Posts Tagged ‘ Leipzig ’

Adrian celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first Buster Keaton film as well as record breaking passenger numbers at Heathrow, Cornwall Airport Newquay and Keflavik in Iceland

Adrian sums up some of the news from the World Travel Market that was held in London this week.

No beer or sausages on Friday as the Germans try to persuade Adrian and others to write about Germany. What is the world coming to?

This week my column comes from Sydney in Australia as I shall be here for the next few weeks preparing some stories and visiting relations. Expect then, a biased towards Australian stories for a while! Let’s start with culture because the tourist authority for NSW, Destination NSW, says cultural tourism is on the rise with the state attracting almost 6.5 million overnight cultural visitors in the year ending March 2015, a significant 5.6% increase on the previous year. During the year ending March 2015, NSW
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Adrian remebers the entreprenrial Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, records the saving of the Wedgwood Collection for our countries, and looks at how successful some places have been in enticing us to visit them.

One of the first anniversaries of the year will be celebrated by the German city of Leipzig, the city where the composer Mendelssohn was born in 1814 on the 3rd of February.

It’s just a week before the 9th of October celebrations in Leipzig marking the anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution. This year’s festival will be dedicated to the part played by the former Czechoslovakia in the Peaceful Revolution,