Advantages: FREE Enteratinment, Stalls and Goodies! Disadvantages: Very Busy, Big Crowd!
...West End Live Weekend
My mum was coming up to London for the weekend so I decided to have a look in Time out to see if anything was going on in London that weekend, to my surprise and delight I discovered that a weekend event called West End Live was taking place. As many of you know I am trained in Performing Arts and enjoy going to see musicals so this was right up my street.
When was it on?
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th June 2006, 12noon - 6.30pm both days
Where was it on?
London's Leicester Square
What is it?
West End Live is a celebration of West End theatre put on by Westminster Council. The whole event is free with live performances from west shows such as The Lion King, Footloose, Mama Mia and Chicago as well as Youth Music Theatre Groups, Dance Companies and much more. The square is also filled with free...
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Resist the temptation. First, cross the Grey River and take a small diversion up the coast to the north, just an hour's drive to the Paparoa National Park. You will thereby ensure that your first taste of the west coast is not the relatively drab and developed stretch immediately south of Greymouth (only relatively, since nothing along this coast is drab or developed by European standards). North of the Grey River the country is hardly touched, and the drive takes you round...
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Advantages: Laid-back and leisurely Disadvantages: -
...KEY WEST
We have a share-ownership home (15 members) in Weeki Wachee, on the Gulf Coast of Florida, where we stay for four weeks every year. Soon after our arrival, out come the maps and we decide where we would like to go. As we have been going for nine years, we have covered quite a lot of the Sunshine State, but never visited Key West.
It is a fair distance (around 500 miles from our home) so we set off early, heading down the west coast past Tampa towards Naples. Here we had a bite to eat before making our way eastwards to Everglade City in the Alligator Alley area. At the entrance to the city (some city – one restaurant, a church and a scattering of houses) we were confronted by a signpost saying “The Last Frontier.” Quaint. Fortunately there was a hotel of sorts called the Captain’s Table. Built...
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