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Should I be concerned about bringing my kids to London this winter?
Over a year ago my father made a big announcement at a family dinner: “I’m taking you all to London for Christmas!” He shared that spending a Dickensesque holiday with his kids and grandchildren was a longtime dream and he ordered us all to start shopping for flights. Who can argue with that? We were all elated. And so my husband and I and our two kids are flying into Heathrow mid-December and then we’ll meet my brother and parents at a house that we’ve rented. I’ve been nothing but excited but when earlier this month the U.S Department issues a Travel Alert warning U.S. citizens of “the potential for…
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Covent Garden ? excellent entertainment zone at the heart of London
Covent Garden is nestled at West End in Central London with a history dating back to the 17th century. It was in 1630s that the 4th Earl of Bedford commissioned the British architect Inigo Jones to design and build a residential square in the West Minster Abbey’s Convent Garden. Inspired by his travels to Italy, Jones designed the very first public square of England, the Covent Garden’s piazza. Inigo Jones introduced innovative town planning features to the English community such as the Palladian architecture for buildings and well organized straight streets. In fact Covent Garden still retains much of its original streets and names unchanged to date. As time passed…
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Last night in London: the National Restaurant Awards 2010
William Drew, host of the National Restaurant Awards and editor of Restaurant magazine, dishes the dirt on last night’s winners’ dinner event in London. On the menu? Flamboyant chefs, dazzling dishes, and some of the UK’s best restaurants, boutique-hotel bistros and restaurants with rooms… ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– I’ve just emerged from a large room full of the UK’s most brilliant and thus rather hot-tempered chefs, with several baying for my blood, and I’m still alive. What’s more, I am somehow still the editor of Restaurant magazine, the restaurant trade’s bible. Last night I hosted the National Restaurant Awards at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden. This annual industry jamboree has a…
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London Hotels ? How to Find Best Accommodation in London
London is one of the busiest cities in the world and is always humming with tourists, business travelers, visiting families and friends. Discount London Hotels are always busy keeping these travelers happy and comfortable all round the year. The record number of tourists that visit London beat any other popular tourist destination around the world including Paris, Rome, and similar. There are thousands of hotels in and around the city that range from boutique hotels to cheap and budget hotels. All you need to do is to take your pick that suits your budget. You can find good hotels in Greater London area that can spoil even the pickiest of…
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Budget Hotels London is Proving London as the Brain of London
Historians of the English constitution said “London acted constantly as the purse and sometimes as the brain of England”. Time-by-time, its evidence can be seen thru various incidents. In 1665 it overpowered the great plague bravely and in the following year again its supremacy was proved by recovering itself from the great disaster of fire which destroyed more than 13,000 houses, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Royal Exchange, 86 churches and most of the guild halls. Nowadays, London is known as the most expensive city in the world but still concept of budget hotels exist here. Bayswater and Victoria are the places in London where one can get budget hotels…