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Why struggle to the Taste of Spain when you can relax at the Vintage Fashion Fair

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I sometimes wonder what the point of writing a London blog is if you don’t actually use it to help people enjoy London. With so many blogs, websites and tweets about the Taste of Spain you’d think someone would mention the lack of Tubes on Sunday. Norm touched on it yesterday but he’s about the [...]

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The Weather in London in January is very cold

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(This post is for tourists visiting London with today’s weather forecast below) The weather in London in January usually catches most people by surprise by how cold it is, everyone expects December to be cold, but it’s January that’s the coldest month. The average high temperature for December and January are both the same at [...]

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Here’s a heads up on some brilliant events at Watersones in Piccadilly that will be sell outs

August 19, 2010

We don’t usually write about events a long way off because chances are you’ll forget about the event and miss it, so we tell you about things to do that are happening in a day or so. But Waterstones in Piccadilly have so many excellent things coming up in September that if we don’t tell [...]

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Raining in London, what’s a person to do – Part 3

August 10, 2010

It’s pouring with rain what can you do The museums are packed and attractions with outside queues. The day wasn’t meant to be like this Where’s the summer gone, the lazy days of bliss. – When it rains in London if you don’t know what to do Don’t run around like a headless tourist without [...]

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