Dominating this region is Europe’s most visited city, London. With very little left to be said about it, the capital offers the same captivating mix of history and modernism, high art and pop-culture and spectacular and humdrum that it ever did. You could be here a month, and barely touch the surface. Feeling the ripple effect, the outlying areas are packed places of interest: Windsor, Richmond-upon-Thames, Oxford and St. Albans are all within an hour of London.
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2009 marks the 250th anniversary of Scottish poet Robert Burns' birth. Burns was a poet and a lyricist and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.
The Burns Supper was started a few years after his death by a group of his friends; they held the supper to honour and remember Burns. The tradition caught on and the ritual of Burns Supper is now held all around the world.
His life and work will be celebrated throughout the year at many Burns-related events.
