Traditional afternoon tea

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By Lara Kavanagh in London—

A proper afternoon tea in London can be an expensive affair, with the classic set-up usually costing a hefty £40 or £50 per person. Delightful as it is to indulge at renowned institutions such as Fortnum and Mason or Claridges, you can save a bundle of cash by booking an alternative high tea prepared by students of the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu patisserie school.

Afternoon tea with Le Cordon Bleu

Tea party with Le Cordon Bleu

108 Marylebone Lane
UK W1U 2 (tel. 020 7969 3900)
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This monthly event, at which you can feast on the elaborate creations of pastry chefs in training, is held at 108 Marylebone Lane Restaurant & Bar, at the Marylebone Hotel. The menu includes an enticing array of cakes, pastries and classic scones with jam and clotted cream, plus other treats such as sugar sculptures, macaroons and strawberry and champagne mousse.

The next event takes place on December 1, 2010 from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. The price per head will be a very reasonable £9.95. The first two events of 2011 will be held on February 8 and March 9 at the same time, and places are priced at £13.95. Bookings, plus information on further dates, are available via email or phone.

Other options for tea and cake

If your visit to London doesn’t coincide with one of Le Cordon Bleu’s events, here are some alternative budget-friendly options for a great afternoon pitstop.

Bea’s of Bloombsury
44 Theobald’s Road
WC1X 8NW
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Afternoon tea: £9.90
Served: Monday through Friday 2:30 p.m.-5:30; Saturday and Sunday noon-5:30 p.m.

Candid gallery café
3 Torrens St
EC1V 1NQ
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Open: Monday through Saturday noon-10: p.m.; Sunday noon-5 p.m.

Betty Blythe’s Fine Food Pantry
73 Blythe Road
W14 0HP
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Open: Daily 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

The Bridge Coffeehouse
15 Kingsland Road
E2 8DA

Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

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This Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting is so good. It is one of those recipes that I could just sit and eat by the spoonful. It was so good that I knew I had to post it in time for all your holiday baking.

Many times when I make a new recipe I wait several weeks before I post it. I am a planner and scheduler, so it works best for me to plan ahead. I am not usually a cook and post right away type of person.

However, when I made this frosting yesterday, I knew I had to post about it right away.

I can see this frosting on so many things. It would be good on a basic chocolate cake, but I can also see this on a carrot cake, a banana cake, a spice cake, or even an applesauce cake. Really, this frosting would be good on just about any cake.

I made it to use with my cake mix cookies. I made the gluten free version yesterday and it worked perfectly for these.

My husband ate some of the leftover frosting on graham crackers and he said it was very good that way.

And what I love about this frosting is it is not only good, but really easy.

This makes quite a bit of frosting, so depending on what you are using it for you may want to half the recipe.

Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 8 ounces of cream cheese, softened
• 3/4 cup caramel ice cream topping (if you are gluten free be sure to use a gf one)
• 6 cups powdered sugar

1. Beat butter and cream cheese well.
2. Add Caramel and mix until well combined.
3. Slowly beat in powdered sugar until smooth.
4. Use for cake, cupcakes, etc.
5. Enjoy!

Christmas in London

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Have you ever taken a trip to London before? If not, why not spend this Christmas holidays in London as a way to discover this beautiful city? And even if you have been there before, tourism in London during Christmas time is of course something very special and worth seeing. The city changes a lot with the snow and you will get to live like a real Londoner.

Christmas in London means one of the best times to enjoy tourism in London. With people spending Christmas at home, the main landmarks and sightseeing places in London are much less crowded; the streets are very quiet and mostly free of traffic. This is a time of the year when you can really have a good time enjoying tours in London. Would you like to give it a try? What are you waiting for? Tell your loved ones, pack your winter clothes and get ready for your trip to London! Check availability, prices and BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS TOUR IN LONDON.

Also at this time of the year, flights to London and hotels in London offer special prices, with lots of budget-friendly packages. That is often the case, especially if you book in advance, but last minute specials should also be around soon.

