Bill Clinton will be speaking about the threat of global terrorism and of his life in office at a seminar at the Royal Albert Hall on September 26. He will address leaders of industry and the public in what has been described in the promotional brochure as a 'lively discussion and debate' on current affairs, commerce and politics.

Tickets for Mr Clinton's speech will cost between $110 and $700 each. The venue he is speaking at seats approximately 5000.

Also on Tuesday, he will speak on global poverty and environmental issues to 500 very wealthy individuals, including the famous actor Michael Douglas and the ultra environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, who have paid $1,900 a head for the launch of Fortune Forum Summit - a nonprofit organisation aimed at influencing social changes.

On the 27th, Clinton will shoot over to Dublin and will be guest of honour at a lunch at the Burlington Hotel. Guests will pay $2000 for a pair of tickets. Tickets to Mr Clinton's events are usually bought by corporations as investments in employee morale-boosting.

The former President's money-making efforts have been so prolific it took just two years to pay off his legal debts after leaving office in 2001. A large portion of these legal debts came from his activities such as getting blown in the oval office.

Bill and his wife Hillary - a Senator for New York - own 2 very expensive houses, one in Chappaqua, New York, for Bill and one in Washington for Hillary's use. Bill's paltry $150,000-a-year pension would not cover the mortgages.

He negotiated a a $10 million advance on his memoirs - published in 2003 - and began a schedule of delivering 200 speeches a year.

Insiders say his prices varies between $200,000 and $600,000 and he keeps the cash for about a quarter of the speeches. The rest of the money goes to his Foundation, which has a budget of $40million a year raised from private donors. The rest are free, to support political causes or raise funds for other charities.

The flat came fully furnished and was available on either short or long term lease. (The tenant in this case opted for the longer term.) Chiswick is a nice and safe working class neighborhood. It is only about one hour on the tube to Central London.

In town you can find places to stop for a cup or get a nice lunch like Starbucks, Icosium, and Natalizi. The place to be is Chiswick High Road, a short walk from the tube station.

This beauty will be available starting June 26th for a weekly rental price of 6,000 pounds. For those of you that are reading this from the United States it comes out to about $40,000 US Dollars per month. It is a 3 bedroom Penthouse with a wraparound terrace. It has 3 bathrooms, a garage and comes fully furnished.



Apartment guide - Specialist serviced apartment search facility

A beautiful quaint charming neighborhood in Southern London. You can search the database on this site to find a flat.

It is a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a garage and is in line with what you would expect from the market around Paddington. The taller buildings such as this one are mostly located to the west of Paddington Station

IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: St. Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, and historic attractions and buildings including the Tower of London, Mansion House and Old Bailey.

Lazy Afternoon in St. James Square

St. James's was once part of the same royal park as Green Park, St. James's Park and Buckingham Palace Garden. In the 1660s, Charles II gave the right to develop the area to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans, who proceeded to develop it as a predominantly aristocratic residential area with a grid of streets centred on St. James's Square.

Until the Second World War, St. James's remained one of the most exclusive residential enclaves in London. Famous residences in St. James's include St. James's Palace, Clarence House, Marlborough House, Lancaster House, Spencer House, Schomberg House and Bridgewater House. It is now a predominantly commercial area with some of the highest rents in London and, consequently, the world. Corporate offices in St. James's include the global headquarters of BP and Rio Tinto Group. The auction house Christie's is based in King Street, and the surrounding streets contain a great many upmarket art and antique dealers. St. James's is also the home of many of the best known gentlemen's clubs in London, and is sometimes, though not as often as formerly, referred to as "Clubland". The "clubs" found here are organisations of English high society. A variety of groups congregate here, such as: royals, military officers, motoring enthusiasts, and other groups. In 1990, the Carlton Club, traditional meeting place for members of the Conservative Party, was struck by an IRA bomb. See List of London's gentlemen's clubs.

Famous streets in St. James's include:

* St. James's Square, which retains many of its original houses, but mostly in office use. The London Library is located here.
* Jermyn Street, an upmarket retail street best known for fine shirts.
* Pall Mall, which contains many of London's gentlemen's clubs.
* The Haymarket, once the best known centre of prostitution in London, but no trace of this remains now. Contains two of London's most historic theatres, the Haymarket Theatre and Her Majesty's Theatre.
* Carlton House Terrace, a pair of grand terraces of houses designed by John Nash overlooking St. James's Park.
* St. James's Street which runs down from Piccadilly to St. James's Palace.

The area is well known for its arts scene. Whitechapel Gallery is located at the bottom of Brick Lane, and amongst the many well known artists living in Spitalfields are Gilbert and George, Tracey Emin, and Stuart Brisley.

