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Goodge Street underground station will re-open with restricted hours after being closed since the spring due to the coronavirus. Goodge Street Station will be open from 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday. From Monday 31 August the station will open Monday to Friday from 7am to 7pm only, says Transport for London. The station was …
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By J.E. Fairweather [I had just spent about six weeks to my sister in Perth, Ontario, having travelled to her from New York overnight by Greyhound (it took around 20 hours). I was on my way to Los Angeles by train. I had to travel from Brockville, Ontario to Toronto to pick up the sleeper …
If you are in search of an active holiday in 2015 then an event in west London during January will help you decide what to do and where to go. The Adventure Travel Show at Olympia London brings together a huge collection of travel companies, writers, filmakers and explorers, with stalls, talks, seminars and films. And Fitzrovia News is …
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A new guide book describing walks in and around London is being launched at a Fitzrovia pub this Wednesday (12 November 2014). Freedom Pass London is written by local author and editor of Fitzrovia News Mike Pentelow and illustrated by photographer Peter Arkell. Intended as a companion to The Freedom Pass travel ticket it describes …
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By Beryl Burton I wish someone had told me just how beautiful St Ives is: when the sun shines. I would have gone there long ago. As it is, it took me until June this year to discover for myself why it is called the English Riviera. I arrived at St Ives station early afternoon …
By Adam Harrison ‘Budet voina’ – ‘There will be war’ – my friend Olga turned and said to me just a few months into my stay in Crimea in the autumn of 2003. It was a pre-Orange Revolution world in Ukraine; she was not anticipating the stirrings of Kievan revolt against the elections that would shortly …
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Beryl Burton escapes London for a week to experience living high up in the mountains As soon as the vehicle turned on to an unpaved road leading through a large pine forest, I knew I had made the right decision to come to Lia Gård. All I knew was that it was a retreat centre …
