Archive for March, 2008
Tower of London Sign Language Tours
The Tower of London is running a programme of tours this year where British Sign Langauge interpreters will accompany the Tower’s famous Yeoman Warders, known as Beefeaters, as they guide visitors around.
The interpreters will pass on what the Beefeater is saying to the deaf and hearing impaired on during the Ceremony of the Keys and the regular Yeoman Warder guided tour. Sign language tours are included in the general admission price but because they’re happening on set dates they need to be pre-booked.
Date: March 16th, 2008 |
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St Patrick’s Day London 2008
London’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations take place this Sunday 16 March with a range of events taking place at central London locations including Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.
A main part of the day is the St Patrick’s Day Parade featuring marching bands, floats, costume characters, stilt walkers and street theatre, along with members of the public who sign up on the parade website to march behind one of 32 giant Irish county flags. The parade starts at Hyde Park Corner then makes its way along Piccadilly to Piccadilly Circus,
Date: March 13th, 2008 |
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London News 03.12
* Passengers at Heathrow and Gatwick face new landing fee charges, up to £20 a flight, to pay airport owner BAA’s debt. EveningStandard
* Government debating whether to make schoolchildren swear allegiance to the Queen. SkyNews
* Survey of tourists says London is Europe’s dirtiest and most expensive city. DailyMail
* London Underground workers vote to go on strike. BBCNews
* Drinkers, smokers and car drivers hit with new taxes in latest Labour government budget. TheTimes
* UK battered by high winds and gales. TheIndependent
Date: March 12th, 2008 |
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La Dolce Vita
This week London’s Grand Hall Olympia hosts the four day Italian lifestyle show La Dolce Vita with Viva Italia, an event which highlights Italy’s famous food and wine, fashion and style as well as spotlighting travel to the country and the possibilities in buying property there.
La Dolce Vita runs from 13-16 March and features well over one hundred exhibitor stands along with a programme of entertainment that includes opera, jazz, Italian rock music, talks from food writers and language lessons among other things.
Date: March 10th, 2008 |
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London Deals from Multiple Travel Sites
Many different travel sites have special airfare deals to London or special hotel package deals for when you arrive, but in order to be sure you are getting the best deal out there you normally have to search all over the internet. The good news is that BootsnAll has just added a new feature that combines all the best deals from multiple sites onto one page with just the London deals and nothing else.
There are special airfare deals leaving from specific cities, special hotel deals for a certain number of nights, and even …
Date: March 6th, 2008 |
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LondonLogue forum
The good people at BootsnAll are thinking about setting up a dedicated LondonLogue forum, somewhere readers who are coming to London or are planning a trip here can interact with other travellers, sharing information, asking questions and getting direct feedback from people who are in or have recently visited the capital.
Before they start burning the midnight oil setting the forum up they’d like to know if there’s a demand for it, would readers find it useful or do you think its something that’s not really necessary and its not the type of thing you’re …
Date: March 16th, 2008 |
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Proud 2 B Pat
Tied in with London’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations this Sunday, 16 March, a world record attempt will be made in Trafalgar Square. Proud 2 B Pat will raise funds for Great Ormond Street children’s hospital by gathering the largest number of people with the same name in one place, in the case Patrick’s and Pats.
Anyone with that name is invited to turn up between noon and 3pm and asked to bring a birth certificate or passport to verify they really are a Patrick. Guinness World Records will need
Date: March 13th, 2008 |
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Waiting for the Light
The Oxo Tower Wharf’s gallery@oxo has a new photographic exhibition starting a short run this week entitled Waiting for the Light: Photography by David Noton capturing the world’s most beautiful places.
It’s on from 14-30 March 2008 and features photos taken over the last 25 years by David Noton, one of Britain’s leading landscape and travel photographers. The exhibition is free to enter and compliments the release of David Noton’s new book of the same name.
Date: March 12th, 2008 |
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Who’s moving where at Heathrow
Air travel blogger The Cranky Flier, this weekend voted the world’s 29th most powerful blog by Britain’s Observer newspaper, has an interesting and detailed post on which airlines are moving to what terminal once Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 opens at the end of this month.
Not all changes will happen immediately but will be phased in once T5 is open over this year and into early 2009. If you’re a frequent Heathrow user and aren’t sure which of the terminals you should be heading for checkout Cranky Fliers breakdown of the new …
Date: March 10th, 2008 |
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Petrol prices
Visitors to Britain who are planning on renting a car and driving during their visit may want to reconsider their options as the price of petrol has skyrocketed 20% in the last year as highlighted in a story in the Daily Mail.
The average price of a gallon of petrol in the UK is now £4.80 (US$9.65) while a gallon of diesel costs a staggering £5.30. People on a trip here for the first time may be caught out by petrol being sold at the pumps by the litre where the cost is around £1.06 at the moment,
Date: March 6th, 2008 |
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