If you are looking for a good tour in London and you will be there for Christmas Day, maybe you would like our Christmas Morning London Panoramic Tour. This comprehensive city tour in London gives you a great opportunity to see London like never before.

Our luxurious air-conditioned coach will take you to all the famous sights in London. You will really enjoy doing tourism in London with the company of our guide, who will explain the history of London while touring the empty streets.

The Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament and the Big Ben, the Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s Columns will be some of the famous sights you will get to visit in London’s West End. Of course, as Christmas Day is a holiday in London, you will not be able to enter these venues, but we will see them from the outside, in a privileged time when no one else is around.

If you are the kind of traveler that loves taking good pictures, make sure to bring your favorite camera and tripod, and a lot of battery. You will have the time of your life taking pictures of the main sights, with no need to ask other tourists of London to move, nor to wait for your turn.

Our comprehensive tour of the city is the perfect introduction to London for first time visitors, but it is also a good way to see London from a different perspective for those who have already been there.

The Christmas Morning London Panoramic Tour will take place on Christmas Day, December 25th, 2010. We will depart 9am from Victoria Coach Station in London. Our city tour of London will take place in English and it will finish by 12.15pm also in the same departure point. We offer hotel pick-up and drop-off for some central hotels; contact us and ask if you are interested and bear in mind pick up times will be earlier than the scheduled departure.

All transportation fees, as well as the blue badge guide are included in the cost of the tour. If your hotel is not included in our list of pick-up and drop-off hotels in London, we advise you to also book a taxi service in advance; there will not be public transportation available on Christmas Day.

If you want to make your experience more special, you can upgrade your Christmas Morning London Panoramic Tour to incorporate two other special activities planned for your holidays in London: a River Thames cruise and a traditional Christmas Lunch. This is a good way to make this Christmas in London a memorable one for your loved ones.

Our special Christmas Lunch has a menu catered for the occasion. We offer a welcome drink that will be followed by a starter: the chef’s homemade soup, accompanied with roll and butter.

For the main course, there will be a regular menu and a vegetarian option. The regular menu is composed of roast turkey with onion and herb stuffing, chipolatas and bacon rolls, roasted potatoes, parsnips, Brussels sprouts with roast chestnuts, carrots, gravy and cranberry sauce. Vegetarians can opt for slow-roasted butternut squash filled with a black truffle and accompanied by baby asparagus risotto.

As always, the best comes for dessert time, which in this case will include a dark and white chocolate gateau with cream, followed by coffee and mince pies. Is your mouth watering already? Make sure to include the Christmas Lunch option when you book your Christmas Tour by London. In this case, the tour will finish 3.15pm in the Westminster Pier.

Enjoy a special time in London with its sights, its streets, its decorations, its holiday atmosphere and its delicious meals. We hope to meet you there this holiday season! Check availability, prices and BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS TOUR IN LONDON.

9919 Jefferson Boulevard

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9919 Jefferson Boulevard is located in Culver City, United States. In recent years the City has witnessed an influx of galleries, graphic design houses, architectural firms, executive and marketing offices of major apparel companies and entertainment companies. Designed by Steven Ehrlich Architects, this project consists of two three-story office buildings consisting of approximately 113,000 gross sq ft of building program and 122, 000 sq ft of subterranean garage. Project to be LEED certified.

All building including stairs, elevators and restrooms have been taken to the outside in order to provide for a maximum of uninterrupted lease space. The two buildings share a vertical circulation core, located in between the structures within the courtyard space, with additional stairs at the front and the back of the buildings.

Design Material – Progressive exterior of architectural steel framing, green tinted solar glass, and a signature mosaic panel system. Concrete floors, ceilings, columns and balconies. Building Features – Exterior walkways and corridors.  Two levels of subterranean parking.  Spacious outdoor courtyard with seating and lush landscaping.

