Tag: Australians in the UK

BRON IN THE DON | Covering 350 acres in central London, our resident adventurer discovers #53 in the Timeout London Top 100 — Hyde Park — holds many delights for locals and visitors alike.

AUSSIE TIMES TOUGH MUDDER ATTEMPT | Filled out over the festive season? Well, we have the solution. Aussie Times has signed up for Tough Mudder UK on 4 May and we want you to join us. If an 18km roll around in the mud won’t shift that Heathrow Injection, nothing ...

INTERVIEW | Ahead of her UK tour with Brendan Cole’s Licence to Thrill stage show spectacular, dancing star Melanie Hooper talks to GEORGIA DAWES about growing up in the Australian ballroom dancing world and the rollercoaster ride of Dancing With The Stars.

BRON IN THE DON | With fireworks featuring in the Timeout London Top 100, our resident adventurer made it her mission to see as many as possible in 2012 and crossed #39 — Fireworks, off her list.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | How to make commitments you can keep in 2013

The annual Fanatics Santa Pub Crawl is quickly becoming an institution for Aussie visitors to London, with hundreds of Aussies dressed in Santa costumes let loose on the cities famous pubs and sights.

Here’s our top five Australian Christmas carols for 2012 that sum up the Australian Christmas experience. Which is your favourite? Vote now for your number one Aussie Christmas song.

REVIEW | Sam Simmons's show About the Weather at Soho Theatre is to stand-up what Lady Gaga is to Britney Spears style sanitized pop. The genre’s crazier, unpredictable, more theatrical cousin.

You have no money and you are stuck in London over Christmas. In fact, stuck in the UK opting to make cash during the festive season of Jesus whilst your lovely friends indulge in European Christmas markets.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | The Leveson Report on the conduct of Britain’s media has highlighted the role of ethics and self-regulation for those in positions of power.

Australian actress Natasha Leigh joins the cast of long-running UK soap Holby City. She chats to PAUL BLEAKLEY about adapting the Aussie accent to the medical lingo.

It’s every Australian in London’s dream. To be quoted in the Evening Standard, and be admired and feted by commuters city wide. For ANNA BOW, the fame and glory was almost in reach, until a blonde in skinny jeans stole her limelight.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | One of the key factors in being a successful leader is the ability to connect and build rapport with those around you. When it comes to effective communication, face-to-face will always win out over texts.

INTERVIEW I Ashleigh Lawrence talks to PAUL BLEAKLEY about filming in Bournemouth, honing her craft in LA and how ‘webisodes’ could be the making of young Aussie actors.

The once steady stream of Aussies to London and the UK, seeking culture, challenge and, in later years, money, seems to be on the verge of reversing fortunes. UK Home Office research released last week shows that a distinct trend in UK professionals pursuing opportunities abroad.

It’s every Aussie’s dream. Starting your own business in the UK that guarantees you not only a free-flow of diet-friendly and delicious wine, but also earns you the attention of Richard Reed and Richard Branson. For Aussie entrepreneur Nicole Lambe, this dream is now a reality with Golightly Wines.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | The key to being a leader is communicating a clearly defined vision. Once the vision is clear, a leader inspires people to action.

As an Australian living in Oxford, AMBER ROSE hopes to convince fellow Australians that there is life outside of London, and a pretty good one at that.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | How to make the most of networking opportunities at Christmas functions, whilst still enjoying the champagne and canapés.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Sometimes the hardest part of writing a speech is deciding what you are going talk about.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Picture this. You are on stage presenting. And then it happens. You are looking out at the audience and your mind goes blank.

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Just the idea of speaking in public is enough to make many of us break out into a cold sweat. But what are we actually so afraid of? Here we highlight some of the common reasons why we become so scared of public speaking, and ...

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | If you have ever been told to stop monkeying around at work, it may be harder than you think. Are we a bunch of chimpanzees running around the office?

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | My English friends always point out how easy going we Australians are and how happily Aussies say “yes” to most things. However, whether at work or at home, always saying “yes” can sometimes put us between a rock and a hard place. Learn how to ...

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | One things Aussies like is a good conversation. We are a curious bunch. We love to ask questions and find out about others. But there is an art to asking questions that goes beyond just the words we say. Sometimes questions can sound like an ...

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | We Aussies love getting up close and personal: throwing a thumbs up as a true blue way of showing we are happy to be around someone. However, despite our best intentions, our message may not be making the right impact.

