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Top 10 Valentine’s Day Retreats Part 2
Part 1 here. 6. Eiffel Tower, Paris, France How romantic! Why not take your partner to the most romantic city in the world, along with every other un-original couple out there. While you are in Paris you can go to see the Eiffel Tower. Just join the queue, you mght get in before it closes for […]
Top 10 Valentine’s Day Retreats
February 11, 2014
National Geographic have an article today listing what are (in their opinion) the top ten Valentine’s Day retreats. Here is my take on the list: 1. Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, California Straight in at number 1, the USA! I went to California once. I didn’t get to see any of the coast, or anywhere outside […]
The most amazing hotels in the world part 4
February 10, 2014
The final installment of the best (and strangest) hotels in the world. 19. Hotel-Restaurant Öschinensee, Switzerland This looks like a nice place, although a little cold and gloomy. The table looks like something from my Nanna’a patio set when she used to live in New England. And look at the slope on it! 20. Astarte Suits […]
The most amazing hotels in the world part 3
February 9, 2014
13. Hotel Le Sirenuse, Amalfi Coast, Italy Another cave, although at least this one is light and probably without bats. They do need to get a gardener in, though. Look at the weeds climbing along the roof. 14. Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden No. Just no. 15. The Cambrian Hotel, Adelboden, Switzerland This is more like it. Look at […]
The most amazing hotels in the world part 2
February 8, 2014
7. Hotel Ristorante Grotta Palazzese Polignano a Mare, Italy Another hotel and restaurant in a cave! Who looks at a cave and thinks ‘you know what would be good there? A restaurant’. What’s wrong with normal restaurants, like Applebee’s or Olive Garden? Why does everything in Europe have to be in a cave or on top […]
My disastrous trip to see the Taj Mahal
October 7, 2013
Everybody says the best time to see the Taj Mahal is first thing in the morning when the sun is rising, bathing the monument in light. I ordered an alarm call from the rather disinterested hotel clerk for 5.30am. Much to my surprise I was awoken at 5.30 on the button by a knock on […]
Backpacking with Chad 
February 12, 2014
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