Article Archive for 14 March 2010
Taxis can be expensive but £16,000 must be a pretty long trip. And so this one is. The entire journey is 4,000 miles and takes passengers into the outback of Western Australia.
So what’s so special about this one? Has some footballer or Hollywood film star with more money than sense decided to get some PR by “disappearing” in the outback? Is this another way of raising money for Sport Relief now that the English Channel has been swum and water skied?
No this is another ingenious idea from Australia to help publicise their country and get some more visitors. Last time, you might remember, it was Queensland that ran an international competition to find a warden to write a diary for 6 months on an island. This time it is Western Australia.
[ March 14, 2010; 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] http://www.london.gov.uk/stpatricksday
The parade starts at midday from Green Park and goes to Trafalgar Square. Expect about 100,000 people to join you watching the parade.
events continue in the square for the rest of the day. The annual festival continues for a few days afterwards


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