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London City Steps: 2012 the end of the world?
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012. 2012 the end of the world? The Mayan friezes section on the ground floor is magnificent, and although this Mesoamerican civilisation was in to all types of activities, from the gory (blood-letting ceremonies), the bad (human sacrifices) to the very good (making chocolate), the civilisation that ended about 900AD has in recent years caught the popular imagination for their Long Count Calendar which ends abruptly on the 21. 8221; to which a calm, scientific answer is given as, &#...
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London City Steps
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Thursday, 26 April 2012. The Seven Qualities of a Really Really Good Tour Guide. So what does make an excellent tour guide? At London City Steps we have trained over 100 young unemployed people to become tour guides so here are the seven things that we think make a tour guide really really good:. In the mid 1700s as people aren’t too interested in 1752 or 1753 as this is a guided tour not a history lecture. Using terms such as “the 16. Century as the 1500s. The problem with the words, is just knowing the...
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London City Steps: January 2012
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012. 2012 the end of the world? The Mayan friezes section on the ground floor is magnificent, and although this Mesoamerican civilisation was in to all types of activities, from the gory (blood-letting ceremonies), the bad (human sacrifices) to the very good (making chocolate), the civilisation that ended about 900AD has in recent years caught the popular imagination for their Long Count Calendar which ends abruptly on the 21. 8221; to which a calm, scientific answer is given as, &#...
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London City Steps: Is graffiti ever acceptable?
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Monday, 10 January 2011. Is graffiti ever acceptable? Of course not, it’s illegal. But from the Rosetta Stone to Banksie, it’s been going on a long time. So can graffiti ever acquire a social value? Despite the vandalism, the most iconic image of the recent student demo will surely always be a positive one - of school girls linking hands to save a police van from being battered by vandals, surely the most iconic London photo in ages. 8221; and “Phileros is a eunuch! The Rosetta Stone and Graffiti. I was ...
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London City Steps: Tour guiding in London - a funny old game
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Thursday, 9 December 2010. Tour guiding in London - a funny old game. Tour guiding in London can be a dream job; you get to meet new people, go on brisk healthy walks, and know the secrets behind the greatest city on earth. It’s never repetitive, no two tours are the same - despite being a British Museum. Children, unhindered by self-consciousness and rampant curiosity, often ask the most penetrating questions. I was once on a tour of a Buddhist temple in, of all places, Colorado); the tour guide man...
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London City Steps: Snow, London's Nemesis
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Monday, 20 December 2010. Snow, London's Nemesis. Keeping our streets snow free. Making steps in the city is a careful activity in the snowfall we’ve had this past week. London City Steps walks are more likely to be slushy trudges so get ready to be booted, with thermals and thick socks and layers upon layers of woollens. It looks like our local councils whose responsibility it is to keep our pavements snow-free, might be running out of grit later in the winter. London’s wrong type of snow. Anyway I digr...
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London City Steps: April 2012
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Thursday, 26 April 2012. The Seven Qualities of a Really Really Good Tour Guide. So what does make an excellent tour guide? At London City Steps we have trained over 100 young unemployed people to become tour guides so here are the seven things that we think make a tour guide really really good:. In the mid 1700s as people aren’t too interested in 1752 or 1753 as this is a guided tour not a history lecture. Using terms such as “the 16. Century as the 1500s. The problem with the words, is just knowing the...
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London City Steps: January 2011
http://londoncitysteps.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Monday, 10 January 2011. Is graffiti ever acceptable? Of course not, it’s illegal. But from the Rosetta Stone to Banksie, it’s been going on a long time. So can graffiti ever acquire a social value? Despite the vandalism, the most iconic image of the recent student demo will surely always be a positive one - of school girls linking hands to save a police van from being battered by vandals, surely the most iconic London photo in ages. 8221; and “Phileros is a eunuch! The Rosetta Stone and Graffiti. I was ...
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London City Steps: December 2010
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Monday, 20 December 2010. Snow, London's Nemesis. Keeping our streets snow free. Making steps in the city is a careful activity in the snowfall we’ve had this past week. London City Steps walks are more likely to be slushy trudges so get ready to be booted, with thermals and thick socks and layers upon layers of woollens. It looks like our local councils whose responsibility it is to keep our pavements snow-free, might be running out of grit later in the winter. London’s wrong type of snow. Anyway I digr...