Heathrow airport (near to London) — the largest airport of the United Kingdom. This airport is the 3rd on volume of transportations in the World and the 1st on number of foreign tourists.
The Legendary British Airport
Heathrow airport is considered one of the most loaded and most comfortable airports in the World. Each terminal has currency exchange offices with accessible exchange rates, information racks and information bureaus for placing of visitors. There is also a section of storage of luggage. Heathrow airport has special licence «CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence» (№Р527), allowing to carry out flights and to train in flight business.
In Heathrow there are 17 international hotels of different level of comfort and the price. To reach them from Heathrow it's possible by the bus «Heathrow Hotel Hoppa» from «National Express» company. Besides it there is a rent car service and a protected Heathrow parking. For safety responsibly aviation division of Capital Police though the national army, including special divisions, also is involved in the airport when it's necessary to strengthen protection degree.
At Heathrow airport there are Anglican, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish priests. Heathrow airport has own mass-media consisting of six photographers and one television command, working for the most popular newspapers and telecasts worldwide.
At Heathrow, taxi are usually built in turn on the special airport parking, because to "carry" passengers is a truly competitive & profitable business. The fare is supervised by the taxi counter and highlighted on the display. Additional payment, for example, in the evening or during week-end, is here too specified. Tip, usually at a rate of 10%, is paid at your discretion.The taxi drivers at Heathrow airport are not obliged to agree on transportation of passengers on a route exceeding 20 miles but if they agree also a route lies across London, it's necessary to pay for journey so much, how many is shown on the taxi counter. If the taxi driver agrees to finish the passenger in point outside of London, payment for journey makes a reservation before.
Train Eurostar following from Paris to London, could not deliver passengers to destination, informs AFP early in the morning on Monday, on February, 22nd, referring to the British mass-media.
Off-schedule stop in a county Kent
On Sunday nearby 22:00 on local time the train has stopped near to Ashford (Kent, UK) and could not continue movement. For 740 passengers Eurostar it was necessary to send a spare train which has taken them to London. What is the time passengers have stayed in the stopped train and as long they reached destination, is not specified.
One of passengers stopped nearby Ashford has informed trains to channel Sky News, that after a stop in cars light is switched off and ventilation has ceased to work. Thus the interlocutor of the British TV channel has noticed, that passengers have easy concerned a supernumerary situation.
Technical malfunctions and suspicious luggage
On preliminary data, the technical malfunctions which character is not specified yet became the reason of a stop of a train nearby Ashford. Also it became known, that departure of other train Eurostar from station in Paris on Sunday late at night has been detained because of suspicious luggage.
On December, 18th, 2009 five trains Eurostar, plying between the Great Britain and continental Europe, have got stuck in a tunnel near La Manche. More than 2 thousand passengers of trains have stayed some hours in full darkness with the switched off ventilation and heating. The cause of accident had been named bad weather conditions — record frosts for the Western Europe. On one of versions, because of a difference of temperatures in a tunnel and on a surface the condensate which has put trains out of action was formed.
To whom as not Eurostar which trains ply on a railway line "Paris-London" to know about last changes in London.
London is changing
"London is changing" — a plot of an advertising campaign of the known transport company showing in new light known all a cliche about the Great Britain.
London of the future: steel bends of a public monorail, dirigible balloons instead of omnibuses, lawns instead of asphalt and contactless card Barclay Oyster instead of tickets. The concept "Welcome to the future" for advancement Barclay Oyster was offered by London agency BBH.
London in the near future
For a visual embodiment the art director of agency Philip Rook has chosen such specific stylistic reception as matte painting, widely applied in the film industry. Sources matte painting leave in days of Gold Hollywood when there was a requirement for scale fantastic panoramas. Artists drew unreal landscapes on glasses which it was imposed over an initial material. Today in style matte painting create, certainly, by means of computer programs.
For work on cloths of London the famous masters matte painting Jean-Marie Vives and Mathieu Raynault have been invited.
I Love London!
It is impossible to tell, that Vives and Raynault have cardinally changed shape of London. On the contrary, all essence of the project in that modern city landscapes have been recognised at first sight, but got shape of future.
The unusual advertising campaign at support of the television and traditional outdoor advertising has been started on Monday.
In the Great Britain there were sheep promoters
Sheep in the field near to London airport Gatvik walk about in firm jackets with an emblem of railway company The Train Line and the Internet site address.
London railway company The Train Line
The company hopes to "broadcast" advertising on sheep on national level if responses to these announcements are positive.
The Roof Gardens — a magnificent refuge with abundance of exotic wildlife and the thematic gardens lifted on height of 100 foots over street.
In this biggest in Europe to a garden on a roof you can take pleasure in champagne in the Spanish Garden or take a look at city horizon, having received improbable sensations in the centre of London or to relax in an extensive English Garden, at a pond with ducks and a flamingo. A choice for you.
Old-fashioned, with uninteresting architecture, but through this airport it is very convenient to fly. The express train comes directly on station Victoria Station. It is necessary to notice, that from the aesthetic point of view the English airports now concede to all to the rests. The concrete structures, any ugly carpets… Full contrast German.
Since January, 6th, streets of London there go 200 buses with atheistic advertising by boards. There it is written "Possibly, the god does not exist. So cease to worry and receive from a life pleasure". Except this basic slogan, it is a lot of Einstein's citations and Douglas Adams.
Advertising is paid by voluntary payments within the limits of campaign founded by the popular writer of a science by Richard Dawkins. In plans counted donations on the sum of 5 thousand pounds, but since October of last year have offered the whole 135 thousand that will suffice on 800 buses. To propagandise atheism street advertising undertook in reply to similar campaign of the religious group promising not to Christians infernal torments forever, and without everyones it is probable".
The unusual advertising campaign at support of the television and traditional outdoor advertising has been started on Monday.