Spitalfields was long associated with the silk industry, established by French Protestant (Huguenot) refugees who settled in the area after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

Southwark Cathedral

It is hard to define notional boundaries for South Kensington, but when people talk about it, they are generally talking about the commercial area around the tube station and the adjacent graceful garden squares and streets (such as Thurloe Square, opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum). The smaller neighborhood around Gloucester Road tube station can also be considered part of South Kensington, as well as the institution area around Exhibition Road, which includes such famous names as the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal College of Music, although this part is officially part of the small area known as Knightsbridge. Although the postcode SW7 stands for South Kensington, some parts of Kensington also fall under this postcode. Only the area south of Cromwell Road is regarded as South Kensington.

Sandwiched between the extremely affluent centres of Knightsbridge and Chelsea, South Kensington is harder to characterise. Although a wealthy area overall, it also caters for large tourist and student populations; the former is reflected by the type of shops and eateries around South Kensington station, whilst the latter is evident by both the halls of residence for Imperial College and the large number of language schools in the area, which attract a sizeable number of foreign students.

The foreign students at both these language schools and at Imperial College, and the large numbers of tourists contribute to an international (predominantly European) atmosphere to the area. Large numbers of French, Spanish and Italian citizens live in the area. A significant French presence is evidenced by the location of the consulate, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle - a large French secondary school opposite the Natural History Museum - and the French Institute, home to a French cinema. There are also several French bookshops in the area.

The nearest Tube stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road.

South Bank

bfi London IMAX Cinema
Deep Sea 3D
Now open
Dive In with IMAX 3D at the bfi London IMAX Cinema

Sea life in a whole new way - DEEP SEA 3D, a new underwater adventure from the filmmakers behind the popular IMAX® 3D film Into the Deep, transports audiences deep below the ocean surface. Through the magic of IMAX® and IMAX 3D, you can take a swim with some of the planet’s most unique, dangerous and colourful creatures in this stunning and inspiring underworld.

DEEP SEA 3D is directed by world-renowned underwater cinematographer Howard Hall and narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

www.bfi.org.uk/imax 0870 787 2525
Deep Sea 3D

bfi National Film Theatre
Jacques Rivette: A Cinema of Paradox-Part 1
13 April- 31 May

Jacques Rivette is one of the great New Wave directors: a cinematic visionary, credited by his peers with having paved the way, he is still working 50 years on. This two month season includes many rare UK screenings, including the 12 hour Out One: noli me tangere.
Rivette's films are mischievous and playful, full of experimentation with narrative structure, character and improvisation. They are often structured around puzzles and unsolved mysteries, as in Paris nous appartient, which screens as an extended run in April. In this as in many of his films, the city of Paris is also a key character: naturalistic and mysterious, oppressive and empty at the same time.

www.bfi.org.uk/nft 0207 928 3232
Jacques Rivette

British Airways London Eye
Eye-Spy! London’s biggest Easter egg hunt.
1-23 April 2006

Fly the British Airways London Eye this Easter and win a Ranch Holiday in Colorado for the whole family holiday!
Visit the UK's most popular tourist attraction between 1 April and 23 April and be part of a London’s biggest Easter egg hunt. Hiding somewhere in London’s skyline is a custom made giant Easter egg and all you need to do is find it! Simply spy the egg from the Eye and mark the special Easter map provided to enter this fantastic competition.

As well as saving 10% when you book your flights online…this Easter why don’t you and your family:

1. Take to the Thames:
Experience the London Eye River Cruise this Easter, conveniently situated on our pier this 40 minute circular cruise is perfect for any family trip to London.
2. Fast Track onto the Eye:
Enjoy the luxury of priority boarding, with every adult receiving a souvenir guidebook and children receiving a fun in-flight pack with ‘Eye spy’ binoculars, this package the perfect way join in our Easter egg hunt!
3. Discover London:
Be guided through the history of London on a London Eye Discovery Flight and discover how the present day skyline has been shaped by events through the ages and the amazing story of how the London Eye was built.

www.ba-londoneye.com 0870 5000 600
Eye-Spy!

Festival Riverside @ Royal Festival Hall
Moroccan Market
14-17 April 2006
10am-8pm

This Easter experience the brilliant colours, bold designs and distinctive sights, sounds and aromas of Morocco. To mark the UK debut of Taoub, an adrenaline-rush of modern wit and mesmerising acrobatics at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, a traditional Moroccan souk comes to the South Bank.

Fabric tents stretch across the riverside front of the South Bank Centre, piled high with handicraft direct from Morocco, serving Moroccan delicacies and offering a taste of the country’s rich and varied culture. Silver jewellery, ornaments made from fragrant cedarwood, pottery of all shapes and colours, goods made from leather - said to be the softest in the world – and woven rugs are just some of the bargains to be had.

