четверг, 4 декабря 2014 г.
Let's hear it for privileged access! Was going to say Katy and Karen have emptied the pockets of fou
Royal London's the theme for the new edition of The London Walks Podcast. Brought to you by Karen, author of Royal London; Andy, who played world poker tour schedule George VI; Shaughan, who can impersonate every royal under the sun; and Adam, the only person I know who talks like a really well written magazine article! More
on the London Walks Blog. "...want to thank you for all the daily tidbits about London which i absolutely adore, I also thank you for this cool game which I'm starting to enjoy a lot! :-) Cheers!" Two clicks and a scroll down takes you there. More
London Walks has better guides – including world poker tour schedule the distinguished crime historian who is "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper"! Here are the dates Britain's foremost crime historian will be guiding the Ripper walk between now and the end of February. More
Want the real thing? Rather than a cup of hot water and a teabag. And most definitely rather than something that costs a king's ransom. Well, let London Walks beam you in. Get in touch and we'll tell you where. Local knowledge – you can't beat it!
Yes, the International Homicide Investigators Association wanted to hear from the world's leading expert on Jack the Ripper. And that's what we mean when we say "There's no comparison" between London Walks guides and the knock-offs. More
books in the pipeline. Aunties' Charley, Charles' autobiography, world poker tour schedule is published next month. To be followed by a London Stories companion volume – it takes as its subject our Day Trip, out-of-town destinations. And Rachel's book on Jewish world poker tour schedule London. And "The World's Greatest Guide" – Karen's – on Royal London.
In the starting lineup of "The World's Greatest Guides". Yes, it's London Walks guide Karen. The august American travel publication Travel & Leisure has just crowned her in their "The World's Greatest Tour Guides" article. world poker tour schedule She's one of just 15 – and, yes, the only one from England. More
"Helen Marks discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters world poker tour schedule of the River Thames" is how the BBC is trailing the Radio 4 programme on Thames Beachcombing. It's aired bright and early – 6.07-6.30 am – on New Year's Day. And then available on BBC Iplayer. And there'll be a rebroadcast.
and guiding! Back from China, Donald Rumbelow, "internationally recogised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper", world poker tour schedule will be guiding the nightly – 7.30 pm from Tower Hill Tube – Jack the Ripper Walk on... More
The at-a-glance list of all of our out-of-town trips (to Stonehenge, Oxford, Winchester, Cambridge, Hampton Court, Bath, Rye, Constable Country, Lavenham, Avebury & Lacock, Glastonbury & Wells, Leeds Castle, St. Albans, The Cotswolds, etc.) this summer. All 128 of them! More
Let's hear it for privileged access! Was going to say Katy and Karen have emptied the pockets of four stunning London interiors and laid the contents out before us. Empty schmempty . It s better than that. They take us into those pockets . Some of them are places* world poker tour schedule you wouldn t be able to get into if you weren t on this walk. Special places, privileged places. Here s John Betjeman on one: unique world poker tour schedule and irreplaceable world poker tour schedule and part of literary and theatrical London. It's historic quite different from a museum because it's living and in use, not an exhibit. And its setting, its street? It s unmitigated London human in scale, irregular in height and width, the kind of street that's fast disappearing. So: Downton Abbey film location, lost rivers, faded menus, whipping post, ballet students, private dining rooms, portable flogging and beheading kit, Pearly king, silver-domed trollies, night watchman s tardis, famous actress's ashes in a tea caddy, horseshoes, personal letters and gifts, Grand Cigar Divan, cabinet particulaire where the prince and the actress dined privately, etc...here we come! Great walk. So come on in! *On 3 floors, all of which we visit!
Yes! Eternal London. Landmark London. All the big ticket stuff. Palaces. The Changing of the Guard.* 10 Downing world poker tour schedule Street. The Royal Peculiar. .Places where world history was made. All of it's must see London. What makes this one a game-changer is the way we see it . We nook and cranny world poker tour schedule it. Get around behind. world poker tour schedule Get inside. See things Londoners let alone the tourist hordes never get to see. It's that specialilty London Walks is famous for the degree of granularity that you get . Everything from the import of a black circle by the 2 on a certain world poker tour schedule clock to what the Horse Guards are actually world poker tour schedule guarding. Revealed by Kim , Rex or Anne-Marie . *The Changing of the Horse Guards ceremony takes place every day. It's up close, right there, intimate. We'll be there. world poker tour schedule The Buckingham Palace ceremony isn't held every day. On the Thursdays when it is on we'll of course see it. Now, want to read a bit more? Here's a related take on this walk.
