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Days Out in London: Four Fun Ways to Enjoy our Capital City
London’s history dates as far back as AD43. From the invasion of the Romans right through to 2012’s Olympic success, our capital city has seen its fair share of action over the years. Today it’s a bustling multi-cultural metropolis full of amazing landmarks, quirky bars and restaurants, art galleries, museums, markets and stunning parks. Come rain or shine, tourists flock to the city to enjoy all it has to offer, but whether you’re a visitor or a Londoner born and bred, there is always something exciting to see or do north or south of the river. Here are four fun things that are sure to make great additions to days…
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Six Unusual Wedding Presents (and the stories behind them)
As you’ll no doubt have noticed, the wedding season is in full swing. So in celebration of the many big days happening all across the country at the moment, we asked some of our friends and colleagues to tell us some of the, lets just say… more unusual wedding presents they or their friends have received. Here are a few of our favourites: 1. Electronic Singing Fish
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Unusual Summer Food: Ice Cream Flavours and Things to Grill
When the sun comes out, the stodgy food gets pushed to the back of the cupboard and fresh, light and barbecued food becomes the meal of choice. The classic burger, salad and ice creams are much loved, but we thought it might be interesting to explore some of the lesser known summer foods available. Fun Flavoured Ice Cream Everyone loves an ice cream (or a sorbet!) when the sun has got it’s hat on. Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, mint choc and honeycomb are popular choices and it seems that flavours are becoming even more adventurous year on year. Anyone with an ice cream maker and a colourful imagination can get creative…
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London Days Out: What Happens on a Wimbledon Tour?
For several years I have been lucky enough to host our Red Letter Days experience at Wimbledon, and I never tire of it. Wimbledon – as a venue and a great sporting event – really can make all of us proud to be British, and everything about this experience shouts quality and a thorough respect for upholding tradition. The 2013 Championship was certainly different, with the loss of so many big names in the early days, the controversial slips on the grass, Marion Bartoli, an endearing new ladies champion, and of course the nation’s joy at the success of Andy Murray winning the Gentlemen’s Singles title yesterday – congratulations to him! It…
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Inside the Experience: Meet Liu from Animate and Create
As well as offering you great ideas for Father’s Day (hint hint) and telling you all about our team at Red Letter Days, we also want to take you behind the scenes to meet the people who run our experiences. So we interviewed Liu from Animate & Create, who run our animation experience days, to find out what it’s like to work at their model and film making company. Could you please introduce yourself and tell us what do you do at Animate & Create? Hi, my name is Liu, and I am the Animation Team Building and Experiences Days Events manager at Animate & Create. I promote animation workshops as a…
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Meet The Staff: Interview with Rebecca Landey
On this month’s Meet The Staff feature we’d like to introduce our colleague best known as Bex. What is your name and job title? Bex – Corporate Administrator. What does your job entail? Making sure our corporate clients orders are placed, queries answered, wishes granted and demands met! I work with the Corporate Team who are a really good bunch. How long have you worked for Red Letter Days? Six years, doesn’t time fly? What do you like best about your job or the company? The people at Red Letter Days are great, especially those I work with everyday. I love setting up and managing big schemes with the Corporate Account Managers. What Red…
