Bell Channel Hotel

... gorgeous.  Venice really is quite the city.  Approximately every 3 blocks in any direction you go, there is a channel to cross.  There are no cars anywhere (a welcome change after the hustle and bustle of Paris and Madrid), so ...

... around 4:30, we easily caught a city bus to take us a short ways to the zentrum, or city center. Our hotel was near the bell tower; the t Vordmenshys was very clean, very comfortable. Cools had a 3rd floor small room with a BIG bathroom; Coles ...

... we were interested. Later we walked past Frailes, a monastery converted to a boutique hotel, with a beautiful courtyard garden which incorporated an old aqueduct channel. In the street outside there were walled enclosures showing the same water system. ...

Thursday 24th February            mouth of the Beagle Channel-Ushuaia-Buenos Aires    We are woken as usual by Aaron's morning message at 6.30am, finish our packing and out to breakfast a 7, ...

I thoroughly enjoyed the train from Paris to London.  Watching the countryside whizz by was enchanting...  travelling under the English Channel was as you'd expect ~ dark.  It gave us some time to review our maps and get our bearings... It ...

... this historic palace complex. ENGLAND: London - Travel from Paris to London on the high speed EuroStar train under the Channel. Introductory guided tour to major points of interest in London. Classes and final assignments along with visit to Parliament ...

... , and massive earthworks to rehabilitate the river here into an attractive public space, with new stone fences and a new concrete channel. The rail station is a large stone building, relatively new-looking. We ask at the information booth and are directed ...

... too much of a big deal.  We sat in the courtyard lounge and managed to find an episode of Friends on the Warner Bros channel so that passed some time.  We then decided to head out and pass an hour which might also take the pressure off ...

... the same panini and wine.  The I headed back to the hotel where I started to watch TV.  The problem is the only channel in English is CNN International.  It was very interesting, but then I realized it ran on a loop.  The same stories ...

... nearby food hall, leaving most of it as it was all on-the-bone and full of fat and gristle!   We spent the evening in front of the hotel TV watching news from the Oscars and whatever film came on the movie channel - that's just how cultured we ...

... would deflect it and run back down the court. This went on for about 15 minutes before I could take no more and switched the channel to CNN, BBC News or MTV, the only channels in English.  The breakfast was amazing at the IVbergs Premium Hotel. I ...

... and the company of the owner of the restaurant who entertained us with interesting stories before me headed back to the hotel and watched the English channel and The Flinstones Scrooge. Today has been a very relaxing Sunday where Jo and l have simply ...

... in the tarmac at the edge of the road, fell down landing on my knees, and placed my hand straight into the mud of a drainage channel. It was mostly shock I think, and pain caused my knee landing on a stone, but according to Didier I sounded like an alarm ...

... government role.  Now there are national university entrance examinations, and the other day on CCTV 9 (the English language channel) I saw a bit about a small rural poor town in Southeast China that boasts that nearly 70% of its ...

... other items - and now we tourists make up most of their income. Leaving Puno by boat, we travel up a reed lined channel before it opens into a bay of reed islands....This is (unfortunately) like a theme park....tourist boats sailing between the islands, ...

... McDonald's!  Though this wasn't any ordinary McDonald's.  I was actually looking forward to this on the trip.  Travel Channel had a show profiling the ten most unusual McDonald's in the world.  This McD's in Montreal made the ...

... as we got out, it was freezing. So, we went back to the room and watched Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe on Discovery Channel. Side note: We were reading the paper in Auckland yesterday and Amy was reading a story about someone was heard yelling Help, Come ...

... : We ended our two month with ten days in London, arriving from Paris on the Eurostar train via the Chunnel under the channel between France and England. The trip through the Chunnel proper took only 22 minutes. The photo of Susan and Big Ben may ...

... was a bit sad.  Hakata Canal City Music Fountain Video (my video uploaded on YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAuW1X-dS1w&feature=channel_video_title  If you have a chance to visit the Canal City, it is an idea to watch this show. The ...

... bloody lights turned off and you want to go to sleep. The best I could do was wrap a blanket around my head, switch the channel of my inflight entertainment to all 80s and, to Ultravox and Culture Club, I think I managed something like sleep. I must have ...