Mar 9th, 2012 at 5:00PM: A new exhibit in London is dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, the icon of beauty from an era when "beauty" meant something other than "built like a fourteen-year-old anorexic junkie."
Marilyn opens today at the Getty Images Gallery and will feature iconic photographs and original dresses from Monroe's many films. It also tells the story of how she rose as an aspiring actress to become one of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Marilyn Monroe exhibit opening in London
Mar 9th, 2012 at 5:00PM: A new exhibit in London is dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, the icon of beauty from an era when "beauty" meant something other than "built like a fourteen-year-old anorexic junkie."
Marilyn opens today at the Getty Images Gallery and will feature iconic photographs and original dresses from Monroe's many films. It also tells the story of how she rose as an aspiring actress to become one of ...Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee: 2012's other major British event
Mar 2nd, 2012 at 11:00AM: In London, signs of the coming Olympics are everywhere. Barclays Cycle Hire docking stations have begun to expand into East London toward key Olympics sites, billboards urge drivers to begin to think about how they'll deal with increased traffic, and the Prime Minister is busy warning unions that the prospect of a strike during the Olympics would be "unacceptable and unpatriotic."
Meanwhile, ...Child on rocking horse is the latest statue on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
Feb 25th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square has gotten its latest adornment--a giant bronze kid on a rocking horse.
Trafalgar Square is one of London's most visited spots. In fact, it's hard not to go there since it's right in front of the National Gallery and is a nexus of several important roads. Three plinths flanking Nelson's Column support statues of a king and two generals, and a fourth ...St. Bride's Church in London: a place to honor fallen journalists
Feb 23rd, 2012 at 1:00PM: I am not a Christian. I have read the Bible twice and have attended the services of several denominations and remain unconvinced. Despite this, any time I'm in London I go to an old church off of Fleet Street to pay my respects.
Fleet Street used to be the center of London's journalism industry and St. Bride's was the journalists' church. The newspapers have since moved away to less expensive ...Video of the Day: Splitscreen: A Love Story
Feb 14th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Whether you love or hate Valentine's Day, there's no escaping the amorous feelings in the air today. We might as well make a contribution with today's Video of the Day. This short film, released last summer, celebrates transcontinental love: two sets of eyes, one in New York and one in Paris, passing days with similar experiences until the moment the eyes unite (reunite?) on London's Golden ...
London's worst rated hotels
Feb 14th, 2012 at 9:00AM: The bathroom was a biohazard. The sheets smelled like curry and body odor. Conditions you wouldn't find in the worst Compton crack house. I wanted to puke at the site of dirty water overflowing into the hallway onto the already moldy carpet. We did not have breakfast as we were afraid for our health.
These are a sampling of user-generated Trip Advisor reviews for five of the very worst rated ...Britain's Heritage Cities are ready for visitors
Feb 11th, 2012 at 8:00AM:
Thanks to the London Olympics, which will open on July 27, and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, 2012 is expected to be a boom year for tourism in Great Britain. In the hopes of capitalizing on this trend, six historic cities have teamed up to get noticed by travelers intent on venturing beyond the English capital.
Bath, Carlisle, Chester, Oxford, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and York, Britain's ...London hotel offers champagne baths
Feb 9th, 2012 at 12:00PM: While drinking a 2002 Dom Pérignon, have you ever thought to yourself, "Damn, this stuff is so good, I should take a bath in it!" Well, you're not the only one with such luxurious fantasies. Starting Valentine's Day and running through the next year, the Cadogan Hotel in London will be offering a menu of champagne baths to guests who want to try out the ultimate bubbly bath.
What's your ...A video tour of 1950's London's swingin' coffee bars
Feb 3rd, 2012 at 3:00PM:
Contrary to popular belief, tea is not the only popular beverage served in London. In fact, ever since the first Italian espresso machine crash landed in England in 1952, London has had a swinging coffee culture. Now thanks to the vintage documentary reel above, you can take your own tour back in time to the beginnings of London's fledgling coffee shop scene.
Hit play and enter a time when ...
Five overlooked attractions in London
Jan 16th, 2012 at 9:46AM:
London is full of great places to see. No matter what your interests are, this city has something for you. In fact it has so much there are some incredible attractions that are overlooked by the majority of visitors. Here are five you might want to visit.
