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The new British Embassy in Budapest has been officially inaugurated. Sir Alan Duncan, the UK Minister for Europe, and the Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó together unveiled a plaque on the building marking the occassion, the Budapest Business Journal reported.
The British Embassy in Budapest relocated in April after purchasing its new home – previously the Dutch Embassy – in District II. The building has been completely renovated to provide the British Embassy and its staff a modern and fit for purpose working environment, according to a press release sent to Budapest Business Journal.
“While the UK’s relationship with Europe is changing, we are not turning our back on the European Union, and we are certainly not turning our back on Hungary,” Sir Alan said.
“The British Embassy has moved from a building we leased to one we have renovated and own. This is a visible demonstration that we are strengthening our roots here. Not only that, we are also increasing our embassy staff by around 20% – a significant uplift in resource and capability, which will better enable us to continue driving the relationship forward and seize new opportunities together.”
Following the opening ceremony, the British minister gave a speech at Corvinus University on the strengthening bilateral relationship between the United Kingdom and Hungary.
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– Det er en meningsløs uttalelse. En utopi. Det er ikke aktuelt å tvinge nyttetransport som traktorer over på lastebilplan, sier Dale til avisa Nationen.
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New Zealands nyvalgte statsminister lover en folkeavstemning om cannabis i løpet av de neste tre årene, skriver NRK.no
Sosialdemokraten Jacinda Ardern (37), som blir landets yngste statsminister gjennom tidene, sier hun alltid har vært åpen for at folk ikke skal fengsles for personlig bruk av cannabis, melder nyhetsbyrået AP.
Det konservative National Party,som har styrt siden 2008, ble største parti etter valget nylig, men mangler rent flertall. Det høyrepopulistiske partiet New Zealand First kom på vippen, og valgte etter regjeringssamtaler med både regjeringspartiet og sosialdemokratene å støtte New Zealand Labour Party.
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F.v. HKH Kronprinsesse Mette-Marit, Evald Møller Johansen, HM Dronning Sonja, og HKH Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandra, Foto; Lise Åserud, NTB scanpix / Det Kgl.Hoff – www.kongehuset.no
I dag avduket HKH Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandra to nye skulpturer av og for barn i parken ved Slottet som er oppkalt etter henne, Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandras Skulpturpark, skriver www.kongehuset.no på sine nettsider.
Etter trommevirvel og fanfare avduket Prinsessen først «Ansiktsløs mann», som er støpt i bronse (bildet over). Denne skulpturen er formgitt av Evald Møller Johansen som er elev i 5. klasse ved Lilleby skole i Trondheim.
Skulpturparken er en integrert del av Slottsparken. Alle skulpturene som får plass her er tegnet av barn, og så har håndverkere bygget selve skulpturene.
Skulpturene blir til gjennom tegnekonkurranse blant barn i 5. og 6. klasse i alle landsdeler. De tre nordligste fylkene var først ute. Nå var turen kommet til Trøndelag, Oppland og Hedmark, skriver Slottet på sine hjemmesider.
Kronprinsesse Mette-Marit og Prinsesse beundrer skulpturen “Roggbiff”. Foto: Lise Åserud, NTB scanpix / Det Kgl.Hoff – www.kongehuset.no
Så kom turen til “Roggbif”, som er formgitt av Emilie Forsmo Bratberg og Kaisa Øksdahl i felleskap og utført i pulverlakkert aluminium De to er elever i 6. klasse ved Slåstad skole i Sør-Odal kommune i Hedmark.
Etter avdukingen var de tre formgiverne og deres foresatte invitert inn på Slottet, der det ble servert kakao og noe å bite i.
Prinsesse Ingrid Alexandras Skulpturpark ble etablert i anledning Kongeparets 25-årsjubileum i 2016, og åpnet av Kong Harald. I talen sin den gangen sa Kongen dette om de første skulpturene:
– De er her for dere, de er til å ta på og leke med, og ikke bare til pynt.
I dag kunne Kronprinsesse Mette-Marit konstatere at barna har tatt Kongen på ordet.
– De to første skulpturene som ble avduket var «Geometrisk rev» og «Kanin i trøbbel». Mange barn som besøker Slottsparken har stor glede av disse figurene og bruker dem i leken sin. Det synes vi er veldig hyggelig.
Mange barnehager har lagt turen om disse skulpturene – klatret på kaninen og ridd på reven. Slottet håper de nye skulpturene blir tatt imot på samme vis, heter det videre.
Skulpturparken er en gave fra Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.
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Eventyrlystne turister har snakket varmt om Albania i mange år, og nå satser turoperatøren Apollo skikkelig på landet ved Adriaterhavet, skriver Se og Hør.
Albania var under det kommunstiske regimet nærmest hermetisk lukket for turister fram til 1990.
Dürres er Albanias nest største by, og ligger 33 kilometer fra Tirana.
Dürres byr på vakre strender. Foto: www.albania.al
Sommeren 2018 blir det charterfly fra Oslo til Albanias hovedstad Tirana. Så blir det 45 minutter med buss til bade- og havnebyen Dürres, som byr på vakre strender, lave priser og mange historiske attraksjoner
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Seks nye destinasjoner og 27 nye direkteruter er kommet med på SAS’ sommerprogram for 2018, og allerede i vinter kommer nye ruter innenlands, skriver Nettavisen / NTB.
