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Culture United Kingdom
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- Visa :
- No
- Vaccinations :
- No
- Currency :
- Pound sterling
- Capitale :
- London
- Languages :
- English, bihari, ga
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Weather United Kingdom
- London 17°C 16°C 12°C 10°C
- Birmingham 16°C 16°C 11°C 9°C
- Manchester 14°C 15°C 10°C 10°C
- Leeds 14°C 14°C 9°C 9°C
- Newcastle 13°C 15°C 10°C 11°C
- Stansted 13°C 14°C 10°C 11°C
- Bristol 17°C 16°C 12°C 9°C
- Southampton 18°C 16°C 13°C 9°C
- Luton 15°C 14°C 10°C 9°C
- Plymouth 16°C 16°C 12°C 10°C
- East Midlands 15°C 15°C 11°C 10°C
- Coventry 16°C 16°C 12°C 9°C
- Wick 10°C 9°C 9°C 10°C
- Edinburgh 16°C 14°C 10°C 11°C
- Aberdeen 12°C 12°C 9°C 11°C
- Inverness 13°C 12°C 9°C 15°C
- Dundee 16°C 15°C 11°C 12°C
- Prestwick 14°C 13°C 11°C 13°C
- Glasgow 16°C 14°C 11°C 13°C
- Isle of Man 11°C 11°C 9°C 11°C
- Sumburgh 9°C 8°C 8°C 9°C
- Guernsey 16°C 15°C 13°C 12°C
- Jersey 17°C 16°C 13°C 12°C
- Alderney 17°C 16°C 14°C 12°C
- Belfast 15°C 14°C 8°C 12°C
- Cardiff 18°C 16°C 11°C 10°C
United Kingdom : Discover the country's culture and traditions
Culture
British culture:
Festivals:
Notting Hill Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Glastonbury Music Festival, Raindance (film festival).
Gastronomy:
Fish and chips, scones, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, tea. Pub culture.
Etiquette:
Form orderly queues, greet someone for the first time by shaking the hand and always say your pleases and thank yous.
British Comedy:
Benny Hill, Mr Bean, Monty Python, Blackadder, Only Fools & Horses, Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, The Royal Family, The Office, Ali G, Steptoe & Son, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, Outnumbered, The Inbetweeners.
British TV:
Soaps: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks.
Literature
Poets:
Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.
Playwrights::
William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter.
Authors:
Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Stephen Fry and Nick Hornby.
Country guide
Films
Pride and Prejudice, Love Actually, Bridget Jones's Diary, James Bond series, Billy Elliot, Trainspotting, The Holiday, This Is England, Brighton Rock, The King's Speech and The Iron Lady.
Music
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, The Who, The Kinks, David Bowie, T. Rex, The Clash, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Specials, Tom Jones, Blur, Oasis, Westlife, Take That, the Spice Girls, The Prodigy, Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Razorlight, Adele, Coldplay and Muse.
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