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Kew Gardens, is a World Heritage Site located in 121 hectares of stunning vistas with six magnificent glasshouses set in a beautiful landscape beside the River Thames between Richmond and KEW in south-west London. Kew Gardens represents more than 250 years of historical gardens. It is home to a remarkable collection of over 30,000 types of plants from all over the world that range from the decorative to the peculiar. Kew Gardens provide opportunities for public enjoyment and enrichment and the behind-the-scenes scientific work helps ensure a sustainable future for plants and people. In the summer of 2004, Kew's determination to make serious botany great fun for children was demonstrated with the opening of 'Climbers and Creepers'. Bringing a new use to an old cycad house by White Peaks, Climbers and Creepers engages children from around 3-9 years in the pleasures of learning more about plants and their relationships with animals and people. Apart from the sheer beauty and tranquillity of the garden's landscapes Kew offers a wonderful day out for all, whether horticulturally, historically or botanically inclined. Botanical Highlights The dates below are approximate, and flowering can vary by three to four weeks, depending on the weather. Spring: Mid-February - early March: A million-and-a-half crocuses below the Temple of Bellona between Victoria Gate and King William's Temple - one of Kew's most spectacular displays (typically late Feb - early March). Camellias between Victoria Gate and the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art. Spring bedding and spring flowers in the open woodland around the Azalea Garden. Daffodils, forsythia and cherry blossom.  Orchids, bromeliads and anthuriums in Kew’s Tropical Extravaganza, an annual display of exotic blooms in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. April - May: Lilacs near Kew Palace and White Peaks. Spring bedding in front of the Palm House. Scillas in the Woodland Garden.  Flowering cherries, crab apples, magnolias and tulips throughout the gardens. May - June: Bluebells in the Queen's Cottage Grounds. Lilacs, azaleas, rhododendrons and magnolias, Brentford Gate area. The tiny but beautiful alpine flowers in the Davies Alpine House and the Rock Garden. Himalayan blue poppies and rhododendrons in the Woodland Garden. Native plants in long grass areas. Horse chestnut blossom. Summer: June - July: Summer flowers in the walled Duke's Garden and in the Woodland Garden. Giant water lilies growing rapidly in the Princess of Wales Conservatory and the Waterlily House. The Mediterranean Garden near King William's Temple. The Rose Pergola, the Rose Garden and the Order Beds. The Rock Garden. Tulip trees, opposite the Palm House, Philadelphus near the Pagoda. July - September: Themed summer bedding in front of the Palm House. The Order Beds. Giant water lilies flowering in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. Water lilies flowering in the Aquatic Garden and Waterlily House. The herbasceous borders of the Duke's Garden, fascinating medincinal herbs in the Queen's Garden, Grass Garden, Rose Garden. Hibiscus, hydrangeas and Indian bean trees. Autumn: September - October: Autumn crocus in September in the Woodland Glade - Kew's first burst of autumn colour. Belladonna lilies. Trees in autumn colour. October - November: Last of the autumn colours. Grass Garden. Autumn-flowering crocuses, colchicums and hardy cyclamen. Strawberry trees west of King William's Temple and between the Princess of Wales Conservatory and Rock Garden. Winter: November - December: Fruiting trees and shrubs, winter bark. Winter-flowering cherry. January - February: Snowdrops in the Rock Garden and Conservation Area, crocuses along the Princess Walk. Witch hazels by King William's Temple. Cornelian cherry in the winter border in the Duke's Garden. Duchess border along wall outside the Duke's Garden. Camellias between Victoria Gate and the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art. Clematis cirrhosa on the Rock Garden Wall. Rhododendrons in the Rhododendron Dell and, if the winter is mild, the carmine blooms of Magnolia campbellii might appear early. Shrubs in the Winter Border near the Ice House. The Davies Alpine House. Heathers, hellebores, viburnums and cornelian cherry.

