British Airways has announced that it will resume flights from Riyadh and Jeddah to London Heathrow from March 29, 2009. The airline will fly five times a week from Riyadh and Jeddah to Heathrow Terminal 5. The airline had suspended services to Riyadh and Jeddah in March 2005 due to poor commercial performance on the route.
Hulhumale is an artificial island located in the south of North Male Atoll. The island was restored to create more room to meet the existing and future housing, industrial and commercial development needs of the Male region. The official settlement was inaugurated by President Gayoom on May 12, 2004 and the development and management of the island is being undertaken by a Government owned corporat...
The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art opened in 2004 in a former customs warehouse near the cruise ship docks. It displays works from the 1960s to the present, mostly from Turkish artists. That might sound like something that would only appeal to a small niche, but the collection is quite engaging. The upper floor houses the permanent collection, as well as a gift shop and restaurant...
Tourists who are interested in architecture should make it a point to visit the Gammeldok at least once during their stay at Copenhagen. Located at Strandgade 27B in Christianshavn, the Gammeldok is a forum where architects and other interest groups can gather and appreciate contemporary as well as historic architecture. It holds daily exhibitions from 10 am to 5 pm. Address: Strandgade 27B...
“The most beautiful avenue of the world” runs for 2km through Paris’ 8th arrondissement from the Place de la Concorde to the Place Charles de Gaulle and the Arc de Triomphe. Champs Elysees is French for Elysian Fields, the final resting place of the virtuous in Classical mythology. It was an important landscaped thoroughfare dating back the seventeenth century. In...