

London is a massive city, but it really doesn’t take much time—thanks to the Tube—for you to find the smaller boroughs, the outer suburbs where families live, shop and play. My friend, Diana O’Gilvie, a travel journalist and founder of Urban Sass Travels, joined me for a Sunday morning in Chiswick, a quaint borough several tube stops west of the city, to visit the Chiswick Cheese Market – or as I like to call it, HEAVEN.

Like so many, I love following food stylist reels on Instagram and TikTok. It’s even better when one of them is a friend, willing to show how she flows from farmer’s market to the finished reel.

Kristina Conway is a Lithuanian-born advertising executive who married my friend, former colleague – and favorite Brit – Shane. Kristina launched her Hide My Veggies food channel on Instagram during the pandemic lockdown at their home in Chiswick, a cheeky nod to her English husband’s rather picky, beige palate. It’s continued to grow as testament to literally hiding nutritious food in delectable dishes.

The only cheese-focused market in the entire city, Chiswick Cheese Market is a literal spread, two blocks long, of the best cheeses Britain has to offer. Lucky for us, Kristina was in creator mode.

You can find Kristina’s roasted pepper and tomato pasta sauce on the @hidemyveggies Instagram account. We highly recommend you find it and make it for yourself. You’ll likely have to settle for your own local cheeses—but make sure you get to Chiswick the next Sunday morning you find yourself in London.

London is a city that will put you under its spell. I first visited here in 1986, at age 15—and the pixie dust has never shaken off.

But please: don’t follow a crowdsourced TripAdvisor list of 10 things to do here. London is a great, ancient city, and it has shown time and again its constant state of adaptation and evolution. Just when you think you know it, something is remixed, challenging its touristy status quo.

And that’s what we’re doing with our content: remixing these stories so each woman we spent time with in London, the boroughs and even out on Aldeburgh Beach in Suffolk gets her own spotlight—from wickedly-good controversial public art, to historical pubs reimagined by women chefs, to a walking tasting tour of only cheese market in the city, to the entrepreneurship of a traditional Black Cab.

London is calling you. We strongly suggest you answer.

KG