If you are visiting London from outside of the United Kingdom, you will probably fly into one of the 3 major London airports which are Heathrow Airport, Gatwic Airport and Stansted Airport. The biggest of the airports is Heathrow which is one of the busiest airports in the world. Heathrow is 15 miles (24 kilometres)…
The big day is fast approaching, your wedding has to be perfect, every last detail needs to be attended to. You need to book the location, whether that is the traditional church or perhaps as in recent years somewhere a little different including getting married at the local football (soccer) stadium. Then there is the…
The actual word ‘Bus’ is an a shortening of the Latin word ‘Omnibus’ which means ‘For All’. The first recorded incidence of an omnibus service was a horse drawn public omnibus service introduced by Blaise Pascal in Paris, France. The service lasted 15 years before being withdrawn because the cost of the service had become…
On February 8th 1956, passengers boarded what was to become not only a national icon but an internationally recognisable symbol of Englishness along with the ‘Red Telephone Box’, the ‘Red Post Office Box’, the ‘Mini Cooper’, and ‘Big Ben’. That cold and snowy February morning back in 1956, the Route 2 departed from Golders Green…
