Oxford Street lights up for the pre-Christmas shopping season.
Photo taken by Trevor Sharot in November 2016.
Photo courtesy of Trevor Sharot. Copyright Trevor Sharot.
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Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Oxford Street Lights courtesy of Trevor Sharot, Photographer
Oxford Street lights up for the pre-Christmas shopping season.
Photo taken by Trevor Sharot in November 2016.
Photo courtesy of Trevor Sharot. Copyright Trevor Sharot.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Singapore Celebrations
Singapore is always colourful with bright flowers and blocks of flats and malls and individual houses painted pastel colours or vivid colours, always contrasts.
In August 2016 Singapore is celebrating and the banners and red and white flags will be on public buildings and private housing all over Singapore. A wonderful photo opportunity and very jolly and heart-warming and colourful.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Telegraph Travel Show Excel, London - January
The Telegraph Travel show takes place at Excel in London.
The Telegraph Travel Show to offer Escapism readers a pair of FREE tickets to the event, taking place from Friday 8 – Sunday 10 January 2016.
They also run a free shuttle bus from various stations and you can book a seat on line.
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To find your way on London Transport
https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/stop
Travel show tickets http://telegraphtravelshow.eventgenius.co.uk for bookings
Information on wine tasting at the show (some or all already fully booked, but worth a look)
http://travelshow.telegraph.co.uk/whats-on/wine-tasting
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author and speaker.
The Telegraph Travel Show to offer Escapism readers a pair of FREE tickets to the event, taking place from Friday 8 – Sunday 10 January 2016.
They also run a free shuttle bus from various stations and you can book a seat on line.
.....
To find your way on London Transport
https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/stop
Travel show tickets http://telegraphtravelshow.eventgenius.co.uk for bookings
Information on wine tasting at the show (some or all already fully booked, but worth a look)
http://travelshow.telegraph.co.uk/whats-on/wine-tasting
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author and speaker.
Friday, January 1, 2016
New Year's Day - concert from Vienna
A chance to see the concert hall in Vienna, hear music from Vienna, and as usual scenes around the city and countryside.
Sit by your TV set or monitor ready to watch the concert always broadcast late morning on New Year's Day. This year, Jan 1st 2016. Previous year's concerts are available from YouTube and other sources online.
It was on BBC2 at 11.15 am, also on BBC Radio 3 and later on the player. It lasted an hour and a half.
The BBC website has last year's concert highlights (2015).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
I just watched it.
You see the inside of the concert hall, flowers in the foreground, gold pillars, the gold statues and cherubs, the audience including a member of the UN.
You can identify different instruments in the orchestra, (see my previous post and next post). The bass players are standing at the back.
The Vienna boys' choir sings.
Recordings played back in the middle show dancers outside. Obviously they have to record these to get summertime shots of the green scenery on a sunny summer day. You can't risk rain or snow or high winds affecting the flights overhead and cameras and dancers' clothes. How the dancers keep their hair in place despite all those pirouettes and turning upside down I would like to know.
We took several screenshots and tried to identify the landmarks. I wish they had told us with subtitles. We found the Shoenbrunn palace fountain. Other aerial views from an aeroplane took the viewer over the Danube (also called Danau - depending on your language), as a visual accompaniment to the Blue Danube music. Beside the river are numerous green hillsides, stepped with lines of v i n e s, presumably many being R i e s l i n g grape variety of the area.
The end musical piece was my favourite, the rousing and rhythmic Radestky march, written by Strauss senior for an ageing general.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Sit by your TV set or monitor ready to watch the concert always broadcast late morning on New Year's Day. This year, Jan 1st 2016. Previous year's concerts are available from YouTube and other sources online.
It was on BBC2 at 11.15 am, also on BBC Radio 3 and later on the player. It lasted an hour and a half.
The BBC website has last year's concert highlights (2015).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
I just watched it.
You see the inside of the concert hall, flowers in the foreground, gold pillars, the gold statues and cherubs, the audience including a member of the UN.
You can identify different instruments in the orchestra, (see my previous post and next post). The bass players are standing at the back.
The Vienna boys' choir sings.
Recordings played back in the middle show dancers outside. Obviously they have to record these to get summertime shots of the green scenery on a sunny summer day. You can't risk rain or snow or high winds affecting the flights overhead and cameras and dancers' clothes. How the dancers keep their hair in place despite all those pirouettes and turning upside down I would like to know.
We took several screenshots and tried to identify the landmarks. I wish they had told us with subtitles. We found the Shoenbrunn palace fountain. Other aerial views from an aeroplane took the viewer over the Danube (also called Danau - depending on your language), as a visual accompaniment to the Blue Danube music. Beside the river are numerous green hillsides, stepped with lines of v i n e s, presumably many being R i e s l i n g grape variety of the area.
