Chiswick travel review: An oasis in west London

Arty, bohemian and green, the leafy suburb is the perfect place for room2, the world’s first net zero hotel

The London skyline. Chiswick skirts the River Thames in the west of the city — © Getty Images

Maxie Swain

I wonder is there a more cosmopolitan city in the world than the great melting pot of mankind that is London.

I stayed in uber-cool Chiswick on the west of the ginormous English capital a few weeks ago, and across a Wednesday and Thursday of sightseeing, restaurant-hopping and gin-guzzling, I didn’t once encounter the famous cockney accent.