Durham Mysteries 2010 will see some of the UK’s finest literary talents come together to bring a new twist to some of the world’s best known stories.
The event will include ten plays, each one a dramatisation of stories from the bible. The plays, which were originally performed in the County during medieval times, are being modernised for a 21st century take on their stories.
Durham Mysteries 2010 will run from May 27th to May 29th. Each evening, visitors will be able to see all ten plays performed. The plays will cover Creation through to the Last Judgement, with stories including Noah and the Flood, Cain & Abel, The Nativity and the Fall of Lucifer.
EAT! NewcastleGateshead is back for it’s fourth year, and this year promises to be better than ever for this exciting food festival. This year, EAT! will be promoting local food producers, restaurants, and culinary talent. The festival will a wide range of events including “The Big EAT!” – a free weekend of street food markets, mini festivals, demonstrations, and food adventures.
The Big EAT! will take place on Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th June 2010. The following weekend sees Secret Paladares return to the city as five more amateur chefs from a range of ethnic backgrounds will welcome visitors to their homes for authentic international dining experiences.
You can learn more about the EAT! festival, and see a full calendar of events, at NewcastleGateshead.com.
Celebrating the tradition and popularity of racing in Yorkshire, the third annual Yorkshire Racing Summer Festival promises a feast of quality racing, live music, entertainment and fabulous prizes, celebrating the tradition and popularity of racing in Yorkshire. Taking place between 17th and 25th July 2010, the week-long festival is a fantastic opportunity to take your family to the races. New for 2010 is The Festival card; this allows visitors to pre-purchase more than one raceday during the Festival (minimum of two days for just £20) saving up to 35% off admission prices. Plus, accompanied children under 16 years of age are admitted free of charge!
Cumbria Tourism is embarking upon a campaign to bring back the much loved tradition of sending postcards after increasing numbers of holidaymakers are instead turning to texting and tweeting whilst on holiday.
New research shows that more people prefer to send their holiday news home via their mobiles or social networking sites, which has prompted the organisation to launch a Wish You Were Here campaign encouraging its 15 million annual visitors to rediscover the art of sending the Great British postcard – in star studded style.
Research commissioned by YouGov PLC online revealed that only 27% of UK Adults have sent a postcard in the last 12 months. A staggering 14% even said that they had not sent a postcard in over a decade meaning that if this trend continues, postcards could eventually die out as younger generations use social networking as part of every day life.
This simply means that when you are looking at an entry on any of the sites – be it a hotel or a museum or whatever – you can instantly see what it looks like ‘on the ground’ so to speak.
It’s probably easiest if we show you some examples:
Royal Crescent, Bath – from this entry page, click the ‘more info’ tab and select Google Street View and you’ll get this.
Le Meridien, Piccadilly – from this entry page, click the ‘more info’ tab and select Google Street View and you’ll get this. (The hotel entrance is at the front of the queue of black cabs waiting outside.)
Brecon Theatre, South Wales – from this entry page, click the ‘more info’ tab and select Google Street View and you’ll get this.
See it for yourself by browsing the sites – we now have literally thousands of places across the UK marked on Google Street View.
240 years ago to the day, William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in Cumbria (then Cumberland). Living in the Lake District, one of the most beautiful corners of England, the famous poet fell in love with the landscape around him, and often wrote about it. Here is an extract from David Dimbleby’s ‘A Picture of Britain’, highlighting William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ poem, arguably his most famous work.
On 4th April 2010, at Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, there will be all kinds of Easter fun with new egg hunts in the maze, children’s activities and workshops. There will be thousands of eggs to be found and lots of other Easter prizes.
Families will be asked to crack Cheshire’s longest Easter egg hunt this April. Businesses and attractions positioned along the A49 – stretching from Sandiway to Tarporley – are today joining forces to provide a full day of fun.
Anyone wanting to take part in the event will be asked to make a donation to CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). The charity was chosen after an appeal for support from the headmaster and children at Eaton Primary School, in Eaton near Tarporley.
Those who turn up on the day at any of the attractions and make a donation will get a passport that they can have stamped at each of the stops along the A49. Once they have collected a stamp from the 11 destinations they will be entered into a draw giving them the chance to win one of 11 prizes.
Durham’s Outdoor and Active Week takes place from 5th to 11th April 2010 and features more than 19 events including mountain biking taster sessions, guided walks and hikes, orienteering, archery, twilight photography walks, outdoor lawn tennis and a multi-activity day featuring quad bikes and mud buggies at Fury Events in Witton Gilbert.
The week showcases County Durham’s dramatic natural landscapes, beauty spots, parks, gardens and visitor attractions and aims to encourage people in North East England to explore the region on their doorstep.
The IOC has agreed to allow the sport of Pooh Sticks to be played at the London 2012 Olympics. The venue chosen for the event is, perhaps unsurprisingly, London’s Tower Bridge. A.A. Milne, who invented the game for his son, would never have imagined that it would one day become an Olympic sport. Competing Olympians will drop sticks into the River Thames from the bridge and then wait to see whose stick will cross the finish line first. Unbeknown to many, there is already a World Championship Poohsticks race that takes place in Oxfordshire each year, but this is the first time that the game will feature as an Olympic sport.
Mysteries 2010 will see some of the UK’s finest literary talents come together to bring a new twist to some of the world’s best known stories.
EAT! NewcastleGateshead is back for it’s fourth year, and this year promises to be better than ever for this exciting food festival. This year, EAT! will be promoting local food producers, restaurants, and culinary talent. The festival will a wide range of events including “The Big EAT!” – a free weekend of street food markets, mini festivals, demonstrations, and food adventures.
Families will be asked to crack Cheshire’s longest Easter egg hunt this April. Businesses and attractions positioned along the A49 – stretching from Sandiway to Tarporley – are today joining forces to provide a full day of fun.
The IOC has agreed to allow the sport of Pooh Sticks to be played at the London 2012 Olympics. The venue chosen for the event is, perhaps unsurprisingly, London’s Tower Bridge. A.A. Milne, who invented the game for his son, would never have imagined that it would one day become an Olympic sport. Competing Olympians will drop sticks into the River Thames from the bridge and then wait to see whose stick will cross the finish line first. Unbeknown to many, there is already a World Championship Poohsticks race that takes place in Oxfordshire each year, but this is the first time that the game will feature as an Olympic sport.
