VisitBritain invites you to celebrate the end of the year and welcome the New Year with many fun filled activities

The season of celebrations is coming! VisitBritain invites you to celebrate the end of the year and welcome the New Year with many fun filled activities VisitBritain, Britain’s National Tourism Board invites you to experience many events during the festive seasons, where else would you want to spend time with your love ones! The annual tree dressing event at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, is a fascinating and unusual celebration for all the family. The day’s finale as darkness falls is a wonderful procession and spiral dance around two magnificent aspen trees, which are dressed with hundreds of lanterns made during the afternoon. The Museum is open from 10.30am on December 5, with the Tree Dressing event starting at 12.30pm. Website: www.wealddown.co.uk Moreover, the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum invites you to enjoying the spirit of Christmas past: Crackling log fires, traditional Christmas entertainment, music, warm drinks and tasty seasonal fare – just some of the treats in store for visitors to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum this festive season. The Museum’s ‘Sussex Christmas’ event runs from 26 December to 1 January 2011, will recreate many evocative aspects of traditional Christmas celebrations. The Museum’s site in the heart of the South Downs National Park near Chichester, West Sussex, is an ideal place to enjoy the warmth and atmosphere of the historic houses, many decorated for Christmas in the style of the period when they were originally built. Website: www.wealddown.co.uk Art aficionados are treated to a kaleidoscope of new art. The group’s seven exhibiting artists will be joined by three guest artists for the group’s tenth annual selling exhibition, to be held at the Guildford Art Gallery during November–December. The Kaleidoscope artists are Terri Smart, Doxa Sivropoulos, Tilu Shah, Barbara Andrews (ceramics), Linda Walsh (embroidery), Iona Mackenzie Laycock (textiles) and Sue Roche (photography). The guest artists are Caroline Jackman (paintings and printmaking), Lisa Pettibone (glass) and Cathy Beckett (jewellery). Visitors will be able to buy their work which will include jewellery, vases, decorations, sculpture and scarves. Guildford House Gallery, 155 High Street, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3AJ Tel: +44 1483 444751 Websites: www.guildford.gov.uk, www.kaleidoscope-art.co.uk Foodies are not to miss this fantastic Contemporary food from the 16th century: British chef Heston Blumenthal’s new restaurant will open at London’s Mandarin Oriental hotel in December. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal will be his first restaurant outside Bray in Berkshire, where he currently runs the Hinds Head and the three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck. The menu will feature simple contemporary dishes inspired by Britain’s historic gastronomic past and recipes dating from the 16th century, such as scallops with cucumber ketchup and peas, bergamot-cured mackerel salad and slow-cooked short rib of beef. Website: www.mandarinoriental.com/london/dining Gulliver at the Palace for Christmas: Blenheim Palace’s Christmas exhibition will highlight the new movie Gulliver’s Travels which features Blenheim as the Palace of Lilliput. The Twentieth Century Fox film is scheduled for release in December and stars Jack Black in a contemporary interpretation of Swift’s classic tale of a giant lost in the miniature land of Lilliput. Other stars include Jason Segel, Billy Connolly, Catherine Tate, Emily Blunt and James Corden. The Palace will be decorated with displays depicting themes from Gulliver’s Travels through Christmas. The Great Hall will feature a travellers theme with model boats and hanging hot air balloons. The dining table in the saloon will be set for a Royal Lilliputian feast as featured in the film, in white and gold, with a place setting for a giant at one end of the banquet table. The land of Lilliput will be brought to life with dolls’ houses and miniatures.Website: www.blenheimpalace.com For more images please contact: Ungkana Boonsawat (Ple) Tel: 02 260 5820 ext. 125 Email: [email protected] สามารถคลิกดูภาพประกอบได้ที่ www.thaipr.net

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