LOST IN LONDON | The Lonsdale, of Notting Hill, is like the mullet of English pubs. It’s all business out the front, party on the inside.

Our resident adventurer takes advantage of London’s ‘Open House’ weekend to find out what really goes on behind this city’s closed doors, and manages to cross both #16 King’s Place and #10 Wigmore Hall off her Top 100 list along the way.

BRON IN THE DON | For our resident London adventurer, going to the movies is one of her all-time favourite activities. That’s why, when offered the chance to tick #18 of her London Top 100 list and visit the BFI on the Southbank, she jumped at the chance and busted ...

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | Your contract has been going along smoothly. An initial three month contract has rolled over and 12 months later you are still with the same organisation.

BRON IN THE DON | With the Carnival madness behind us for another year, our resident adventurer looks back at Europe’s biggest street party — and #99 on her London Top 100 list.

LOST IN LONDON | For those of you that know me, you’ll know that sometimes the mere act of standing upright is a challenge, let alone propelling forward in a horizontal motion (otherwise known as walking). And that’s when there is a clear path ahead of me, and the occasional ...

BRON IN THE DON | Everyone who has visited London has heard of Westminster Abbey, and rightly so - the building itself is stunning, not to mention all the Royal goings on that have happened there over the years. However not many people have heard of the Westminster Cathedral, #60 ...

ASTUTE AUSSIE IN LONDON | One of the many qualities that make Australians popular bosses, colleagues and employees is our self-confidence.

LOST IN LONDON | Yes, I know the Jubilee was months ago. And yes, there has been, oh I don’t know, the little matter of the Olympics in the meantime to help delete the collective memory of the BBC's coverage pondering how many toilet breaks the Royals would have needed ...

BRON IN THE DON | One of London’s more famous and alternative suburbs — Camden — gets the going over by our resident adventurer, who enjoyed a fun filled night out on the Camden tiles and got to tick off #81 of her London Top 100.

LOST IN LONDON | Back in Australia when I was picturing myself in London, in my imaginings I was always excellently dressed.

LOST IN LONDON | “Salty nuts … who wants a big bag of my salty nuts?”

BRON IN THE DON | Our musically talented London adventurer indulges in London’s annual cultural festival — The Proms at Royal Albert Hall — and ticks #30 off her Top 100 list.

BRON IN THE DON | With Olympic fever officially gripping absolutely everyone inside the English capital (and possibly the world) our resident adventurer set off to explore the vibrant hub of London 2012 - Olympic Park - and mark #7 off her London Top 100 list.

BRON IN THE DON | London is world renowned for its comedy scene, so when our resident adventurer went to tick #6 of her London Top 100 list, The Comedy Club, she got a barrelful of laughs and a whole lot more.

LOST IN LONDON | You could be forgiven for thinking that in between all the double shot soy macchiatos and accessorising with a well-teamed top hat and mismatching colored socks tucked into scuffed brogues, that there is little time left in the day for hipsters to get those exercise endorphins ...

BRON IN THE DON | From a very relaxed and brotherly shot of Princes William and Harry to Becks catching some z’s, our London adventurer headed down to the National Portrait Gallery to imbibe some culture and tick #8 of her London Top 100 list.

LOST IN LONDON | A.A Gill once said about London weather: ‘it’s been incontinent for weeks.’ A statement that has never been more true than about this particular English summer.

BRON IN THE DON | With the Olympic Games on the doorstop, our London adventurer has been racing around the city trying to tick off as many activities on her London Top 100 list as possible. This week’s escapades brought her face to face with lions (and some very smelly ...

LOST IN LONDON | Dear Hipster/Bartender (if that is your actual job) at The Westbourne

BRON IN THE DON | The beauty of London is the myriad of amazing stuff this great city throws at us and when our London adventurer heard you could explore the local Science Museum via cocktails and discos, she raced on down to tick two off her list.

BRON IN THE DON | Our resident London adventurer loves a good museum but she found her latest one, the Imperial War Museum, to be a little more sobering than she first thought.

BRON IN THE DON | Aussies love their cricket. And our resident London adventurer is no different. This week she ticks off #88 on her London Top 100 list and explores the home of cricket, Lord’s Cricket Ground.

Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, the V&A is the largest museum of decorative arts and design in the world. The collection includes over 4.5 million objects, spanning 5,000 years of art, housed in 145 galleries.