Archive for January, 2008
Which airfare site will find the cheapest fares to London?
Finding the cheapest airfare to London can be a challenge, especially when you keep thinking there is an airfare booking website that has a better fare somewhere out there. The folks at BootsnAll wondered whether the different booking sites really offered different prices, or whether they were all the same fares - so they put seven airfare booking sites to the test with six sample itineraries. One of the itineraries included London, so you can get a real feel for how the websites compare when it comes to flights to/from London.
The …
Date: January 31st, 2008 |
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Pancake Day Races
Tuesday 5 February is Shrove Tuesday, otherwise known as Pancake Day in the UK. Its the day before the start of Lent, a traditional 40 day period of fasting before Easter. In olden days observant Christians would give up eating things like meat, fish, fats, eggs, and milk during Lent and used up any of those ingredients to make pancakes before it started.
Pancake races have a tradition in England going back to the 1440s when a woman making them raced out of her house still holding a pan after hearing the local church bell call people to confession.
They’ll be some big pancake races that the public can watch or take part in on Tuesday in London.
Date: January 31st, 2008 |
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Together for London
TfL(Transport for London) have launched a new campaign to get users of buses, Tubes and trains in the capital to be a bit more respectful of other passengers. Together for London aims to get people to cut down listening to music on public transport or at least tone down the volume, stop yakking loudly on mobile phones, not bring smelly takeaway food on to buses and Tubes and to offer their seat if someone in needs requires it.
There’s going to be a poster campaign featuring different scenarios and the director Mike Figgis who made Leaving Las Vegas and Internal Affairs
Date: January 30th, 2008 |
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Burt Lancaster Season at BFI Southbank
The BFI (British Film Institute) Southbank is holding a month long season of Burt Lancaster films starting 1 February. Lancaster who died in 1994 aged 80 had a long acting career stretching over six decades, starting out as the leading man, tough guy matinee idol then moving on to more eclectic roles.
The BFI season is split into two parts, the first features classic Burt Lancaster movies
Date: January 28th, 2008 |
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London Motorcycle Show
Motorcycle News magazine are holding the 2008 London Motorcycle Show at the ExCel London exhibition centre in Docklands this week from 31 January-3 February 2008.
The show features nearly 200 exhibitors offering just about everything a bike fan could want. All the major motorbike manufacturers have stands
Date: January 28th, 2008 |
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New YHA Hostel in London
The Youth Hostel Association, which is a registered charity that has around 200 hostels throughout England and Wales that are open to everybody, is opening a brand new £4.3million hostel in central London on 6 February, joining several other London hostels.
The new facility is on Bolsover Street a few hundred metres north of Oxford Street close to Great Portland Street, and has en-suite, private bedrooms, disabled access, a luggage store, internet access, laundry facilities and a café/bar open from 7am till late. Its open 365 days a year and has 24 hour reception facilities.
Prices are from £18.95 adult,
Date: January 31st, 2008 |
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Chelsea Physic Garden Winter Openings
London’s Chelsea Physic Garden is having a couple of special winter opening weekends in February. Normally open from March to October the Physic Garden is having what its calling Snowdrop Days on 2-3 and 9-10 February, from 10am-4pm each day.
Chelsea Physic Garden is the second oldest botanic garden in England, founded in 1673 by the Society of Apothecaries to promote the study of botany and the use of plants in medicine and healing. Located on Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea close to the River Thames, its divided into a number of different gardens including the Pharmaceutical Garden
Date: January 30th, 2008 |
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Hard Rock Calling
One of the big gigs of the summer in central London has announced its line up. The Hard Rock Calling event taking place in Hyde Park on the weekend of the 28-29 June will feature Eric Clapton headlining the Saturday show supported by Sheryl Crow and John Mayer, while on the Sunday The Police top the bill with KT Tunstall and Starsailor in support.
Standard Day tickets cost £50 for the Saturday and £65 Sunday or £110 for a
Date: January 29th, 2008 |
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London News 01.28
* Image of Britannia to be removed from British coins after 300 years. DailyMail
* One tenth of British people are classified as rich, but most don’t feel it. Reuters
* High School Musical coming to the London stage. BBCNews
* Rottweiler savages owner to death on south London street. SkyNews
* Government wants drivers over 75 to take IQ tests in order to keep their driving licences. EveningStandard
* UK could be about to be hit with a big house price slump. Telegraph
Date: January 28th, 2008 |
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Australia Day
Tomorrow 26 January is Australia Day and Australian expats all over London will be out celebrating their country’s national day. It commemorates the founding of the first British settlement in Australia with the building of the penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788.
London has a whole bunch of pubs and bars with a distinctly Aussie flavour
Date: January 25th, 2008 |
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