I midten av desember opprettes det en ny direkterute mellom Bergen-Tromsø, mens Trondheim-Kristiansand får direkterute med to ukentlige avganger fra og med mars neste år. I tillegg økes frekvensen på strekningen Trondheim-København.
Flyselskapet åpner neste sommer 27 nye direkteruter og presenterer samtidig seks nye destinasjoner: Verona, Sarajevo, Genova, Toulon, Örnsköldsvik og Beirut, skriver SAS i en pressemelding.
På lista over nye direkteruter står blant annet Split, Pula, Alicante, Tessaloniki, Praha, Genève, Warszawa og Aarhus.
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Under den årlige Staro Riga Festival of Light pyntes de vakre bygningene i Latvias hovedstad med lys og visuelle kunstverk for å sette fokus på Rigas arkitektur – og blir om mulig enda vakrere enn ellers, skriver Se og Hør.
Festivalen blir arrangert i tidsrommet fredag 17,- søndag 19.november.
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The St Helena Government and SA Airlink (Airlink) have announced that travellers wishing to fly to St Helena, a long awaited dream for the Island and Saints around the world, will be able to do so from 14 October 2017. The sale of tickets commenced early in September, the sthelenatourism.com website reported.
The inaugural flight for Airlink’s scheduled air service to St Helena will take place on Saturday, 14 October. On this occasion the aircraft will overnight on St Helena and will return to Johannesburg via Windhoek, capital of Namibia, on Sunday,.
Jamestown, capital of St.Helena. Photo credit: Paul Tyson / sthelenatourism.com
Thereafter the service will operate on a weekly basis, travelling from Johannesburg to Windhoek to St Helena on a Saturday.
Prices for travel on the Embraer E190-100IGW ETOPS from OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and Cape Town to St Helena, have been quoted as:
A return ticket from St Helena to Cape Town will cost from £846 including taxes in Economy and £1,586 in Business
A return ticket from St Helena to Johannesburg will cost from £804 including taxes in Economy and £1,544 in Business
Passengers will have the choice of both Economy and Business Class on the flights, with 70 seats in Economy and six in Business. For checked or hold baggage, the general free allowance on Airlink flights is 20kg in Economy Class and 30kg in Business Class per adult passenger. In addition to the checked or hold baggage, passengers may carry the following cabin or hand baggage. Each piece should not exceed 8kg: 1 Piece plus 1 slimline laptop bag (Economy Class) / 2 Pieces plus 1 slimline laptop bag (Business Class).
The Embraer E190-100IGW ETOPS proving flight on 21 August carried out numerous test, including multiple take offs and landings at St Helena Airport, which has resulted in Airlink receiving the required approvals from SA authorities to operate this service.
The plane will depart Johannesburg each Saturday morning at 09:00 local time and fly to Windhoek in Namibia where it will refuel and connect with the incoming Airlink service from Cape Town that will have departed at 10:30.
Passengers on-board will then fly on to St Helena landing on the island at 13:15. Total flight time from Johannesburg and Cape Town to St Helena will be just over 6 hours, including the stop at Windhoek. Flight time from Windhoek to St Helena is 3 hours and 45 minutes.
The return flight to South Africa will depart on Saturdays from St Helena at 14:30 and again fly to Windhoek where passengers will be able to connect with an Airlink service to Cape Town, or fly on to Johannesburg. The flight is expected to arrive back in Johannesburg at 22:30 local time with the connecting passengers landing in Cape Town at 23:00.
The monthly flight to Ascension Island will commence on the third weekend in November 2017. Thereafter the flight will take place on the second weekend of every month.
Tickets will be available online via the Airlink website and through all normal IATA global distribution systems. Passengers are advised to contact their IATA travel agent.
For those passengers that are resident on St Helena, ticket bookings can be made via Solomon & Company (St Helena) Plc?s Shipping & Travel Agency at the Malabar in Jamestown. Passengers can visit the Shipping & Travel Agency in person or can contact [email protected] or telephone 22523.
Chris Pickard, St.Helena Director of Tourism said: “With the release of fares, schedules and the start date for flights we have reached the moment of truth where we will learn what the demand is to visit St Helena. There is still a lot of work to be done as St Helena has to compete for business with all the other fantastic destinations around the world, but we are the new kid on the block and I have faith that now we have flights in the system the visitors will come to discover the charms of St Helena.”
Until the commencement of flights, visitors can still travel to St Helena on the last working Royal Mail Ship, the RMS St Helena. There has been no news of any revision to the RMS schedule, which is slated to continue until February 2018.
Les vår store bloggpost om St.Helena her / see also: http://hovedsteder.blogg.no/1463788834_sthelena.html
See also: http://hovedsteder.blogg.no/1497890325_historic_arrival_of_charter_flight_to_sthelena.html
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Selskapet London RIB Voyages arrangerer heftige speedbåtturer på Themsen der garantert får et adrenalinkick mens du er på sightseeing. Turene passer for tøffinger i alle aldre, skriver Se og Hør.
London RIB Voyages arrangerer blant annet “Ultimate London Adventure – License to Thrill”, en tur som varer 50 minutter, og koster fra kr 290 for voksne.
