The Wyndham Grand Chelsea Harbour is perfectly positioned to offer the very best in London activities and events, none more so than the Chelsea Flower Show 2013.

Want THE perfect base for the Chelsea Flower Show 2013? If you are asking where can I stay during the Chelsea Flower Show 2013, the answer is obvious…

The Wyndham Grand is situated a mere walk to the show and would make for an ideal choice for any attending the flower show and looking for somewhere to stay.

The Chelsea Flower Show2013 runs from  21-25 May and promises to live up to its yearly high standards.

This year, one flower may even come with its own security team!

Britain’s rarest orchid, The Lady’s Slipper orchid, will go on display under heavy security at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next week. The Lady’s Slipper orchid was brought back from the brink of extinction by scientists at Kew Gardens.

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Elvis Costello is irrefutably one of the UK’s leading singer/songwriters. Back in the seventies he had hit after hit with songs such as, ‘Oliver’s Army,’ ‘Watching the Detectives’ and ‘Pump It Up.’ Costello’s rendition of the Charles Aznavour song ‘She,’ was a mind-blowing side step from the pure pop sensibilities that his fans were accustomed to at that time, and didn’t he sing it well!

This highly respected and truly established artist is coming to London this June when his much acclaimed Revolver Tour hits Britain. Elvis Costello and the Impostors play the perfect Royal Albert Hall, London.

The Vaudevillian Revolving Wheel of Song

In 2012 Elvis Costello and the Impostors toured to great acclaim. The reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Audience members were invited to spin a wheel in order to dictate the next song that Elvis and his band were going to play.

Obviously this took away the responsibility from Elvis Costello and the Impostors to work out a set list in the dressing room. What a great simple idea! Let the hand of fate and the audience decide what the order of songs would be!

You can imagine Elvis and the Impostors tentatively hoping that there wouldn’t be too many slow songs grouped together.

The great Vaudevillian contraption rotated and Elvis awaited his fate amiably with a twinkle in his eye because this great musician need not worry about which song is thrown up by the wheel as we can rest assure that this great artist has mastered his songs immaculately by now!

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Covent Garden – Upmarket and affluent with a tumultuous history. Fringing on London’s west-end, Covent Garden is known throughout world as being one of the capital’s most upmarket areas.

Covent Garden is divided into a north and south area by the central thoroughfare known as “Long Acre.” Whilst the north contains mostly shops, the southern part has the central square and several important buildings, such as the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane and the London Transport Museum.

In 1200 AD Covent Garden was walled off and was used by Westminster Abbey as an orchard and vegetable plot. It was known at the time as the “Garden of the Abbey and Convent.”

Whilst Covent Garden may be synonymous with glamour and affluence, the area boasts quite a history. In the sixteenth century King Henry VIII seized the area and granted it to the Earls’ of Bedford. The fourth Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fancy houses to attract wealthy tenants.

Inigo Jones was a well travelled architect and most of his ideas came from Italy where he had spent time. Alas within 100 years the Earl’s plans to create a ‘well to do’ area backfired miserably as the area fell in to disrepute. Brothels and drinking houses opened up and by the time the 17^th century was over Covent Garden had become a well-known red light district.

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Sultry and sexy – there are ten days of striptease heading London’s way this May. Leading striptease artists will perform with titillating aplomb and show the world how much fun taking your clothes off can be! Yes indeed, there is much more than simply “getting them off,” with these skilful and provocative artists.

Founded by internationally proclaimed neo-Burlesque pioneer and producer, Mr Chaz Royal, the London Burlesque festival is a showcase for some of the world’s finest performers who have now ensured London’s status as the holder of the world’s most prestigious burlesque event.

Being held from May 10 until May 19, 2013, the artists on display at the London Burlesque Festival will push the boundaries of their art to the limit! Strip-tease takes on erotic, exotic and more dangerous levels.

Chaz Royal will make sure that the ten day London Burlesque Festival 2013 will be more risqué than ever before seen on the stage.

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It is fair to say that Trooping the Colour is a spectacle that is much in demand in London with swaths of camera-clicking tourists lapping up this vibrant ceremony. Trooping the Colour takes place once a year on the Queen’s official birthday in June, on the Horse Guards’ Parade.

The ceremony is all military pomp and splendour, as the Queen checks over the troops of the household cavalry division. Interestingly, Queen Elizabeth II was actually born on 21 April and for some reason known only to the powers of the monarchy, the Queen also has an “official” birthday, which is celebrated on a Saturday in June. This year that Saturday will be the 15^th.

1400 soldiers take part in this colourful military pageant, alongside 200 horses. There are over 400 musicians from ten different bands and drum corps. The parade route extends from Buckingham Palace down the Mall to Horse Guards’ Parade, Whitehall and back again.

Since 1987 the Queen has attended the ceremony by carriage, although prior to this  she used to always arrive at this highly anticipated event riding a horse side-saddle. In fact the Queen has made a total of 36 appearances on horseback for the Trooping of the Colour.

Precisely as the clock on the horse guards’ building strikes eleven, the royal procession arrives and the Queen does the royal salute. The colours being “trooped” are rotated between different regiments and it is considered to be a special honour to belong to the regiment whose turn it is to have their colour’s trooped.

The Queen wears the uniform of the chosen regiment, which all adds to the colour and charm of this old tradition.

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