Enjoy a package including the Fashion Freak Show and your entrance at FlyView Paris to fly over Paris in virtual reality! Fashion Freak Show Your seating during the show will correspond to Category 3 10.00 € savings on shows from Tuesday to Thursday Ladies and Gentlemen, please leave the routine, gloom and boredom in the dressing room: the crazy world of Jean-Paul Gaultier takes hold of the mythical scene of Folies Bergère! After Josephine Baker, Charlie Chaplin and Zizi Jeanmaire, it is the most famous French couturiers to make dance and dream the audience of the Folies! The plan of the room with the seating category is available. For his show, Jean Paul Gaultier unravels the codes of the magazine and installs you at the forefront to rediscover fifty years of pop culture, through his unique and eccentric eye. From her provocative beginnings to his biggest fashion shows, from crazy parties at the Palace to sulphurous London nights, the awful child of fashion shows you everything you've ever seen! With rare and spectacular creatures and artists on stage, as only Jean Paul Gaultier knows how to reveal them. Le Freak c'est chic! Come and spend an evening with the crazy, passionate, badly bred, botoxes, well-behaved, cheeky, fooled, olé-olé ... And for the occasion, dozens of new exclusive creations come alongside the cult pieces from his repertoire, from the famous marinière to Madonna's iconic conical corset. If you have not cold feet, Jean Paul Gaultier invites you to his show the most crazy, the most freaky, the sexiest, the most VIP: the FASHION FREAK SHOW! FlyView Paris When in Paris, why not come and discover a brilliant new concept that FlyView is and fly over Paris in Virtual reality?  Can you imangine that your dreams came true and that you could fly over the beautiful city of Paris and experience it from a birds eye view? Enter the incredible world of FlyView, a very unique experience in which you will be able to fly over Paris and its monuments in virtual reality with real flight sensations! Take off with your jetpack and look down on the city of loves' most beautiful monuments with a 360° panoramic view. Your adventure will commence with an immersive 15 minute movie experience that is filmed with real-life images which guides you through the most incredible locations of the city. Fly past the Eiffel Tower, over the River Seine and discover the Champs Elysées, Arc de Triomphe and go past many other world famous attractions. With virtual reality headsets and a dynamic platform you will enjoy a thrillingly realistic feeling of actually flying through the air. Enjoy the spectacular views of Paris at sunrise for an exciting and dramatic experience you will not soon forget!!  Once you arrive at the FlyView boarding terminal and you have checked in for your flight, a hostess will lead you and your group to the departure lounge to give you your flight instructions. You will the proceed to the takeoff hall where you will get comfortable in your jetpack, put on your virtual reality headset to take off over the rooftops of Paris. This is a very unique and fun-filled activity to enjoy with your family and friends!  Important information: Simply select a visit date and go to FlyView a whichever time you wish.  Please note that all visitors must be at least 1.20m (4ft) tall to be able to participate.  Please ensure that you arrive at least 15 minutes before the takeoff.  Do not forget to print out your voucher and present it at the payment desk to colletc your admission ticket. 

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The adventure starts in the LEGO Factory. Here you can produce your very own LEGO® brick and you get to keep it as a souvenir. Hear all about the production of the famous coloured bricks and assist Professor Brick-a-Brack. - At the MINILAND you will be able to see the Ruhr area in small format 1:45. - In KINGDOM QUEST LASER RIDE you take over the role of the royal armies and rescue the princess. Collect as many points as you can, like this evil trolls and skeletons will have no chance. - At the LEGO Friends you will feel like a part of the Heartlake City Clique and you can build, bake, sing and play. - Become a pirate in  the unique and new game area Pirate Island.  - Become a sorcerer’s apprentice and experience in Merlin´s Apprentice how to raise a gondola in a magic way. - At the 4-D cinema you go with the LEGO Heroes on a journey through a different world. Many breath-taking surprises and fascinating special effects are waiting for you – 3D is from yesterday.

