Ben More Lodge Hotel

After surprising all at the Ben-More Lodge with our ability to arrive at breakfast in a suitably fresh state, we had a great breakfast of porridge, bacon, eggs and sausage.   Chappy gives the haggis a try and gives it the thumbs up.  We say ...

... .   Its a very moving experience and i'll admit to a few tears. We end up at Crianlarich and book into the Ben-More Lodge Hotel.  The three boys will share the bunkhouse but at 25 pounds per head we are not complaining.   The pub ...

... more than likely getting shipped to the island!!! Hopped on the back of a motorbike taxi that took me to my lodge, no real roads here so to speak of, more like paths, and definately no cars!!! Got a bungalow in the garden, and its so peaceful, except for ...

... was sharing with Sam. Cut a long story short, we ended up telling Dawna to sort it and not paying. Ben booked a nice romantic night in the Arenal Observatory Lodge tonight. It took us about 40 minutes to get there in an old bumpy minibus. Our room was ...

... , then let them do it, its there fault if they snuff it then. After watching the sunset I headed back to the Outback Lodge & Hotel to finally meet the dorm mates, 2 manc lads, alriiiiiiiight, and 1 girlie from Ilford in Essex, sorry LONDON. We went to ...

... 4 hours simply to ride this thing. So we aborted our original plan and decided to revisit this site on Monday when things would be more quiet. Since it was such a beautiful day, we decided it would be perfect for a tour throughout the city on top of a ...

... Square, saw Big Ben, watched a veterans ceremony, heard an organ concert at St. Pauls Cathedral, and more. Wonderful, but very hot! Arrived in Oxford around 9pm. Very nice hotel, but a bit far from town. Planning a full day touring ...

... the foreground and reaching all the way to the horizon. The hike back down was swift and enjoyable and after breakfast back at the lodge we headed down to Dzonglha, the start of the second section of the trip: across the formidable Cho La Pass and up to ...

... memorial. At first it was sort of underwhelming because I wasn't expecting what it turned out to be. But after I thought about it some more, it started to make sense. When I think of a memorial, I think of a statue or something challenging to be the most ...

... the Rangers for the help and assistance they had given us during our stay. We then headed off towards Hobart passing the Derwent hotel with our first stop being the Niva River and we saw a lovely stopping spot that had fireplaces and table and chairs ...

... the village just as the sun is setting, and get a hazy glimpse of Annapurna in the distance. When we get back to the hotel Murray gets more sunset photos from the back of the hotel. There is a Cultural show at the hotel that night, which was better than ...

... in a more distant tree. It was dark and almost 7PM by the time we checked into the Seronera Lodge, which was a very nice hotel with large wooden beams and vaulted ceilings located at the geographic center of Serengeti National Park. I ...

... Belle Villa. We were greeted with the kind of reception that I wasn't used to from the guesthouses I'd frequented last time: hotel staff carried our backpacks to our bungalow, and we were presented with glasses of herbal juice on arrival. Belle Villa ...

... to buy marijuana.  We did what would be expected in a place like this, and after awhile we headed back to the hotel with Shashemene’s finest abundance.  A little later i discovered what would be my favorite treat of Ethiopia, the frest ...

... to Besisahar then onto Khudi where we got our stamps that allowed us into the trekking zone. To get to the lodge for the first night, Hotel Arjun Garden there was a crossing over the a on what was to be one of many steel suspension ...

... bar, 800 DVDs including Con Air 3 and Titanic 2???, and everynight there was a camp fire with guitars and a sing song. Usually Hotel California. The Cameron Highlands is like the lakes but with jungle and not as many lakes haha and the main attraction are ...

... !), and it must have been crazy for Karen. We got dropped off on Khao San Road at the opposite end from our hotel, Buddy Lodge, and the walk down the almost-deserted street was bizarre. There were some clean-up crews and a few drunk European ...

... to Namche, which on the one hand is great as its a great village with lots going on and I am staying at the lovely Hotel Sherpaland.  Gorgeous proper beds with big thick duvets - heaven! In hindsight, it was probably a bit too far to do in one ...

... saw hundreds of beautiful, newborn goats running around under the feet of a few parents. Around the corner from the hotel was a restaurant called YacDonalds, a McDonalds take-off complete with red and yellow window trim. YacDonalds sold yak burgers that ...

... 8217;ll kick off with Tuesday 9th June, where James and I were woken up early in the Puerto Maldonado hotel in order to leave for the Inotawa Lodge. We were quite content, because we’d spent the night in the room eating pizza and watching movies on ...