Foreign Language Students
by Wexen
I know that a great number of European and Asian people travel to the UK for a couple of weeks in the Summer to study and improve their English.
Whilst it is a good idea to help any Group Leaders find their charges in a crowd, the bags/backpacks and stickers which are provided by the companies that arrange these trips also give a good indication to less ruly members of British society, that they are a good target for mugging and assault.
It has become so bad in some areas that schools are boycotting those areas and no longer booking trips to them.
So if your child is coming to the UK for Language courses, please tell them not to use those bags,backpacks and stickers outside of arranged trips or when being met by their transport at airport and ferry terminals.
Stonehenge
by mjmaniezzo
Ok. SO . . . .
I Did it !!!!!!!! Yahooooooo
Thanks for the info.
I used LondonConnections the price was 36 pounds /hour and they were great. Not only did we go to Stonehenge but also to Salsibury and saw the Cathedral and the Magna Carta and the orginal site of the old Sarum (Castle).
Great Day
We met the driver just after 11:15 and returned to the sirport at 5:30.
The weather was beautiful the driver (Keith)on of the princples of the company was engaging, entertaining and knowedgable. Highly recommend this company.
It total we hired the driver for 5 hours.
Having said all that I should point out we did not rush through Stonehenge. We enjoyed the site and took our time to listen to the audio guide provided. Salisbury was a but shorter but we did stop for a guick scones and tea and also spent some time chatting with the guide/guard and the Magra Carta.
London is an Attitude
by mrclay2000
A vast representation of London's architecture is brooding, stony-faced and ashen. Featureless blocks of granite in every neighborhood loom four, five and six stories high, so many faces all frowning, grave and sober. The severity of these lifeless blocks may have been designed to reflect the stiff upper lip of the English mindset, but they also rob too many cityscapes of any impressions of joy or laughter.
B4 there was photography there was painting!
by irisbe
Arrived at Leicester Square I notice a statue in honour of Sir Joshua Reynolds, a 18th century portrait painter. Born in Devon, he has been apprenticed by Thomas Hudson. Next he moved to London, then to Italy and passing over Paris back to London.
Because of the help of Lord Edgecumbe, and because of his talent, he became the most popular portrait painter of the age.
His fame made him rich so he could afford himself a big house in Leicester Fields. As happened with many painters they let their pupils participate in their work and his students have been regularly been responsible for the background painting of his works.
All this good fortune made him deserve the title of first president of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. The honours didn?t stop: in 1769 he was knighted and in 1784 he officially became principal royal portrait painter.
After he died in on February 23rd in 1792, he was buried in the St. Paul?s Cathedral. Funny to reflect on the fact that he has painted so many portraits and now he is pictured by so many tourists :-)
Must grin cheesily and point at all women
by gussymons
This ancient English custom is obeyed always. When speaking to women in dresses, one must grin and point at them with one hand.
Otherwise they will go and report you to the police for aggravated rudeness.
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Abney Park, Hackney, London, UK.
Liftable roadway over the dock lock
A privately owned collection of diamonds - Vault.
St Katherines Dock
