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Journalists, travel writers and photographers… here’s an exhibition especially for you.

Beat the crowds to brand new Lee Valley Olympic 2012 venue.

Alexandra Palace
North East London
Saturday 15th January, 10.30am – 4.00pm

All kinds of attractions: destinations, museums, castles, stately homes, gardens, theatres, river cruises, hotels, tour operators will be available for consultation under one roof on 15th January.

Alternatively, confirm your postal address and Excursions™ will send you a registration card.

Ironbridge Gorge Museums' Science, Sport, Life Festival

There will be a press office in the Panorama Room to the side of the main hall, where you are invited for light refreshments.

Excursions™ is a major travel event organised by Tourism South East and Group Travel Organiser magazine supported by Visit London and East of England Tourism.

With around 220 exhibitors all UK tourism sectors will be well represented plus some from Europe.

Everyone who pre-registers and comes along to Excursions™ 2011 will be entered automatically into a free prize draw to win one of the many exciting prizes offered by exhibitors.

Here are some examples of what’s new for 2011 at Excursions™:

Henry Moore sculpture at Hatfield House

Hatfield House
This celebrates its 400th anniversary with a major exhibition of outdoor sculpture by the British artist Henry Moore (1898 – 1986) from 23 April – 30 September 2011.

Ironbridge Gorge Museums
A new science, sport, life festival will form part of the West Midlands’ Cultural Olympiad in the run-up to 2012. It runs from April 2011 to July 2012.

Isle of Wight Steam Railway
A year of celebration in 2011 to mark its opening in 1971. There will be a special programme of 40th anniversary events and two Gala Weekends.

Lee Valley Regional Park, Hertfordshire
This is the only brand new Olympic 2012 venue (canoeing and kayaking events) that opens to the public before the 2012 Games. Try rafting the rapids before the Olympians.

Maritime Greenwich
New developments here include the Sammy Ofer wing at the National Maritime Museum, the opening of Greenwich Pier – with new restaurants and an open plaza – and the re-opening of the Cutty Sark in autumn; plus three new hotels.

The Royal Collection – 12 February 2011 to 22 January 2012
Stunning new displays at Buckingham Palace, Holyrood House and Windsor Castle include one for HRH, The Duke of Edinburgh. This is an exhibition will celebrate his 90th birthday at the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle.

For further details, please call Pat Edgar at PR Matters on 01494 764932, email PRMatters@dsl.pipex.com, or visit the website: www.excursions.org.uk

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Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts
Exhibiting until 12 June, 2011

Here’s your chance to follow in the footsteps of parasol-touting, well-to-do travellers around The Lake District two centuries ago.

A new exhibition in Grasmere highlights ‘Picturesque Tourism’, an escape from mundane life in Britain whilst the Napoleonic Wars raged.

This blip in the fortunes of polite society meant they had to find amusements other than their customary Grand Tour of the Continent.

They endured lengthy journeys. with boulders strewn in their path, and the ever-likely possibility of an overturned carriage, just to reach their destination.

The exhibitions fuse together art and literature from the period 1750-1820 with works by artists, writers, satirists, poets and guidebook writers, all of whom who fed the passionate demand for memoirs of the area.

These creative brains of yore recognised a market for what might now be regarded as the ‘full colour, prestige coffee table book’, a souvenir painting or the equivalent of a BBC Countryfile feature.

Wordsworth’s own tourist publication Guide to the Lakes has been the impetus behind the exhibition, which this year celebrates its 200th anniversary of publication.

Sherbourne, at Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts, Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, Lake District. Until 12 June 2011.

Sherbourne, in Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts, Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, Lake District. Until 12 June 2011.

Etchings, engravings, paintings, print and prose are all on show, alongside examples of how artists skewed their representations of the area in order to sell their works more easily, satisfy the desires of patrons, create satirical comment on visitors to the early Lakes and convey the essence of the ‘in vogue’ area.

The exhibition highlights the popular growth of engravings, aquatint, mezzotint, bodycolour and watercolours – the latter having previously been viewed as a medium suitable only for ladies.

Constable’s Hellvellyn – his only print of the Lake District – is on show alongside works from Laporte, Chubbard, Sunderland, Nicholson, Farington, Walmsley and Gainsborough.

Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts also boasts watercolours by Girtin, who died in his mid 20s, and of whom Turner remarked: “If Girtin had lived, I should have starved.”

Visitors can view works showing scenes from the Lake District and use them as a launch pad from which to explore the featured places and beauty spots.

Locations that are represented include Windermere, Ullswater, Townend, Rydal Falls, Bowness and Furness Abbey, all just a short drive from Grasmere.

This exhibition runs until June 12, 2011, seven days a week. Details.

For accommodation options in Grasmere or the Lakeland area, click here.

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