Four words* that make my blood race. Hasn't yet been discovered . And hand on heart, if you just want postcard London this one's probably not for you. But if the sightseeing equivalent of Granny Bonds isn't your thing, well, step this way. This way for old fat-lined bacon curing ovens and disused warehouses and converted factories. For the industrial corsetry of the London Bridge Quarter. For the wrong side of the tracks. But it's the right side of the tracks world poker tour schedule because world poker tour schedule something's world poker tour schedule happening world poker tour schedule here. This is a London neighbourhood coming out of its chrysalis. It's got a buzz. (And I don't mean the apiary.) In sum: 1) you won't have seen this part of London; 2) it's very central; 3) Kate Moss was here; 4) it's got a couple of cutting edge little galleries and museums; 5) it's only a seven-minute walk from Borough Market world poker tour schedule (and today's market day); 6) we start with a fab of riverscape (to say nothing of he most important mediaeval fortress in Europe and London's great iconic bridge); 7) we end with the only seven-star hotel this side of Dubai. Guided by Chris or Ann . *Right up there with hidden places, hidden history .
This isn't just Brunel. It's a voyage and a walk into the birthplace of modern London . So, yes, under three Brunel bridges and over two Brunels' tunnels to the best kept secret in London. And into the bargain, a sightseer's London checklist , from the Houses of Parliament to the Tower of London. Icons. And that secret. Several secrets, world poker tour schedule actually. A secret gateway for the Czar of Russia. Six dead men on a haunted ship. Broken bones by the silent Harpy. Broken slipways on the Isle of Dogs. Shattered columns, shattered dancers, world poker tour schedule magic at the Tunnel Club. Mind-melting magic. Outcroppings of the past that haven't been swallowed by the passage of time. That tell of the monster ship. And of the world's most important tunnel. That more than tell. That take us down into the darkness world poker tour schedule where men died and Brunel met with destiny. N.B. Oyster or 2-Zone Travel Card recommended for our short train journey. There's an extra charge world poker tour schedule for the boat ride but we get you a rate. And there's no queuing our tickets are reserved.
This is the great classic world poker tour schedule London Walk . It explores the very heart of the City - the most historic part of the capital. Threading their way through an intricate network of narrow alleys and cobble-stone lanes, Tom, Judy and Fiona chronicle the 2,000 years of London's rich and tumultuous history. And illustrate it by drawing world poker tour schedule upon everything from street world poker tour schedule names to ancient customs to the frozen music of London's great buildings, among which are the ruins of the Roman Temple of Mithras, the Bank of England, the Lord Mayor's Mansion House, and ancient Guildhall. (The walk includes, whenever possible, a visit inside Guildhall!)
Now here's a champagne cocktail of a walk. It's a marriage made in heaven: the best address in London and a top drawer guide a chevalier and a place where Old Masters and old money, Rolls Royces and glamour, titles and butlers are par for the course. It's hob-nobbing with knobs on it because Mayfair's been home to Clive of India, Disraeli, Handel, Florence Nightingale, Jimi Hendrix, Dodi Fayed, and the Earl Mountbatten, to name but a few. Last but certainly not least, it boasts London's best village within a village Shepherd Market, a charming little nest of alleys that hasn't lost a jot of its 18th-century scale and village atmosphere, let alone its raffishness. Now, who's for a little photo-essay indeed our sexiest photo-essay!
Guided by the pied piper of Beatlemania ( so let me introduce you to the one and only Richard P.) , this is a chance to Imagine Beatlemania and the Swinging 60s. It's a Magical Mystery Tour of the Beatles London haunts: their Apple offices, where they played the famous rooftop session Paul McCartney's headquarters; and the world famous Abbey Road Studios and the Abbey Road crosswalk. Richard P , recaptures the era when London was the cultural capital of the world and the Fab Four were its rulers. Here's a grab from the walk . And if you'd like to know more about the area where you'll be meeting Richard, well simply click me!
This is the cornerstone, the great seminal London world poker tour schedule Walk . Miss it and you've missed London. For Old Westminster is London at its grandest: the place where kings and queens are crowned, where they lived, and often were buried. It's the forge of the national destiny, the place where the heart of the Empire beat, the Mecca of politicians throughout the ages. The past here is cast in stone and we take it all in: ancient Westminster Hall, the Houses of Parliament, the Jewel Tower, and Westminster Abbey. world poker tour schedule And to see it with a great guide is to have that past suddenly rise to the surface...like seeing a photographic print come up in a darkroom. It doesn't get any better than this . And embarras de richesse , we'll also explore the private face of Westminster the London equivalent of Georgetown! Unlike the tourist hordes, we'll get to see the hidden and ever so picturesque Georgian back streets where all the political salons are! We end at the Cabinet War Rooms , the fortified bunker that housed Winston Churchill's centre of operations during the war. You'll get a
Подписаться на:
Комментарии к сообщению (Atom)
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий