Archive for January, 2008
Destinations Holiday and Travel Show
Earls Court is hosting this year’s Destinations Holiday and Travel Show sponsored by The Times from 31 January-3 February. The show features literally hundreds of holiday and tour operators, independent travel companies, and tourist offices and national tourist boards from around the world, in fact advice or information on just about any holiday or trip you’d like to take anywhere in the world.
Apart from the huge number of exhibitor stands other areas of the show include Destinations Sensations
Date: January 24th, 2008 |
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BootsnAll's new interactive London map
We are still working on really cool maps for Londonlogue, and those should be coming soon, but we do want to point out that BootsnAll.com, which is the main site in this large travel network, has recently launched a really cool interactive map feature as part of its recent travel guide upgrade.
You can see it by clicking on the Maps tab at the top of the BootsnAll London travel guide page, or you can take this link directly to the interactive London map. On the map you’ll find a big group of London attractions (more coming soon), and clicking on the little star by each will give you more information, including hours and prices for most everything. You can also find http://www.londonlogue.com/hotels/, hostels, and so forth on the map, so you can pinpoint the exact location of where you want to stay in London.
Date: January 22nd, 2008 |
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Enter the World of Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil are having a short run of their new show Varekai at the Royal Albert Hall until 17 February. Running alongside these performances the Albert Hall is holding a free to enter photographic exhibition called Enter the World of Cirque du Soleil which features pictures taken by celebrity photographer Veronique Vial that capture the backstage moods, special effects, costumes, set design and performances of the troupe.
Date: January 22nd, 2008 |
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Laughing in a Foreign Language
The Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery has a new exhibition starting this Friday, 25 January, entitled Laughing in a Foreign Language. The exhibition features the work of 30 international artists including videos, photographs and interactive installations to examine whether humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds or whether its more universal.
Date: January 21st, 2008 |
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Home Secretary admits London's streets not safe after dark
There was an interesting admission today in an interview with The Sunday Times by Jacqui Smith, Britain’s Home Secretary, that she wouldn’t feel safe walking the streets of London late at night, even if it was through some of the wealthiest areas like Kensington and Chelsea.
The Home Secretary is the member of the government in charge of policing and crime in the UK among other things,
Date: January 20th, 2008 |
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Annual London Survey
The Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority have released the latest London Survey, a survey carried out by MORI into the attitudes of Londoners to living in the city in regard to quality of life issues such as housing, transport, crime and jobs.
Predictably with a survey they’ve commissioned the Mayor’s office is talking up the areas that reflect positively on him, 44% expressed satisfaction with the job the Mayor was doing while 22% were dissatisfied and the GLA trumpets that as a +22 rating. Here are a selection of the other questions asked on the survey.
Q. And how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with London as a city to live in?
Date: January 23rd, 2008 |
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From Russia at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts opens a major new exhibition this weekend called From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870–1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg, which for the first time brings together a unique collection of masterpieces from Russia’s four main museums, Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery and St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum and State Russian Museum.
Date: January 22nd, 2008 |
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Adventure Travel Show
The 2008 edition of the Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show returns to the Business Design Centre in Islington this weekend from 25-27 January. The show is the place to go if you want inspiration or ideas for taking the adventure trip of a lifetime in 2008 and features dozens and dozens of exhibitors as well as seminars on subjects including travel writing and travel photography.
Date: January 21st, 2008 |
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Jazz in London
The National Portrait Gallery has just opened a new exhibition called Jazz in London: Photographs by Walter Hanlon which runs until 20 July 2008 and has free admission.
Walter Hanlon is a Scottish musician and photographer who used his contacts on the London jazz scene in the 1950s to take intimate and atmospheric black and white pictures of most of the top jazz singers and musicians who played in London during that period
Date: January 21st, 2008 |
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London News 01.16
* Five children are shot or stabbed in London every day. EveningStandard
* London 2012 Olympics budget continues to rise. DailyExpress
* New England manager Fabio Capello undrr investigation for tax evasion in Italy. SkyNews
Date: January 16th, 2008 |
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