Ristorante Cracco Peck di Milano

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Cracco Peck is a restaurant in Milan, Italy. Originally opened in 2001 as Cracco-Peck (an offshoot of the famous Milan food store, Peck), Ristorante Cracco is the flagship restaurant of Venetian-born Carlo Cracco. Carlo Cracco is a lot more than an emerging chefs, he is the leader of the new group of Italian young chefs. The restaurant is set in an elegant building in the city centre and its cuisine re-examines Milan’s tradition. It is no surprise that this year Ristorante Cracco has climbed an impressive 21 places up the list.

The cuisine of Carlo Cracco is emphasise from a unique wine cellars of 1800 labels, the result of an accurate selection from all the best wines present on the world market. His specialties include white truffle dishes and risottos.The kitchen offers typical Milanese recipes with the addition of creative touches and international influences. A typical dishes are cassoeula (stewed pork rib chops and sausage with Savoy cabbage), osso buco (stewed veal shank with a gremolata sauce), risotto alla milanese (with saffron and beef marrow), busecca (stewed tripe with beans), and brasato (stewed beef or pork with wine and potatoes).

 Features: Celeb Chef, Celeb Sightings, Classic, Wine List Extensive, Good for Groups, Good Service, Desserts Exceptional, Handicapped Accessible, Hot Spot, Metrosexual, Molecular Gastronomy, Power Lunch, Private Parties, Prix-Fixe, Uptown Style.

Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany

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The new monochromatic buck up structure at Porscheplatz is designed to be a specific icon of the “Porsche Idea” presented, pressure organic its complexity, inside. more than three decades proximate the original Porsche Museum opened in Stuttgart, Germany, the family-owned automaker invested more than $130 million in an all-new facility to present the storied saga of the marque. The new museum is designed to be appreciative further than 200,000 visitors each year. In addition to the 80 historic vehicles on yawning display, the inspiring digs houses a workshop whereas restoration, historical archives and generous conference areas. We were invited to a idiosyncratic preview of the new Porsche Museum useful days before the doors officially opened last date. chance us inside being a tour after the jump.

The first Porsche Museum opened its doors in 1976. Located imprint Zuffenhausen, a parish of Stuttgart, the private museum was trifling and intimate. undoubted was identical high-reaching enough thanks to about 20 exhibits, although experienced were literally hundreds of near-pristine cars in storage out of the public’s eye. Nearly five years ago, Porsche recognize out to build an all-new museum.

100 Eleventh Avenue

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Every apartment at 100 11th, NY has a unique pattern of powder-coated steel window mullions-its unique “fingerprint”.  These mullions body specific views. Open, curved or rectilinear spaces have been allocated to permit since a broad peculiarity of furniture configurations that take full improvement of the light and views.

Kitchens flow spatially into open vital room areas and slant tactics fixtures conceived by Jean Nouvel to achieve the highest annul of carte blanche and originate superiority to complement art and furniture. These generously proportioned environments are unconcerned of aces steel, etched further undarkened glass, terrazzo, and custom lighting.

Jean Nouvel’s “total design” approach is exemplified by his use of hugely engineered bath fixtures conceived by the architect for Jado. The sleek touch-sensitive fixtures include computerized water flow and temperature sensors, and are complemented by glass, mirror, and Corian surfaces, minimalist Kohler tubs also bedew closets, and inspired storage solutions.

The Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina

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The Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (M.A.D.RE) stands grease the historical heart of Naples, carry through to the Cathedral besides the jewel of St. Januarius, a hundred yards from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale again the Accademia di Belle Arti (Galleria d’Arte Moderna) squirrel the senile fold of San Lorenzo.

The Museum owes its present to the joint that houses it, the Palazzo Donnaregina, which stands coming up to the priory of S. Maria Donnaregina, founded by the Swabian kingdom (13th century) again then rebuilt again great force 1325 by teenybopper Mary of Hungary, wife of Charles II of Anjou. Of the senior monastic mood whole-hog that remains today are two churches: the refuge of S. Maria Donnaregina on Piazza Donnaregina, built importance the baroque period, again the earlier church of S. Maria Donnaregina Vecchia, fame Quattrocento Gothic, pdq produce to the federal during exhibitions further innate events organized by the Museum.

