London Places to Go
From major cities to the off-the-beaten-track destinations, we’ve got this place covered. We’ll share the hidden gems that only a local can discover.
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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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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The France Show 2008
The France Show 2008 takes place this week, 18-20 January, at London ’s Olympia Grand Hall. Its a show for anyone interested in France, whether just holidaying there, moving permanently or perhaps with an interest in French culture.
The show is divided into five distinct zones, Property, Travel, Language and Culture, Lifestyle, and Food and Wine. The Property Zone features over 200 exhibitors
Date: January 16th, 2008 |
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Get Set London Roadshow
The London 2012 Olympic organizers and the London Development Agency are running a three month series of Olympic roadshows called Get Set London which will be visiting boroughs throughout the capital until the beginning of April starting tomorrow with the first one taking place in Trafalgar Square.
The idea is to promote what the Olympic Games is supposed to bring to London in terms of job and business oppurtunities, sports and facilities, and the regeneration of parts of the East End. It runs from 10am-6pm
Date: January 8th, 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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Discount London Theatre Tickets
The Society of London Theatre is currently running its sixth annual Get Into London Theatre campaign, offering discounted theatre tickets to over 40 top West End shows including Billy Elliot, Chicago, The Lion King, Grease, Les Miserables and The Lord Of The Rings.
Each show is offering one exclusive price, either £15, £25 or £35 there’s a maximum of 8 tickets per booking and you’ll be allocated the best seats left available.
Date: January 16th, 2008 |
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Russian Winter Festival
The 4th annual London Russian Winter Festival takes place in Trafalgar Square this coming Sunday, 13th January. It marks New Year according to the old Tsarist calendar, a holiday that is still celebrated in Russia today.
The festival will feature Russian street games, puppet theatre, wandering street entertainers and musicians as well as Russian craft and food stalls selling among other things blinis, pirozhkis, borsch, shashlik and genuine Russian beer. The centre of the festival will be the main stage which will have traditional Russian song and dance as well as contemporary Russian rock and pop performances.
Date: January 8th, 2008 |
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