Albert Hotel

On the short walk from our hotel to the Royal Albert Hall I think we all felt elated, as though we were on the quest of a lifetime and knew we'd find our grail. We must have looked hilarious carrying our modified stilts and bizarre costume pieces along the ...

... selling Chinese food and hamburgers.  I try the ginger beef which really isn't bad then continue my ride until I pull into Prince Albert National Park just as it's getting dark.  I quickly get my tent set up by a lake and crawl in for the ...

... an EZ-Pass for the bike) but they had to stop and dig in their pockets every couple of miles. That night, we stopped in Albert Lea, Minnesota and stayed at the AmericInn.  One of the guys that was trailering had developed a hernia so he went to the ...

... in this part of the world and see signs to all the towns that were the main battlefields in WW1, such as Passchendale, Albert and Amiens. It is also amazing and quite humbling to see the signs in almost every town for Commonwealth war cemeteries. You ...

... the D1029 which goes thru Bonnay heading towards the town of Albert, this has a church that was reconstructed after the war.  Albert was the main town behind the lines for the Allies nearest to the 1916 Somme battlefields.  In the centre is one ...

... up his old tent and let us sleep in his back yard we managed to get another 100kms down the road and stayed the night in Albert Lea. Sleepy Minnesota town and the lady at the motel check in desk told us not to worry about vandalism and that we should park ...

... spectacle, but this was still going to be eclipsed in about 15 minutes time.  We left the highway and dropped down into Albert Lea - a town of about 30,000 population and about 5,000 lined the streets to cheers us in, along by their lake and into ...

Well we made it home safely!  On Tuesday, May 4, we took the early morning train from Quimper to Paris.  We stayed at a hotel at the Charles De Galle Airport for the night so we were sure to be there for our flight Wednesday AM.  We arrived ...

... Melbourne at 22:00 so we'll likely miss seeing much of the trip up-river. However, we'll anchor somewhere and not berth until after lunch tomorrow. Now expect to be a bit late getting to Napier (having emailed the hotel from Sydney to say I'd be ...

... The two young women singing gospelly style backing vocals actually did a fair bit of lead singing and were great. And the Albert Hall itself DIDN''T LET US DOWN. It's a bit like being inside a sherry trifle but its oh so gorgeous, the ...

... the thumbs up, the diver was then lowered to the bottom.  After morning tea we walked up yet another hill to the Albert Park dominated by old gnarled trees (Ombu - a massive evergreen herb native to the Pampas of South America), in fact it was ...

... so he can't fly, which means he can't dive to catch the fish. As the other pelicans fly over him, gliding above the waves, Albert just swims. He enjoys being in the water. After that he comes back to the hotel, grooms his feathers carefully, and goes to ...

On the short walk from our hotel to the Royal Albert Hall I think we all felt elated, as though we were on the quest of a lifetime and knew we'd find our grail. We must have looked hilarious carrying our modified stilts and bizarre costume pieces along ...

... his cap, lifted his head, looked up as if to give honour to the Gods and in his best northern accent began reciting 'Albert and the Lion'.  The centre stage soon emptied leaving Nick, now in full swing, entertaining an ampitheatre of multi cultural ...

On the short walk from our hotel to the Royal Albert Hall I think we all felt elated, as though we were on the quest of a lifetime and knew we'd find our grail. We must have looked hilarious carrying our modified stilts and bizarre costume pieces along ...

... places in the world where that would happen. As for Jaipur's sights, some are simply stunning. Thy have their very own Albert Hall (commissioned by Queen Victoria, Empress of India, etc), which unfortunately, doesn't quite live up, on the inside, ...