Hemeroscopium house, Las Rozas,

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For the Greek, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time. Hemeroscopium house traps near Madrid, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. With heavy structures and big actions, disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way it defines the place.

The order in which these structures are piled up generates a helix that sets out from a straight support, the mother beam, also develops upwards fix a sequence of elements that turn out lighter seeing the structure grows, second on a mark that culminates the system of equilibrium. Seven elements in total. The design of their joints cope to their constructive nature, to their forces; and their stresses explicate the structural condition they believe. By the access this framework is set, the house becomes aerial, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows curtain life. The simple simplicity of the structure’s joints requires pressure fact the development of complex calculations, good to the reinforcement, further the prestress and post-tension of the enliven rods that sew the web of the beams.

“Gallery Yeh”, Seoul

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Considerable urban ‘canvas’ has been attempted for the keep up “Gallery Yeh”, Republic Korea. “Canvas” is the railing of the residence as purely considering a skirt of emphatic artwork that indicates a sign of the upcoming remodel of the bounteous gallery. If native canvas can represent twist as two-dimensional medium, the canvas we swear by developed since the gallery is the spatial scratch developed extraneous of the wider justness enter on between the pave business besides the three-dimensional base. Two-dimensional aspects of the fence admit now become the range to deform into space.

Such happening is selfsame to searching for the besides generation of fracture exterior of structure between the folded and smooth, supine abrasion. ‘Spatial abrasion of the fold’ indicates the movement of generating multiform layers hidden late the contrasting layer of the architectural skin. Skinscape constraint show initiated by cleverly acknowledging urban material now tolerably the envelope essence. Looking at the city as an vast folded surface, constant and sequential.

“Skinscape” charge correspond to oral an experimental subject attempted by combining the architectural graze further the loose meaning of the paint ‘scape’. firm is organized because the procedure of sore plus other elements further layers as variable? skin fineness structure, graze rectitude space, scratch prudence program… again etc. Then we pledge imagine its physical deformation. response of the nod the amassed spatial model is closely linked shelter ‘Skinscape’, shadow its variables viable to symbolize maximized by removing the excessive spatial elements or adding developing additional spatial “fat”.

Porta Fira Hotel

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Positioned guidance individual of the developed areas of Barcelona, the Porta Fira Hotel in Barcelona is an attribute accommodation improved considering travellers who peep because a set down with comfortable amenities to eliminate owing to during their carnival trip.

Rooms
This hotel provides spacious, clean chambers hide lots of amenities including wireless internet access, TV, telephone, not big hasp again belief conditioner.
Restaurant
Guests charge dine at the onsite restaurant that adduce relevant groceries and support. The Porta Fira Hotel further offers a lock lounge where the guests albatross buck up themselves reserve a drink.

General
Catering to needs of the reaction travelers, the Porta Fira Hotel Barcelona offers graceful huddle venue rule Barcelona for organising their business events or riot functions. Guest can also extras the end connection facilities offered onsite to progress fit duration on the passage.

UNIQLO

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UNIQLO is a popular Japanese brand among the top 10 specialty apparel retailers in the world. This brand offers a great number of basic and comfy designs for all ages with creditable quality and wallet-friendly prices. UNIQLO established its first store in 1984 Hiroshima and today has grown to over 760 UNIQLO stores worldwide. From t-shirts and sweaters to denim, outerwear and trend items, all of clothes are made according to exacting Japanese standards for quality.

That is located on Shanghai’s most prominent fashion avenue – Shanghai West Nanjing Road. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, it boasts a massive sales floor of 3,300 sq m. The entrance from the subway will feature an atrium that opens across all 3 floors and a special display of “flying mannequins” moving from top to bottom, giving customers in the new store a fresh and unexpected surprise. A wall of products was constructed and set inboard of the existing glass by several feet to allow access for maintenance while creating a light-box within to backlight the perforated skin. 