Shearwater is a classic Newport-style schooner yacht, only recently recognized as a national landmark in 2009.  The vessel was built by Rice Brother Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine, back in a time when yachting was a rare combination of elegance and adventure; Rice Bros. were well known for building luxury pleasure yachts and produced some 4,000 hulls over a period of 64 years. The keel was laid down on January 4, 1929 and a news clip from the Boothbay Register reflects alongside a photograph "Tyler Hodgon at the old Tide Mill is getting out timbers for the schooner to be built at Rice’s. Vessel to be built of native white oak." Traditionally built from hand-hewn native white oak, she was the last boat to be constructed at that yard - likely due to the ensuing Great Depression brought on by the Stock Market Crash that occurred later that autumn.  East Boothbay was a small coastal town with shipbuilding being its only industry. About 40 workmen were employed for the construction of SHEARWATER. Her designer Theodore Donald Wells was born in Hudson Falls, N Y on October 22, 1875. He was a naval architect and marine engineer, a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and also the Institute of Naval Architects London. His education included post-graduate work at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He began his career as a member of the firm Herreshoff and Wells, N. Y. City in 1902. Working with Herreshoff no doubt had an influence on his designs, which bear similarities to many of the famous Herreshoff designed yachts of that time. From 1903 to 1907 he worked for Wintringham and Wells and then began practicing his profession under his own name. Mr. Wells joined the Navy Department in March 1917 and became Superintending Constructor of the Baltimore District U. S. N. Notable yachts designed and constructed under his supervision are "Viking" a 272 foot steel motor yacht built for George F. Baker in 1929 by Newport News and "Karina" a three masted schooner built for Robert E. Tod in 1932 by Staten Island Shipbuilding. Mr. Tod was a well-known offshore yachtsman as was his former yacht ‘Thistle", which competed in the Emperors Cup ocean race. SHEARWATER was launched on May 4, 1929 and photographs in the Boothbay Register reflect her graceful and elegant lines. Her first Captain, Leon Esterbrook of Edgarton, MA, arrived to take charge of the fitting out. Her owner Charles E Dunlap was a member of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY and this became SHEARWATER’s first homeport after her completion in late September 1929. It was there in Oyster Bay that she first started to thrill those who sailed in luxury aboard her and those who were privileged to crew her on race day. Since her launching and documentation in Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts in 1929, she has had a colorful history and has been carefully maintained and restored to standards that few contemporary vessels are able to match and is truly a piece of American Maritime History. On November 7, 1942 SHEARWATER was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and became a member of The United States Coast Guard’s Coastal Picket Patrol during World War Two. She was painted gray and bore the numbers CG67004. Based at Little Creek, Virginia she patrolled the waters east of the Chesapeake Bay entrance and south towards Cape Hatteras. Her skipper during that period reflected on how they used their free time while out on submarine patrol to race against other yachts and in his own words "sailed in tandem with the schooner Lord Jim, racing in and out of port, up and down the east coast and winning." She was designed and built as a gaff rigged schooner but during this period was changed to a Marconi rig. She carries over 2,550 square feet while under full sail. A true veteran world cruiser, she first transited the Panama Canal in July 1946 and in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s completed a two and a half-year global circumnavigation. In December 1971 Mrs. John B. Thayer of Rosemont, wife of a former trustee and treasurer, donated SHEARWATER to the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Environmental Medicine. She was used by the university as a laboratory for research on physiological responses to the stresses of living and working underwater. Captained by James Shearson, she was fitted with compressors, generators, monitoring instruments and a small decompression chamber. She has participated in many Ancient Mariner and Classic yacht races in U S waters as well as racing in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand while on her circumnavigation in the early 1980’s. It is rumored she was once dismasted in the famous Newport to Bermuda race. She was last raced by the current owners in San Diego in May 1995 in the American Schooner Cup and finished second overall. She entered the yacht charter industry in 1966 whilst on the West Coast sailing to the Channel Islands and was again used to generate income to keep her shipshape while owned by the University of Pennsylvania. During the chartering industry’s infancy in the Caribbean, SHEARWATER was known as the " Queen of the Fleet". Today she continues this tradition offering the most unique sailing experience and has passed rigid Coast Guard inspections and can carry up to 49 passengers. We welcome you to join us for an excellent opportunity to experience the ambiance of a vintage sailing vessel while delighting in the splendors of The Manhattan sky-line, the Statue of Liberty or the beauty of the oceans beyond.