Monthly Archive: April 2013

Docklands Light Railway

Al April 25, 2013 News other-articles

If you plan to visit London and you would like to do something interesting, you’ll be glad you know that HMS Belfast is going to carry out a series of special events in 2010, specially designed for the enjoyment of families who visit the capital. On 27 and 28 March will invite children to participate in an exciting game: must try to find ten rats that have escaped by boat and have dressed up as sailors. They could be hidden anywhere, so they must make good use of his detective skills! It’s a somewhat alternative version of the traditional search for Easter eggs. And best of all is that visitors to the Museum are entitled to participate in the game with only pay the price of the standard input. If you wanted to discover new attractions or monuments in London and thought that accompanied by small children might become a problem, don’t worry: here will be delighted to welcome both to adults as to children under 16 years. HMS Belfast also offers different lectures, activities and educational workshops designed to narrate its history, which goes back to the times in which formed a floating community of up to 950 sailors in an entertaining manner. If you plan to visit London soon and don’t know what to do, we recommend that you take your children to the boat and let them prove the original uniforms, play with historical artifacts and learn more about life at sea.

Sure that you will not regret! Greater ease of access if it is preparing to enjoy the attractions of London will appeal know that, thanks to changes in London’s transport, and in particular the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) line, will now be even easier to access. The capacity of the line has increased by 50%, which means that it will be able to carry many more passengers and thus facilitate access to families who want to visit the Museum of Docklands. To increase the number of trains available on line, a modernization program in which you have invested has been conducted 325 million pounds (350 million euros), in the face of the Olympic Games of 2012. Other changes that could further improve the experience of moving to London attractions include the refurbishment of Tower Gateway station, creating a new station called South Quay and the modernization of routes and the electric connections. There are many reasons to use the DLR line, but among the most prominent are the London tours led by experts from the Museum of Docklands, that run through some of the best attractions in London.

Barbican London

Al April 24, 2013 News marketing

What to do once you are in Barbican London? Many are those who choose to stay at the London Barbican area, located when visiting London to the center of the city, Barbican is a zone of general interest not only for its good location but also by the artistic and cultural interest that surrounds it. In this area of London you will also find several accommodations and a good price given the area that we’re talking about. That is why many people, including young or families and friends who choose Citadines Barbican London aparthotels situated just a few meters from the metro Barbican. Area where is located the Barbican Centre, one of the largest cultural complexes and importance of Europe where houses the Royal Shakespeare Company or the London Symphony Orchestra. Also just a short walk from its aparthotels Citadines Barbican will find the magnificent Cathedral of St. Paul. Cathedral famous for its huge central dome, the second in the world in size after St.

Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Dome which can be accessed after climb 530 steps to enjoy the magnificent views of the city of London. In addition, this Cathedral is also known for being that hosted the wedding of Prince Charles to Princess Diana in July 1981. Once in the St Paul’s Cathedral we recommend that you further a couple of streets over to get to the River Thames. River that crosses the city of London and from where you can take several cruises from half an hour to traverse the length of the same and see the main monuments situated on the sides of the River. Not at great distance from the Citadines Barbican aparthotels and towards the North of the city, can you reach the area of Shoreditch. Shoreditch has become nowadays the place chosen by the British cultural scene. Area full of bars, and small shops and showrooms of new artists and designers.

Place essential if you visit London. These are some of the closest to the Citadines Barbican aparthotels centers from where you can enjoy a only a few passes of his accommodation of some of the visits required in the city of London. But if you want to visit other centres such as Trafalgar or Picadilly Circus it is recommended to take the subway or take a small path in one of the thousand double-decker buses of London from where Besides enjoying the landscape you can enjoy these peculiar so characteristic of the city buses. Reaching even to areas such as Hyde Park, one of the largest parks in cities and where you may lose strolling his thousand roads for hours, and even if the weather is good to enjoy a picnic as they do many English as soon as the Sun peeks. Enjoyment of London without having to spend large amounts on the accommodation thanks to stays as the aparthotels Barbican Citadines, cheap and stays within the reach of all budgets in addition to be located in central areas of London.

Latin Assembly of London

Al April 19, 2013 News

On Sunday at noon was the greatest Latin Assembly of London history. The stadium of the sports center of Elephant and Castle was full of people. Attendees exceeded the 1,000 people, although some, such as esteem the Venezuelan radio producer Maricel Tamayo, estimated two thousand participants were surpassed. At this meeting they confirmed they were going to come 3 the 11 members of the London Assembly elected representing the entire city. The fact that a high percentage of representatives of the largest European city has toward latinos is something that shows the growing impact that the Latino community in the British capital is taking. The Assembly unanimously approved the platform that we passed below. It was moderated by Lopez Luz de Tiendas South and in this they used the word pastor Edmundo Ravelo, the analyst Isaac Bigio, Gloria Gomez, Dr.

Luis Naranjo educator and radialista Marcelo Garzon. Also spoke the caucusgoers Darren Johnson (green) and Caroline Pidgeon (demo-liberal), and the Labour councillor Susan Jones, who It replaced Assembly Member Murad Qureshi, which came at the end of the appointment. This is the third Assembly organized by the Latino community in the past two months. It has been the biggest of all and that most enthusiasm has generated. The public constantly applauded, carried flags and posters or stirred slogans.

The meeting became a tribute to Viviana Ati, the female voice of the Hispanic radio in London who has been forced to leave the country. Latinos demand the regularization, which stop the raids and deportations, which are protected and broaden the Latino shopping areas (Elephant and Castle and Seven Sisters) and that will not close or hit these businesses, which give to the London office cleaners (category latinos dominate) on sale in the passages and the toll, which recognize Latinos as an ethnic group, to be held a Latin month for London, which start the celebrations for the bicentennial of independence (much of the Creole leaders lived in London) and the international year of the potato, among other demands. The idea is that the Latino community is recognized by the authorities, that they take it into account and that this go by integrating to the British system. The next step will be to make this specification is signed by thousands of latinos and bsea made known to the authorities. THE photos you may see soon in WWW.COMUNALATINA.

London Piccadilly Circus

Al April 18, 2013 News for time, suitable

Piccadilly Circus is the meeting place for many of the most famous streets in London. In this beautiful Regent Street (shopping paradise), the famous Piccadilly (Fortnum and Mason, the Ritz, the Royal Academy of art), and cross cultural Shaftesbury Avenue (theatres, Chinatown). In the midst of all this is the famous statue of Eros, 1893, the winged messenger of love, which commemorates Lord Shaftesbury. The circus was originally created as part of a plan to connect Carlton House, the House of the Prince Regent, who became King Jorge IV in 1820, to Regent s Park. When Shaftesbury Avenue was created in 1885, the area became occupied with traffic and advertisers saw the potential of advertising, in 1895 first posters illuminated London they were released at Piccadilly Circus. During the following century it was the version of London’s Times Square, but only one building now carries fences. Lighting of the facades that make make the plaza known as the square of the light, began to settle in 1910, when they appeared in their corners the first electric ads from 1923 ads increased considerably, especially in the facade of the London Pavilion. Today when traveling to London can see all kinds of ads: video screens, digital projectors although the economic cost of the signage has done that already there is as many as a few years ago.

A curious fact say that the name of Piccadilly comes on the first road that in 1626 existed there and received the name of a House that belonged to Robert Baker and which was called Pickadilly Hall. Robert Baker was a well known sailor for selling piccadills or piccadillies, which was a type of necklace. The word Circus comes to describe what is a circular open space in a confluence of streets this was the aspect that initially had the area, although that form circular is lost in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.