A series of free performances held throughout the day offer a flavour of Moroccan music and between shopping and enjoying the entertainments on offer you can relax on Moroccan rugs, cushions and furniture and sample authentic Moroccan tea and delicacies or have a henna artist turn your hand into a work of art.

www.rfh.org.uk 020 7921 0676
Moroccan Market
Moroccow - Once Seen Never Forgotten

National Theatre
Two Thousand Years
By Mike Leigh
Now playing

Following its sell-out run in the Cottesloe and a UK tour, Two Thousand Years transfers to the Lyttelton Theatre. In his first stage play for over a decade, Mike Leigh explores, in a gentle tragi-comic way, a wide range of issues, including politics, religion, identity and the vexed question of Israel and the Middle East.

‘Absolutely terrific, at times as screamingly funny as Abigail’s Party, at others painfully touching and true as such superb Leigh films as Secrets and Lies and Vera Drake. This is vintage Leigh.’ Daily Telegraph

‘This is not simply a play about families. Leigh is also writing about the crisis of loss of faith: about a world in which people have increasingly lost their beliefs in politics, religion and social progress. This is a passionate, funny, moving and well-observed play.’
Guardian

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk 020 7452 3000
Two Thousand Years

Queen Elizabeth Hall
Collectif Acrobatique de Tangier
TAOUB
Easter Delirium 2006
14-18 April 2006

Experience the sprit of North Africa with a captivating circus. Immerse yourself in a dreamlike Moroccan world, as acrobats fly through the air in acts that defy gravity accompanied by live Arabic music and traditional song.

Taoub is a thrilling display of Moroccan street theatre, mesmerising acrobatics and magical scenes. Hold your breath as the acrobats topple along the Tangier skyline. A seemingly endless sheet of fabric, which gives the show its name, morphs from bellowing backdrop to lavish dress, taking on a life of its own and becoming a character in the show's narrative. Live Arabic music and traditional songs performed by the company further immerses you in this dream-like Moroccan world.

Building on centuries of traditional Moroccan performance honed on the beaches of Tangier, this family company - the seventh generation of circus performers- display the traditional tricks of their forefathers with a raw, youthful zest.

Making its UK debut, this charming and soulful show is an experience that stays with you long after the final curtain.

www.rfh.org.uk/taoub 0870 163 3838

Box Office
www.rfh.org.uk/boxoffice
TAOUB

the.gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf
FALLOUT
The human cost of nuclear catastrophe
18 April – 14 May 2006, 11am-6pm daily

In the early hours of 26 April 1986 the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the Ukraine exploded. As a result the lives of millions of people in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine have been devastated. Twenty years on, a powerful exhibition of Robert Knoth’s photographs documents the toxic human legacy of the world’s most infamous nuclear accident, and other nuclear disaster zones in the former Soviet Union.

The exhibition combines tender portraits of people whose lives have been ruined by radiation exposure with haunting images of deserted and contaminated villages and tender scenes of every day life in the radioactive ruins.

With many governments now advocating a new generation of nuclear power stations, this exhibition is a cautionary reminder of the terrible human costs of nuclear technology – and the deadly consequences when things go wrong.

www.oxotower.co.uk 020 7401 2255

FALLOUT
Robert Knoth/Panos Pictures

The Old Vic
Backstage at The Old Vic
Every Monday

The Old Vic is one of the most famous theatres in the English-speaking world and loved by audiences and actors alike. Come and find out where Laurence Olivier applied his stage make up, where John Gielgud donned his costumes, where Kevin Spacey does his warm-up, and whose ghost still frightens the theatre’s staff...

To book, or for more information, call Rachael Stevens on 020 7902 7596 or email rachael.stevens@oldvictheatre.com
Tickets are just £1 per person.
Tours run every Monday (timing is negotiable with the interested party) and last about 90 minutes

www.oldvictheatre.com 020 7902 7596

Equally cool, but not to be confused with New York City's Soho. Soho London is indubitably the coolest place to rent a flat. Soho is an area of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It is roughly the area bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square to the south, and Charing Cross Road in the east. The area to the west is known as Mayfair.

Shoreditch Town Hall

From 1899 until 1965 it was the core district of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, the town hall of which can still be seen on Old Street. The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was made up of three main districts in all: Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston. The whole Metropolitan Borough was incorporated into the much larger London Borough of Hackney in 1965.

