Articles tagged ‘Covent Garden’
St Patrick’s Day London 2008
By Chris | March 13th, 2008 |
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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 [...]
TNT Travel Show
By Chris | March 4th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
TNT, the listings and information magazine aimed at Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans living in London, are holding their annual TNT Travel Show this week on Saturday 8 March at the New Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden.
The show is free, running from 9.30am-6pm, and is a chance to get inspiration and great travel information on [...]
The Great Christmas Pudding Race
By Chris | December 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
This Saturday 8 December at 11.30am Covent Garden Market hosts the 27th annual Great Christmas Pudding Race, organized by the Cancer Research Aid Committee to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.
Their aim is to collect around £25,000 and to do this they charge competitors who enter the race. You can enter as a team of [...]
London Transport Museum set to re-open
By Chris | November 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is set to re-open next week after being closed for two years during a £22million refurbishment and upgrade. The museum’s been based at the old Covent Garden Flower Market building for the last 27 years having started life at a bus garage in Clapham during the 1920s.
The museum’s [...]
Watch the Rugby World Cup Final at the cinema
By Chris | October 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
England is getting all keyed up for tomorrow night’s Rugby World Cup final against South Africa at the Stade de France in Paris. England, the defending world champions, started the World Cup in horrible form losing to South Africa in the group stages, playing poorly against the USA and managing to get wins against Samoa [...]
Covent Garden Punch and Judy Festival
By Chris | September 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
If you have younger kids and would like them to see some traditional street entertainment, get along to Covent Garden this Sunday 30 September for the annual Covent Garden Punch and Judy Festival. Its on from 10am-5pm in the North Piazza of Covent Garden Market and is free to attend.
It’s organized by the Punch and [...]
Smoking Flashmob in London
By Chris | June 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces comes into force in England on 1 July 2007. Smokers are on the back foot you might thought, what with the ban and the price of cigarettes regularly being hit with massive tax increases, but there’s a group of smokers who are arranging a smoking flashmob event, [...]
The Lord of the Rings musical set to open in London
By Chris | June 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The most expensive musical production ever put on in London’s West End, The Lord of the Rings, gets its official opening next week after a month of previews. Its on at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Covent Garden and it sounds like getting the stage version together was as much a challenge as the [...]
London’s new Grand Tour
By Chris | June 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The National Gallery is the large building that dominates the north side of Trafalgar Square and houses a huge collection of paintings by the Old Masters, its also free to the public. In case visitors and Londoners alike have forgotten what’s in the National Gallery, they’ve decided to take their art to the people in [...]
BP Summer Series in London
By Chris | May 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has got together with BP to put on the BP Summer Series, three live transmissions of opera and ballet productions from the stage at the Royal Opera House to big screens in large squares and parks across London and the UK.
The first of the performances to be screened [...]
