Sunday, April 24, 2011

London, the great escape from the royal wedding

Who can afford it goes away. The bridge of the Royal Wedding, the longest in the history of the British Empire, began yesterday with the Good Friday, that the Good Friday and ends Tuesday, May 3, because it is Easter Monday, April 25, and Monday, May 2 is a Bank Holiday , another day of celebration like the 29, the date of Royal Wedding.

A Filotto exceptional for these latitudes, where they are not used to attack our cabalistic calculations holidays, weekends and holidays. This strange combination then allows himself to Albion 11 days of vacation with three days off (Tuesday, Wednesday and next Thursday). And since the City more or less stops, even the London office is more or less the same.

Whole caravans of British charter and fitted shorts and flip-flops start looking for their first hot (a favorite in Spain, but also Greece and southern Italy), who has the portfolio a bit 'more bloated goes to the tropics (Florida, Cuba and Barbados, North Africa and SEYCHELLES). Can not find a last minute or even a cottage or a b & b in the country, in Scotland, the Cotswolds and Sussex.

The travel companies also oversubscribed for months, ever since the Royal Family has cleverly placed his marriage between Easter and May Day and has declared the date a national holiday. Bread and circuses always work and there is no subject more happy than that which gives you a free day off.

Those who do not can afford it will settle for a picnic out of town, or at least away from the square of central London, which runs from Kensington and Chelsea to Regent's Park, and Embankments, where it will set up a huge red area cordoned off, impossible to cross if not on foot. For many who are thinking about how impatient to leave London, and many more are thrilled that lead in the British capital attracted media event of the century.

There is talk of a few million. The hotels have doubled their rates, is not a room in the whole of London and surrounding area, specialized agencies put notes in the letter boxes of the indigenous residents to find out if they intend to rent a room for 200 pounds per night. The tale of the prince who married a descendant of a family of miners and materials that are selling well.

Lady Diana's shadow is long and very present. And in fact the son of the "people's princess", so beloved by English subjects and pop icon of all the wives sad, misunderstood and eating disorders, announced that the ceremony will be streamed on Youtube. For a week there and tabloid newspaper that publishes the popular photo shoots, full lists of invited guests, VIPs and players, royalty, gossip, betting on the bride's dress, lists of shops cult of royal accessories, flowers, perfumes, shoes and copies of the unlikely wedding hats, adorned with feathers and tulle creations.

Regent Street is already decorated with dozens of Pavia with the British flag and the whole area will be fenced and royal decorated like a candy. In front of Buckingham Palace will be built in the stands to allow the TV around the world to send live the kiss more media coverage of the story (when the bride and groom on the balcony overlooking the crowd applauded.) On the boards of all the restaurants, from fast food to the most exclusive tourist, appeared the Royal Wedding Special Menu and in subway stations appear unusual signs saying "Keep Cool, where tourists are encouraged to drink plenty of water for dehydration.

Even the cheapest supermarket rained matched marriage, odd and quirky, like lamb royal edition of Schweppes tonic or water Royal Wedding Special Edition, which obviously will make the real gin and tonic. The security measures are "impressive" as they say in these cases to protect a ceremony at the highest risk of terrorist attacks (the war in Libya does not help) and anti-government protests (Charles and Camilla have already experienced the anger of students and the unemployed).

And if the cost of the wedding will be paid by the Windsor and also from Middleton who have explicitly requested to contribute with a check with six zeros, the security costs will be borne on the pockets of taxpayers and this is not a secondary cause for controversy. But in the end the wedding will also produce a flood of money to the pockets of the crown (something like € 630 million) and merchandising based around the sale of gadgets and paccottaglia kitsch of all kinds.

Between cups, plates and cups, mugs, fans, figurines and all kinds of shirts and flags, key chains, pens, etc., there is a refrigerator "William & Kate" with the giant pigeons, and even shops that draw the pictures on the engagement hands or nails. Hard to say which of the terrible souvenir win the real prize of bad taste, but the condom Crown Jewls will be hard to beat.

There is great interest by the end of the permanent garrison in front of Westminster Abbey, the historic tents of political activists, pacifists, animal rights and much that is parked in front of Westminster sull'aiuola years. As the colorful gang does not impede traffic and does not disturb public order, it is impossible for the police to dislodge occur without the inner world that defends free speech.

If between now and seven days have not decided what to do, they will be the only ones not having to elbowing to get a front row seat in front of the royal procession. , April 23, 2011

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