There are many reasons to be proud of living in London, not least a splendid listings site that helps you find out all the best things the capital has to offer. But now there’s another thing to add to this illustrious list: London’s taxis have just been voted the best in the world. Yes it’s true, they may be overpriced and their drivers may be, ahem, opinionated. But according to a recent survey, London’s cabs are the friendliest, safest, cleanest and most knowledgeable in the world. Fab, huh?

In terms of things that are actually interesting though, London is arguably the centre of the contemporary art world, and next week provides a good example of why. There’s Morrissey-inspired video art in Bethnal Green, incredible documentary photography by Tom Hunter, psychogeographic drawings in Hackney, a knitted cafe, and a man with a horse on his head doing some kind of shamanic ritual. But how to get to all these things? Why, in a cab of course.