Shoreditch has become something of a moveable feast in the modern world. It is generally conflated with nearby Hoxton, leading to constructions such as 'Shoho' or 'Hoxditch'. Postwar naming decisions have not helped - for example Shoreditch Park was established, postwar, in Hoxton west of the market, while Haggerston Park occupies the site of the old Shoreditch gasworks.

Piccadilly an Epicenter Nightlife and Dining out in Central london. A lively place to let a flat if you don't mind a little noise and commotion.

Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Pickadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars. The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England, but was known as Piccadilly by 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. The circus lost its circular form in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.

The junction has been a very busy traffic interchange since construction, as it lies at the centre of Theatreland and handles exit traffic from Piccadilly, which Charles C. B. Dickens, son of Charles Dickens, described as "the great thoroughfare leading from the Haymarket and Regent-street westward to Hyde Park-corner" and "the nearest approach to the Parisian boulevard of which London can boast."

The Piccadilly Circus tube station was opened 10 March 1906 on the Bakerloo Line, and on the Piccadilly Line in December of that year. In 1928, the station was extensively rebuilt to handle an increase in traffic.

Because of its proximity to Soho, the Circus was a significant meeting point in the underground history of homosexuals in Britain, especially as a focus for prostitution and informal encounters. When Alfred Kinsey visited London to study English sexual attitudes, he immediately asked to be taken on a sexual tour of Soho. The world around Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square astounded him. Comparing London to the Hispanic sexual cultures of central America, Kinsey claimed that he had never seen so much street prostitution, except in Havana.

The intersection's first electric advertisements appeared in 1910, and from 1923 electric billboards were set up on the facade of the London Pavilion. Traffic lights were first installed in August 3, 1926 at the junction.

The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893, to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During the Second World War, the statue atop the Shaftesbury memorial fountain, The Angel of Christian Charity, was removed, and was replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned in 1948. When the circus underwent reconstruction work in the late 1980s, the entire fountain was moved from the centre of the junction at the beginning of Shaftesbury Avenue to its present position at the southwestern corner.

Pret A Manger (Located on Piccadilly)
84 Piccadilly, W1J, (Cafes and Delis)
6 minutes to the North East
Pret sells up market fast food, hand made from natural ingredients, to take away or eat on site, in its trademark no nonsense chrome interiors. The menu includes imaginatively filled sandwiches, sushi, salads, soups, and deserts.

Nobu
Metropolitan Hotel, 19 Old Park Lane, W1K, (Japanese Cuisine)
3 minutes to the West
This restaurant is a little over-hyped and very pricey; it’s advisable to book a table well in advance. The setting is very stylish indeed, at the top of the Metropolitan with views over Hyde Park, and the service is exemplary.

Al Sultan
51 Hertford Street, W1J, (Middle Eastern Cuisine)
3 minutes to the North
Another excellent restaurant in the Shepherd’s Market area, Al Sultan is nearly as good as local rival Al Hamra, but not quite. The menu is extensive and full of great dishes, notably the tableh and shawarma and fantastic lamb from the grill.

Al Hamra
31 Shepherd Market, W1J, (Middle Eastern Cuisine)
4 minutes to the North
This long-standing favourite in a prime position on the charming Mayfair enclave that is Shepherd’s Market, is a first class place that offers a truly memorable feast. The best items on the menu are traditional Lebanese fare like tabbouleh or labneh.

Le Boudin Blanc
5 Trebeck Street, W1J, (French Cuisine)
4 minutes to the North
A charming, superior French bistro that has been a well-loved feature of the Shepherd’s Market for many years. Le Boudin is expensive and you must book early, but for an authentic slice of French indulgence you can’t do better in London.

Tamarind
20 Queen Street, W1J, (Indian/South Asian Cuisine)
5 minutes to the North
Tamarind is one of the capital’s most impressive restaurants, a real treat for anyone with an interest in the variety and surprises that Indian cooking can hold. Head chef, Alfred Prasad, is a master of his craft.

Caffe Nero
50-52 Curzon Street, W1J, (Cafes and Delis)
5 minutes to the North East
Nero is probably the best of the Capital’s coffee shop chains. Offers a wide range of authentic Italian coffee in a pleasant relaxed environment. Snacks include sandwiches, Italian wraps, hot panini, soup, pasta and pastries.

Kiku
17 Half Moon Street, W1J, (Japanese cuisine)
5 minutes to the North East
Great sushi and sashimi are prepared before your eyes in a separate bar upstairs at this top-quality Japanese restaurant in the heart of Mayfair. The a la carte menu is extensive and tempting.

The Dorchester
54 Park Lane, W1A, (Afternoon Tea)
8 minutes to the North West
Winner of the Tea Council’s award for the Best Afternoon Tea in London for 2000 and 2002, this hotel has been a byword for style and comfort for over 70 years.