The end musical piece was my favourite, the rousing and rhythmic Radestky march, written by Strauss senior for an ageing general.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
World Travel Market and train strike, but 2016 will be shorter and better
This is all we need. DLR strike threat just before the annual travel event of the year, World Travel Market. Travel companies from all over the world have booked their flights in. Travel companies and the press in London are looking forward to going.
Even if we are given double decker buses from Canning Town (which happened one year previously) you get masses of q u e u e s (line-ups) as thousands of exhibitors and press and visitors get off the trains and the station is cordoned off because it is over crowded.
And any timed meeting you have - you arrive and find it's cancelled because the others have not turned up, or you are late and miss it, or it is delayed because so many are late, so it runs into the next event, then everybody packs up early to get home.
I am wondering about going up on Sunday, to pick up press releases. What a pity they don't hold a networking event for press on the Sunday.
I have friends who are travel agents and they don't want to give up a midweek working day for a travel show. Move back to Olympia/Earls Court? Is it big enough?
Next year - Good News?
The World Travel Market will be three days next year, 2016, instead of four. My first thought was, help, not enough money coming, will it get a day shorter each year until it disappears? But after continually re-reading what they say I am totally convinced by what they say, no longer fearing it's just spin. Yes, three days is better than four.
I was often so tired I could not manage 4 days. I did the first three, or the first two, then in a panic the last one, or the afternoon of the last one. I would sweep up brochures from abandoned stands. I often ended up having cocktails on one of more of the Caribbean stands which played music and served drinks until late every night.
Three longer days is good, so people spend less time away from work elsewhere, reduced fees for hotels, transport to the show. If you have to go to work in the morning to deal with post and queries, still worthwhile to go in the afternoon if the show stays on until the evening, to 7 pm instead of 5 or 6. Less cost for hiring a stand for three days instead of 4.
I went back onto the WTM's own website to look for news about the strike. The website is so full of pages it takes ages to find anything, if you are easily distracted as I am.
WTM Fun Facts
I found a page of fun facts about past shows, and animals which were invited. Red rum. The escaped parrot.
I was talking to somebody on the phone about the DLR strike. My friend said, "I thought the trains were driverless?" Even so, you need all the staff to sell ticket, and stand on platforms directing passengers, ensuring safety.
http://news.wtmlondon.com/press/35-world-travel-market-facts/
https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/news/wtm-in-talks-with-transport-bosses-over-strike-threat-1340
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Travel_Market
http://www.wtmlondon.com
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker, author.
Even if we are given double decker buses from Canning Town (which happened one year previously) you get masses of q u e u e s (line-ups) as thousands of exhibitors and press and visitors get off the trains and the station is cordoned off because it is over crowded.
And any timed meeting you have - you arrive and find it's cancelled because the others have not turned up, or you are late and miss it, or it is delayed because so many are late, so it runs into the next event, then everybody packs up early to get home.
I am wondering about going up on Sunday, to pick up press releases. What a pity they don't hold a networking event for press on the Sunday.
I have friends who are travel agents and they don't want to give up a midweek working day for a travel show. Move back to Olympia/Earls Court? Is it big enough?
Next year - Good News?
The World Travel Market will be three days next year, 2016, instead of four. My first thought was, help, not enough money coming, will it get a day shorter each year until it disappears? But after continually re-reading what they say I am totally convinced by what they say, no longer fearing it's just spin. Yes, three days is better than four.
I was often so tired I could not manage 4 days. I did the first three, or the first two, then in a panic the last one, or the afternoon of the last one. I would sweep up brochures from abandoned stands. I often ended up having cocktails on one of more of the Caribbean stands which played music and served drinks until late every night.
Three longer days is good, so people spend less time away from work elsewhere, reduced fees for hotels, transport to the show. If you have to go to work in the morning to deal with post and queries, still worthwhile to go in the afternoon if the show stays on until the evening, to 7 pm instead of 5 or 6. Less cost for hiring a stand for three days instead of 4.
I went back onto the WTM's own website to look for news about the strike. The website is so full of pages it takes ages to find anything, if you are easily distracted as I am.
WTM Fun Facts
I found a page of fun facts about past shows, and animals which were invited. Red rum. The escaped parrot.
I was talking to somebody on the phone about the DLR strike. My friend said, "I thought the trains were driverless?" Even so, you need all the staff to sell ticket, and stand on platforms directing passengers, ensuring safety.
http://news.wtmlondon.com/press/35-world-travel-market-facts/
https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/news/wtm-in-talks-with-transport-bosses-over-strike-threat-1340
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Travel_Market
http://www.wtmlondon.com
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker, author.
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