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Australian High Commission in London
Australian High Commission and Honorary Consul - United Kingdom
Australian High Commission - London
Tel: 020 7379 4334
Fax: 020 7240 5333
Address: Australia House, Strand, London WC2B 4LA (corner of the Aldwych and the Strand) - Map
Opening Hours
Office hours: 9am to 5pm, Monday – Friday*
Consular: 9.30am to 11.30am, Monday – Friday*
Passports: 9.30am to 3.30pm, Monday – Friday*
(*except UK bank and Australian national holidays)
Date: July 11th, 2007 |
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Trans Atlantic air fares set for a dog dogfight
The headline on tonights London Evening Standard was £7 flights to America on Ryanair. This follows yesterday’s report on budget airline Zoom starting to fly from Gatwick to JFK in June for £129 one way.
Ryanair’s owner Michael O’Leary said his airline, which is one of the big players in the discount flight market in Europe, wants to fly to six east coast US airports within the next couple of years and the cheapest tickets would be $12.
Date: April 12th, 2007 |
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Pet travel to the UK
If you’re coming to the UK for more than a couple of weeks and can’t bare to leave your dog or cat behind, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (defra) runs a scheme called PETS (Pet Travel Scheme) which explains the way you can bring your best friend along on the trip, without it spending six months in quarantine.
Under the PETS scheme countries outside the EU are divided into listed and non-listed.
Date: March 16th, 2007 |
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Guidebooks on disc
Sony have got together with Lonely Planet to produce a series of interactice city guides with the name passport to for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) and London is one of the initial cities covered along with Amsterdam, Barcelona, Paris, Prague and Rome. There’s also a handy little translation programme called the TalkMan on disc for the PSP which translates what you say into it.
Here’s a clip from an Australian tv show explaining both products.
Date: March 7th, 2007 |
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Adventure running in London
Physically fit and can think on your feet, like a challenge and competition as part of a small team? If so there’s an event in London in May that might suit you. Its called the City Chase and is part of an Urban Adventure series of races that takes place in countries such as the US, Canada, Australia and France, and describes itself as part obstacle course, part scavenger hunt.
The chase consists of two person teams who are given a Clue Sheet with clues to the 20 Chase Points the team must reach on the course around the city,
Date: February 15th, 2007 |
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Biggest congestion in the London area
A new report has identified the worst spots for traffic congestion in the UK and the top three places are all around the London area with the M25 London orbital featuring heavily.
The M25 is the motorway that runs for 117 miles circling Greater London and the M1 is the major motorway running north out of London to Yorkshire. The number one place to avoid jams is the section of the M1 from where it meets the M25 at Junction 6A to Junction 11 at Luton.
Date: May 14th, 2007 |
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Directory of Hotels.com
This is a sponsored post. The opinions expressed are those of the staff writers at BootsnAll.
With modern lifestyles time is one of the most valuable commodities and for a lot of people the time spent on holiday or vacation tends to be limited, so ensuring that the trip lives up to your expectations and doesn’t disappoint is one of the main things you have to think about each year.
Finding the right accomodation for you is a key ingredient to any memorable holiday, even if you plan to be active and get out to see the city or country your visiting, knowing you have a great base to come back to in the evening will always make you feel good and increase your enjoyment of the trip.
Directory of Hotels.com is a recent addition to the online travel industry, an independent guide and listing of quality accomodation worldwide. They feature everything from resort, luxury or spa hotels to boutique, all inclusive, eco friendly, b+b’s and smaller hotels. Escape the ordinary it says on their homepage and that’s what the hotels they’re listing are trying to offer.
Date: March 28th, 2007 |
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Eurobookings.com:London
This is a sponsored post. The opinions expressed are those of the staff writers at BootsnAll.
The cherry blossom is on the trees, the weather is getting warmer and spring is arriving in London, soon to be followed over the next few months by thousands and thousands of visitors who’ll come and enjoy one of the world’s great cities.
London’s at its best in the spring and summer, and while there’s a lot going on all year round, during those periods the activity levels just go up another notch and there’s something going on to interest everybody. Galleries, art shows, museums, music festivals, concerts in London’s beautiful parks, theatre (both indoor and out), great sporting occasions like Wimbledon, endless shopping, London has attractions for every taste. And the city itself is changing, lots of older neighbourhoods are becoming fashionable and trendy and places like Canary Wharf are unrecogizable from what they where 15 years ago.
Eurobookings.com is a great place to look to find the right hotel to base yourself at when you come to explore London.
Date: March 10th, 2007 |
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iperhotel.com:Rimini
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Rimini is a seaside town on the Adriatic coast of Italy that is renowned for its beaches and nightlife, equally popular with Italians and overseas visitors. The town has a population of around 140,000 and a history that dates back over 2,000 years, the Tiberius Bridge over the Marecchia River that’s still in use today was built between 14-21 AD. There’s a modern marina that’s also home to working fishing boats and an old town area full of narrow cobbled streets and cafe lined squares.
If you’re in the party mood Rimini offers a viable alternative to somewhere like Ibiza, with bars, restaurants and over 150 clubs there and in Riccione just to the south. The birthplace and former home of Federico Fellini who the international airport is named after, Rimini also has six railway stations and is an ideal base to make day trips to places like Florence, Venice and San Marino from.
iperhotel.com makes choosing the right accomodation easy if you’ve decided to take a trip to Rimini.
Date: March 5th, 2007 |
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Dates for your London diary
If you’re planning a London/UK trip in 2007 you may want to take into account when the public and school holidays are happening here and work in your visit around them. Here are this years Bank(Public) Holidays in the UK and the likely times when the kids will be running riot.
Date: January 9th, 2007 |
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