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There are two big events taking place in
London this summer. The only other Diamond
Jubilee was for Queen Victoria and took place
back in 1887. A procession through London to
a service at Westminster Abbey, according to
Mark Twain, "stretched to the limit of sight in
both directions".
This will be London’s third time hosting the
Olympic Games, the first was in 1908 and the
second in 1948. The experience of most
modern Olympic cities is that tourism, from
overseas in particular, drops right off so in all
likelihood for much of summer 2012 London
could well be nostalgically empty - a great time
to come in fact!
Rest assured that on all of our trips there
are no inflated premium prices to pay,
our normal prices hold right through from
1 April 2012 until the end of March 2013.
So we don’t think anyone needs to avoid
London for the whole of summer 2012 but if the
thought of coming to London still gives you the
collywobbles please remember that we have
plenty of other trips on offer in East Anglia, the
South East, the South West and the Midlands.
Here’s a useful round up of key dates and a
summary of how these special events affect
bookings for our day trips.
The Diamond Jubilee
To mark 60 years of The Queen's reign the
Diamond Jubilee will take place in 2012.
The celebrations are concentrated on an
extended weekend from 2 to 5 June 2012.
There will be a special Bank Holiday for the
Diamond Jubilee. The 2012 late May Bank
Holiday will be moved to Monday 4 June 2012
and there will be an additional Jubilee Bank
Holiday on Tuesday 5 June 2012.
There will be a
Royal Pageant at Windsor
Castle
on the evenings of 10 –13 May 2012
and
The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
takes place on Sunday 3 June 2012 starting at
High Water in London at 3.00pm. The Sunday
is also the day earmarked for the Big Jubilee
Lunch – a lunch to be shared with friends,
family and neighbours. On Bank Holiday
Monday 4 June there will be a live televised
BBC Concert at Buckingham Palace and the
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Beacons – 2,012
beacons will be lit by communities and individuals
throughout the United Kingdom, as well as the
Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the
Commonwealth.
On Tuesday 5 June (remember this is the extra
Bank Holiday) a service of Thanksgiving will take
place at St Paul’s Cathedral, with a formal
carriage procession by The Queen.
We aren’t organising any tickets for these events
but we have some great day trips to help your
group mark the occasion throughout 2012.
races the life story
of HM Queen Elizabeth II and also includes an
entertaining tour of Westminster Abbey.
Over at Windsor
ncludes a visit to The Savill Garden
with an opportunity to create a special Diamond
Jubilee group photo in the Royal Rose Garden.
We are also offering trips to
to include the special photographic exhibition
The Queen: Sixty Photographs for Sixty Years.
Should We Be Coming into London
This Summer or Will it be Hell?