Alicia s Palace

Up early, treadmill, shower, breakfast, re-pack, await pickup at the Taj Palace for transport to the Safdarjung Railway Station which google maps says is nearby. The most interesting thing that happened this morning was the departure of His Excellency ...

... walk through the park and into the grounds. We'd mapped out a bit of an itinerary for the day and first up was Australia's Alicia Molik v Hungary's Greta Arn. Despite all the cheering in the world for 'our' Alicia she went down in straight sets. We left ...

... streams that were now flooding the streets. I used up all my story energy on that, so the rest might be short. The Grand Palace was impressive, but I don't know what else to say about it. It was big and pretty and elaborate, and I saw the jade ...

... wall and tower that looked like they belonged to a midevil castle.   Apparently the Prince of Monaco lives in the Palace, but the Princess lives somewhere else- after all, why limit yourself when you can live anywhere.  Someone told me ...

... Papel Palace or Palaces des Papes.  When Rome wasn't safe for the Pope, Benedictine III moved to Avignon and built a Palace.  Then, Benedictine the V or VI added on to the palace with beautiful gothic architecture to make it what it is ...

Today Miranda and I went to Topkapi Palace after a breakfast of cinnamon carrot scones and Turkish coffee. On our way Miranda stopped to buy earrings for a friend. We were looking at a board of earrings on the street when this man came up to us and said ...

... make it into Istanbul, but it did give me a day to do whatever I wanted.  I started out by heading to Dolmabahce Palace, where the Ottoman Sultans lived after they moved out of Topkapi Palace and before the royal family was exiled.  There were 2 ...

... Building, and Westminster Abbey. Wednesday, I saw the horse guards, walked through St. James’ Park, saw Buckingham Palace, walked through Knightsbridge (a really “posh” area), went to the Science Museum, walked through Kensington Park, ...

... at Ajmer along the way. Tuk tuk ride to mosque through narrow alleyways, followed tuk tuk driver by foot though shortcuts!!! Alicia thought we were going to lose our organs today... Pushkar is a small village on lake surrounded by ghats....holy place. ...

... ; Next I saw a bunch of famous people at Madame Tussaud’s.  Tuesday, I went to the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. It was ridiculous. I got there an hour early, and already there was no way to get close enough to the gates to see ...

... nbsp;  The next day was the 70th birthday of Queen Margarethe, Queen of Denmark!  We headed out to see her wave at her palace, but by the time we got there the place was packed, so we just sat on a fence along the parade route.  We did ...