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The 2012 Notting Hill Carnival takes place on the 26th and 27th of August, Sunday the 26th being children’s day and the 27th the carnival for the adults. The carnival fills the streets of West London with sound and colour and of course the aromas of some fabulous food too. The Notting Hill Carnival is an August Bank Holiday Tradition and sees London holding the biggest street festival in Europe. Visitors to the city can expect to see vibrant colours, hear calypso music and taste a variety of Caribbean food…

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Venues all over the city have been given over to the countries competing at this year’s Olympics, with more parties, celebrations and incredible international food and drink on offer that you can possibly get though across the duration of the games. On Tuesday we talked about the Hospitality Houses being operated by European Nations so today here are the details of the Hospitality Houses being operated by the Non European Nations. Africa House – Kensington Gardens Rather than being the home of just one country, Africa House is an amalgam…

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Top city venues have been given over to competing nations so that they can inform and educate the people of London about their culture. Each of these National Houses will be equipped with giant screens so that visitors need not miss any of the games. Parties are planned; celebrity chefs in place and famous sporting and entertainment faces look set to attend to support their nation to boost both trade and tourism to their distant shores. Many of these houses are open to the public for the duration of the…

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It once cut into the skyline of London, a dramatic outline against the Victorian architecture of the city. Now over a hundred years later it remains in place, flanked by its guardian sphinxes yet many people in the city hurry past it, too caught up in their busy lives to give is a second glance. Its peak no longer stands proud of the buildings that surround it, as over the decade larger structures have started to dominate the skyline. Yet for those who are new to the city the sight…

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There are plenty of interesting places to visit in London, which goes without saying, but occasionally it can all get a bit much for the younger members of the family. After all when you are a child there are only so many suits of armour you can look at and period rooms that you can walk around without getting a little tired and to be honest, a little bored too. But there is a place where you can go where you can combine learning about history with something fun and…

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In a city with such a dark and sordid history as London, it should come as no surprise that there are one or two spectral remnants of the city’s darker past lingering in the back street and alley ways. This is a city that has seen mass death caused by disease and war as well as being the playground of several mass murderers including the infamous Jack the Ripper cases. But it is not only the dark and disused corners of the city that harbour spectres from the past, many…

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After travelling the length and breadth of the country the Olympic flame is heading into London to mark the start of the 2012 Games. Since the flame arrived from its sacred home in Greece it will have spent, in total, seventy days travelling around the United Kingdom before finally making it to the Olympic Stadium in London to officially mark the commencement of the games. Across the course of those seventy days the flame will have been carried by an array of incredible people, from the famous to the ordinary.…

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If you venture into Leicester Square the next time you visit London, make a point of stepping into the brightly coloured and somewhat surreal world of the M&M’s. However if you happen to be a chocoholic it would be better if you went in there with your hands tied behind your back with someone less included to eat their way around the store in charge of your purse! What you will find is a staggering 35,000 square feet of store dedicated to those funny little M&M characters and the tasty…

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Speakers Corner has been attracting attention from locals and visitors to the city for the past one hundred and fifty years. It has to be one of the most unusual and unique visitor attractions in the entire city. There is no building to visit or memorial to look at, but if you venture into Hyde Park on any Sunday morning you will find people there ready to share their views and opinions with the world. Gathering at the point where Hyde Park meets Oxford Street, overshadowed by Marble Arch the…

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The Royal Artillery Museum is believed to be the only military museum that has been continually open to the public since 1820.  Situated in Woolwich, the museum has a history that no other museum in its field can match. Moving to its new home within the Royal Arsenal Gates in 2001 the museum was opened under its new name, the highly appropriate ‘Fire Power’, giving visitors a clear indication of the type of exhibit that they will find inside its walls. The Royal Arsenal is the original home of the…

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