Avi Hotel

... . We did enjoy walking by the lake in the first evening, they have a very nice walkway around the it. The pool in the hotel was also great, Nadav had his first swimming session and he voted in his legs for having good time. Hangzhou is weel known for its ...

... with the hotel and off we go to find something to eat. Now, this might sound simple, but I'm already dreading the return journey. Hotel Keti is situated quite far down. And I have to push our luggage all the way down. And you probably have guessed it, ...

... countries. Now my camera is broken. No wonder. I shot pictures day and night, guessing to at least 200 000 avi and jpg files. From July 2003 until April 2007 ca 1300 days 150 shots daily - in gigabyte 2 HD with a total ...

... North Carolina.  It turns out Avi is visiting his family in Rehovot!  Our plan is to get back to the hotel and shower so we'll be ready when Avi picks us up for dinner at his family's home.  As we walk back, we become part of this festival ...

... , with the help of two young women, we figure out that the morning taxi driver had taken us to a rail station far from our hotel so he could charge a higher fare!  We could have walked to the closest station in less time than we waited for the taxi ...

... . It was about a 30 minute train ride to one stop, a 10 minute ride on another train to another stop, and a metro ride to our hotel stop. We were worried about the metro with our luggage but it wasn't bad since it was almost noon on a Thursday. We just ...

... area of Bangalore central. We were taken on board by a local auto driver who found us (because he had a deal with them!) a hotel in a slightly quieter area and it was here at the Luciya that we were finally able to lay our weary heads. We ...

... stopped to check into Hotel Daniel. The beds were arranged as if we were on a sleeper train. I have never seen hotel beds arranged this way. Interesting compact configuration.      We had just a short time to freshed up ...

... has my wife walked past so many shops so quickly. It was a quick walk with A LOT of grumbling. We reached the hotel and soon Avi was there. Off to the Ravindranathan household for dinner. Good so see Rashmi and Avi again and meeting Amitav for the first ...

Saigon is definitely my biggest disapointment to date! I was expecting Hanoi on a much grander scale & with a cool western influence, but it was neither here nor there. I found it a bit drab, with all the annoyances of Hanoi, but little of the ...

... .  After the protests that took place during the 2008 Olympics, China upped the number of military in the region.  Our hotel was situated directly across from where a number of Chinese militia were residing, and at all times five guards stood in ...

"Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts.  Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves.  It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. ...

... the 'drivers seat' was not going to be the driver.  There is a huge 16 lane highway just up from our hotel. The hotel is beautiful in the lobby and... comfortable in the rooms, but apparently beautiful by South American standards.  We had grand ...

... basically meant STFU and let me enjoy my last night of vacation (Google STFU if you really need to). We made it back to the hotel by 9pm for our last Paris dinner which could be nothing but the Harmony and Mike style of: Yep, sharing a panini on our ...

The city has grown into the surrounding rice paddies with many industrial areas with large corporations like Sony, Panasonic, Canon, etc. The banks of the Hong Son (Red River) are filling with large opulent residences indicating the money which is coming ...