Articles tagged ‘London’
How to swear like a London local
By Chris | April 23rd, 2008 |
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British people like to have the image of themselves as courteous and polite even if that image has taken a bit of a battering over the last few decades with anti-social behaviour, lager louts and football hooligans becoming more the norm. The use of of swearing and bad language, while always being present, seems to [...]
London travel tips for first time visitors
By Chris | April 1st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Spring is here and travellers and tourists will soon be arriving in London in ever bigger numbers. For the first time visitor there’s a myriad of places to go and things to see once they get here especially if the trip is only short, maybe over an extended weekend. Here’s a quick look at some [...]
Olympic Torch Relay London
By Chris | March 31st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
China recieved the Olympic flame from Greece yesterday in a ceremony in Athens. It will travel to Beijing for a welcoming ceremony in Tiananmen Square before leaving to visit 21 cities on six continents, one of them being London. The flame will arrive in London next Sunday, 6 April, and be taken on a Torch [...]
New YHA Hostel in London
By Chris | January 31st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
The Youth Hostel Association, which is a registered charity that has around 200 hostels throughout England and Wales that are open to everybody, is opening a brand new £4.3million hostel in central London on 6 February, joining several other London hostels.
The new facility is on Bolsover Street a few hundred metres north of Oxford Street [...]
Home Secretary admits London’s streets not safe after dark
By Chris | January 20th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
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 [...]
London Film Premieres in November
By Chris | October 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
08 November - Om Shanti Om A big West End premiere for this new Bollywood extravaganza featuring a host of big name Indian film stars including Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Shilpa Shetty (well known in the UK for winning the show Celebrity Big Brother). The premiere takes place at the Empire Leicester [...]
The NFL Explained
By Chris | October 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The ground-breaking first regular season NFL game outside of North America takes place at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday and it’ll be interesting to see how much attention it draws from the British media and casual sports fan. Not a great deal would be my guess, even though the game’s a sellout and there are [...]
New stats on London’s population
By Chris | October 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London has one of the most cosmopolitan populations of any big city in the world and one that’s constantly changing with waves of new immigrants arriving as anyone will tell you. In the part of North London where I live, Eastern Europeans, Somalians and people from other muslim countries have moved in quite rapidly in [...]
NFL heading for London
By Chris | October 17th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
London’s gearing up for the arrival of the regular season NFL with the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants taking place at Wembley Stadium on 28 October. It’s a 90,000 sellout and if they had a bigger stadium they could have easily filled that, half a million people applied for tickets.
The New [...]
London Boroughs - Kensington and Chelsea
By Chris | October 5th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, just to the west of central London, is one of the most densely populated authorities in Britain and also one of the wealthiest. Its one of the smallest boroughs geographically, almost boot shaped and running from the River Thames in the south to Kensal Green in the north, [...]
