283 London Celebrates 2012; Orthodox Easter

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🗓️ 14 April 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Tour guides from London join Rick to point how you can join the crowds, or avoid them, for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Summer Olympics, and lots of other special events. Also, we learn the special ways Greeks and Bulgarians observe Orthodox Easter, their biggest holiday of the year.

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0:00.0	This is a huge deal for celebrations in London.
0:04.6	This is a huge deal for the United Kingdom because only one monarch in history has ever had a diamond
0:11.7	jubilee before.
0:13.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:14.0	Coming up, London tour guides, Tom Hooper and Julian Chadwick,
0:18.0	Clue us in on the excitement visitors to London
0:20.0	can find this year during the Queen's Jubilee.
0:22.0	Plus, big anniversaries for Dickon. and can find this year during the Queen's Jubilee.
0:23.0	Plus big anniversaries for Dickens, the Titanic, the Rolling Stones, and the Summer Olympics.
0:28.0	I failed to get tickets, so I shall be crying miserably.
0:32.0	Well, I've actually got tickets.
0:34.0	I'm one of the lucky ones, yeah.
0:36.0	And friends from Greece and Bulgaria tell us about their many traditions for observing
0:39.6	Orthodox Easter this weekend, like sending a flame from Jerusalem to Athens each year as a
0:44.4	symbol of the holiday. That light brings health and luck and prosperity to your
0:50.4	house also in the yard of the church we have red eggs. Celebrate the world with
0:55.2	us, it's Travel with Rick Steves.
0:57.0	Do you like a good party?
1:02.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steves. Today on travel with Rick
1:04.4	Steve's we're getting ready to join in the celebrations for some big
1:07.5	events both in Britain and among Eastern Orthodox communities all over the
1:12.3	world.
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