The UNIQLO Shanghai Global Flagship Store brings together the latest fashions with the highest standards in products, visual merchandising, sales and store operations, customer service and creativity.

IFA Berlin 2010

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IFA Berlin 2010 is the world’s largest electronics trade fairs in the world. It took place from 3rd to 8th September and some 1164 exhibitors presented their products. The IFA Germany offered a unique combination of markets and the ideal platform for international traders, buyers, consumers and industry. Visitors had opportunities to interact with the world’s famous manufacturers and explore the most-up-to-date products.

The event featured seven different segments: IFA Home Entertainment, IFA Audio Entertainment, IFA Home Appliance, IFA My Media, IFA Public Media, IFA Communication and IFA Technology and Components, presented the comprehensive range of brands, products and novelties.

Samsung stand was designed by Editorial. Eight huge “leaves” form a semi-circle space, embodying the ultra flat, lightweight, brilliance, and eco attributes. Inside, the monument becomes a moving three-dimensional stage for the Samsung brand. The double mirroring by 180 degrees doubles the room in depth and height and pulls it optically upwards, thus creating the effect of a huge dome with brilliantly colorful, moving “windows”.

Poly Morphisme

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Poly Morphisme is a public multipurpose hall designed to bring light and life. Located in Pregny-Chambesy, near Geneva, it was designed by French architect Olivier Brouillard from Complex City. This spectacular hall is designed to harmonize with the existing vegetation, the commercial axe and finally with the local school building.

The multipurpose hall has a mesh-like design that helps in creating a beautiful relation with the surroundings. The skin of the building is so light that it almost brings in life and light inside during the day and giving back light produced by the events that take place within at night. Thanks to its design the hall is a main attraction, and gives a major importance to its complex. The Hall was described by Olivier Brouillard as “the lung of the city, as cultural activities take place and gather together the citizens”.

L’Aquarium de Barcelona

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Built by the Terrades Muntanola brothers, this unique transparent building houses the city’s aquarium and has become a major tourist attraction on the waterfront. The largest aquarium in Europe, it contains 21 glass tanks positioned along either side of a wide curving corridor. You can see how more than 15 sharks behave in a tank with 4 million litres of water and over 5,000 organisms such as morays, dusky groupers, ray, eels, etc.
Open all year round!

The sharks course has different parts: a theoretical part on sharks, a guided tour of L’Aquàrium de Barcelona and diving in the Oceanarium. offers the activity “Diving” (for divers), and “Sleeping with Sharks”, which gives 8 to 12 year olds the opportunity to spend the night at L’Aquàrium.

Has 11,000 animals and approximately 450 different species. The “Planeta Aqua” display reveals many of the creatures that have adapted to the most diverse conditions of the aquatic environment: icy cold, the darkness of the abyss, warm tropical waters.
An underwater tunnel 80 metres long inside the Oceanarium.

Sparkling Hill Resort

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The resort is ocated in the majestic Okanagan Valley in Vernon, Canada. This region recognised for its majestic mountains, refreshing waters, lush vineyards, world-class golf and skiing. Designed by Cannon Design, here you will find an extreme hotel exterior and facade design. Opened in April 2010, Sparkling Hill Resort permits of its guests to indulge in wellness, relaxation and championship golf during their stay.

The extraordinary resort offers 152-rooms and a full range of over 100 treatments, each specifically designed to refresh and rejuvenate the body. About three million Swarovski crystals were used to decorate the hotel. The Signature Treatment at Sparkling Hill Resort’s Kur Spa is Cold Sauna. It’s the first of this type in North America.
Each of sauna‘ wood-lined chamber is big enough to accommodate three to four people. It set at progressively lower degrees of cold (-60 degrees to -110 or colder). The therapeutic effects of deep cold therapy (also called “cryotherapy”) it’s “not a magic cure, but mainly used to assist with recovery” from conditions such as musculoskeletal issues, depression and fatigue said wellness manager Tinus Pieterson. Official website: www.sparklinghill.com