Astor Court

... nbsp;Just as my lack of hostel patience was beginning to border on murderous I found a share house to move into in Baron’s Court. The friendly flatmates invited me to stay on their sofa bed for a couple of weeks until the room I would be renting was ...

... it. It was kind of weird but supposedly a tradition. I figured out that my grounds pass entitled me to free standing room on Court 2, so I waited with some British people for a while until I was able to get in and see the last set of the Williams ...

... British Museum and the Tower of London since they were FINALLY open again.  The British Museum was massive and the great court inside is really something, unfortunately we couldn't spend so much time there so I spent it speeding through most of the ...

... a couple of hours and we finally made it to the church, took some photos and then got on the tube to go to Baron's Court to the tennis tournament. We saw a couple of my favorite tennis players: Andy Roddick, Novak Djokovic, and Richard Gasquet at the ...

... ! Next was Wimbledon, where we toured the museum (which has a holographic John McEnroe!) and the courts, including centre court and the hill where spectators can watch on a summers evening. Interestingly wimbledon is very under utilisted during the year ...

... one of the richest men in the world.  For example, some beautiful wood panelling throughout a number of rooms were Astor additions.  The house contained some excellent displays of Anne's personal prayer books, costumed life-sized figures of ...

... Visions Enrichment program with just 1 sea day on this voyage. The 10AM program was destination lecturer Rex Ziak with "John Jacob Astor: Empire, Monopoly, and the Founding of Astoria, Oregon". Rex is a native of Astoria, and an artist, historian, and ...

... about 1.45 and we walked back through Grand Central Station – another gem of art deco architecture. Caught the subway to Astor Place then walked to Washington Square. Walked through the park. A band was playing near the fountain (where Bob Dylan ...

... ’t mind my sitting around. I walked to Astor Place to take the #6 up to Grand Central Station. I wandered around the food court on the lower level before ordering a chocolate egg cream at Junior’s. I stayed at the station until it was time for ...

... we found a lovely and very affordable central residence: the Hotel Astoria (the name is quite significant for us Plymothians as the namesake Astor family stems from here). Day 5 was to be a culmination in ferrata madness and walking fervor. We were on our ...

... which time it was leased to various private tenants, until it was acquired and completely restored by the American millionaire William Waldorf Astor, who used it as a family residence. The estate is now run as a conference centre, but the castle is open ...

... was facing 20 years to life in prison on a marijuana charge that was about to be prosecuted in Detroit Recorders Court.   I had just recently walked the band out of their bitterly unworkable six-month relationship with Elektra Records and, under ...

... included clues for a treasure hunt) we'd downloaded from the internet before we left. We found the golden ship above the old Astor offices just around the corner from Milford Lane. We found the carved faces in Essex Street. We found St Clement Danes, of ...

... Oklahoma to Harry Potter. They even still have the old two-level seating in place. We watched an old film called the Court Jester, Johnny's favourite, and giggled at the silly humour. It was so much fun and a totally different cinema experience. We had a ...

... and pay again in order to go uptown on the 6 from this station—otherwise you can only go downtown). Anyway I got off at Astor Place and walked a couple blocks to Pommes Frites. The premise of this place is they serve french fries with a variety of ...

... a key for my room and waking everyone up to let me in. We left the place early and moved to our next hostel, Victoria-Astor, which was pretty nice. Buying a travel pass for the day we started at the Tower Bridge and City Hall by Foster and mad our way ...

Tim called around yesterday to find a church for us to attend this morning.  The closest was St. Aloysius parish which Tim liked because of the Irish nun who answered the phone.  It was located near the Euston Square station so we headed ...

Because we got in so late, we got a late-ish start the next morning.  We decided to go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum first.  We walked North from our hotel to the Great Portland St. underground.  There was a restaurant in the traffic ...

Our first day in London was jam packed with things to do.  That night we were to take Susan (one of my bosses' clients out to dinner, so after indulging in the provided continental breakfast, we stopped by the front desk for some advise on ...

The next day, we got up, packed and took off for Calais where we were to catch the ferry for Dover and then London.  We had several places we wanted to stop along the way including Deauville, made famous in the movie Gigi, it has a lovely beach with ...