Lorien Hotel And Spa - A Kimpton Hotel Alexandria

... clear the trees guarding the approach but long enough to make the green. I hit my 6 iron on the green and within 8 feet from the pin. My one shining moment during an otherwise frustrating round. To compound my frustration was the blatant cheating of Charley, one of the other guys in the foursome. Paul and I commented each time he claimed a bogus score but neither one of us challenged him directly. Charley claimed to have shot a 86 for the round. I shot a 105.

Despite the long trip (I think we calculated a total of 28 hours) from when we left Canberra till arriving in New York, our first full day started with a sense of excitement with a Day Trip to Washington. Not knowing exactly where Washington DC was, not how far it was from NYC. Catching the bus at Grand Central Station (42nd Street), we decided to walk through Central Park to catch in early morning activity. There was heaps of runners and ...

... with citizens of the countries we're visiting in--staying in B&Bs and patronizing locally owned tour companies and restaurants. How much does a trip like this cost? The short answer--a lot. But of course, this varies a huge amount depending on where you go, what level of accommodation and food you choose, etc. A basic sketch is below: Vaccinations/Visas: Vaccinations and prescriptions for the two of us totaled about $1000. Visas and entry/departure fees ...

... the house. We then arranged to meet Chris for a quick lunch between visits to the National Archives where H tried to do some research on Bill's father. By luck she met a very helpful lady who lived in Magnolia (Bill's childhhod area) so she has our email and will do some checking. The Archives is a fabulous place and I wanted to spend more time there ... but we needed to be back at the hotel to meet Bill's step niece who was driving to meet us. The rest of the ...

... These places seem to be compulsory in any town that has a population over 5 people. Then for tea i go upmarket and have a subway. I know i should find somewhere else to eat but they don't seem to have many restaurants over here. Its like the main diet seems to be based on fast food. No wonder 60% of the population is fat. But u cant beat 6 donughts for breakfast. I didn't go into Washington cause i hit the rush hour traffic. This made the M25 look like a racing circuit. It ...

... character is changing from what it was, which was a kind of pre-Harlem Halem, jazz legends playing the theatres etc. Every so often you come across a 'soul' cafe or store that's been there since those times, but they are having to make room slowly for the smarter shops & cafes - it's the ripple effect from Du Pont Circle. We started off by going to see the White House, which was fun, then calling in at an art gallery to ...

... news - we're a day ahead of schedule - we're driving longer distances than the computer allocated. We wanted to get ahead for problems like this. Oh - we had another problem last night paul hit a switch by accident and shut off all of the electric - this was around midnight - it was really fun figuring out what happened. After about 20 minutes I finally asked if he turned on the switch - he's really good for turning on wrong switches! By the way I ...

Air India is a pain in the ****. They um and ah and stutter and stammer to result in about an hour and a half delay to the departure. I suppose thats pretty good after watching all the guys trying to leave london before xmas with all that fog cancelling flights left, right and centre. Flight was about 7 hours, time difference is 5 hrs, so you arrive 2 hrs after you left (looking at the watch that is) JFK airport ...

... constitution. X'tine has battled the dreaded Ileostomy, Colostomy and some even say the evil Urostomy. The Druid of the party, Trude, skilled in the creation of powerful potions and spells. Finally myself, a nomadic Ranger able to tame the most wild animals. I am known as Walker from the Wilderness. Woo and X'tine had been gambling at the waterfront with a drunken dwarf and managed to cheat him out of a bird pass. Hence they had left prior to Trude and myself. We had to settle ...

Mount Vernon is the estate of George Washington. He called the area around his estate the Mansion House Farm and often referred himself as a farmer rather as the President of the United States. During the guided tour, we were told that even though he never travelled to England during his lifetime, he recreated his garden into an English garden ...