Kew Bridge Steam Museum
The Kew Bridge Pumping Station, built in 1838, once supplied water and power to London through massive steam ...
London's Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens Alberto Burri retrospective
Jan 15th, 2012 at 1:00PM: The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is one of London's best small art museums. Housed in an elegant Georgian mansion on a quiet street in the London borough of Islington, it has the best collection of modern Italian art in the city and perhaps the nation.
Its latest exhibition is Alberto Burri: Form and Matter, a retrospective of one of the leading Italian figures in modern art. Burri ...The British Museum has great lineup for 2012
Jan 12th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Travelers to London this year will want to stop by the British Museum. Not only is it one of the top museums in the world, with huge collections from the Classical, Egyptian, Medieval, and pretty much every other period, it also hosts several temporary exhibitions every year. As a regular visitor to London I always make sure to see as many of these exhibitions as I can.
The first is Hajj: ...Luxury Vacation Guide 2012: East London
Jan 10th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
London, a perennial tourist favorite, is no stranger to the luxury travel market. What's relatively new is the proliferation of luxury hotels and other venues in traditionally working-class East London.
In 2012, East London's reputation as luxury territory will intensify. Why? The Olympics, mostly. London hosts the Summer Olympics from July 27 through August 13. The Olympic Village along ...Orbitz "Insider Index" predicts London, Chicago and Austin will be popular in 2012, looks at 2011 and 2012 travel trends
Jan 8th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
According to Orbitz's annual survey, released this week, London, Chicago and Austin are primed to be top travel destinations in 2012. The "Insider Index" used both travel experts and the OTA's booking and consumer search data to predict what they think will happen in the 2012 travel market.
Hotspots for 2012
London: London will mark its place in history as the only city to host the ...Four top treats from my 2011 travels
Dec 31st, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Since I've been a travel writer for three decades, people often ask me if I don't get tired of all the traveling and writing. After all, when you do anything for 30 years, it must get boring, right?
Wrong! I guess that's one of the gifts of this line of work. Every trip, every place, offers something new, even if I've been there a dozen times before. This year I took four big trips -- to ...World's first pop-up mall: London's Boxpark
Dec 27th, 2011 at 3:00PM:
Millions of us will head to the mall this week to return gifts or buy what we really wanted from the after-Christmas sales. Chain stores, fast food courts, and packed parking lots are what most of us associate with shopping malls, but a new retail concept in hip East London is looking to change that. Boxpark is the world's first pop-up mall, made out of 60+ shipping containers that house a mix ...Chinese tourists chart a new European Grand Tour
Dec 24th, 2011 at 11:00AM: According to BBC Travel and the China Daily, approximately 70 million Chinese nationals traveled abroad in 2011, up from 10 million in 1999. A chunk of this new crop of Chinese tourists is traveling to Europe, but their itinerary veers a little off the trodden path.
BBC Travel outlined some of the historical highlights of the "new" European Grand Tour: cities like Trier, Germany, the birthplace ...Travel meets journalism at Roads and Kingdoms
Dec 20th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
Last month, writers Nathan Thornburgh (a contributing editor to TIME and recent guest of Fox News) and Matt Goulding (food & culture writer and author behind the Eat This, Not That! book series) launched a new website with the intriguing tagline: "Journalism, travel, food, murder, music. First stop: Burma." Combining on-the-spot reporting on current events and politics with in-depth cultural ...Medieval manuscripts in Los Angeles and London
Dec 14th, 2011 at 4:30PM: Two major exhibitions on opposite sides of the globe are focusing on the art of medieval manuscript illumination.
At the Getty Center in Los Angeles, a show has just opened highlighting the burst in creativity and education in what is popularly called the Gothic period. Gothic Grandeur: Manuscript Illumination, 1200–1350 features books from this important period, when educated Europe ...10 reasons to travel to Ljubljana
Dec 13th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
When I found cheap airfare from Istanbul to Ljubljana, I didn't find many other travelers who'd been there or even say for sure which country it's in. The tiny of country of Slovenia is slightly smaller than New Jersey and its capital city isn't known for much other than being difficult to spell and pronounce (say "lyoob-lyAH-nah"). After spending a few days there last month, I quickly fell ...
