Carlton Apartments

Unique in so many ways, The Rock is an interesting place to say the least. After staying at various friends' apartments, hostels, and couchsurfers for weeks I stumbled upon this former backpackers on Gumtree.com that would become my home for a month. At ...

... are literally dug into the rock face.  Real estate starts at 2,500 Euros per square foot and upwards – front line sea facing apartments can go for as much as 7,500 Euros per square foot. Monaco has a total population of 36,000 out of those ...

... St in Fitzroy. Lygon St is mainly known for it's Italian restaurants and patisseries, it's supposedly Little Italy and Carlton is a more upmarket suburb. Brunswick St in contrast is more grungy bohemian with loads of secondhand shops, bars, clothes ...

... all year and fallen coconuts sometimes made us glance upwards just in case! We went for another walk past the expensive boats and apartments of the Miami Marina and wound up in 'Johnny Rockets' diner for tea (Irish folk may like to know that Johnny seems ...

... a massive 2 bedroom suite overlooking the Palm Atlantis hotel. So we had two nights there, and now we are back at the Ritz Carlton - and because they messed up our booking, they are looking after us really well!! We have been catching lots of taxis around ...

... walked the rest. Then, IES students had a mixer with some Shanghai students. We went to Hannah's Cafe, right by our apartments, and met different students. I met some strange guys from China who didn't really have very good English but we talked to them ...

... , one being a nationally renowned one. We went to the area with the ball park. This area has become very popular and small apartments here with no view sell for half a million dollars. The nearby marina used to hold about 30 boats but now is much bigger ...

... and taken to London, where it remained for 700 years until being returned to Edinburgh in 1996. Downstairs are the royal apartments, where Scottish royalty formerly resided. Adjacent to the Royal Palace is the Great Hall, built as a ceremonial hall for ...

... got there it wasn’t too crowded but before long you couldn’t move inside the place. We had pint after pint of Carlton Draught (Pronounced drawt by Christine) and ordered some food which didn’t sit on our stomachs so well later on in the ...

... down pub. Our bartender was a kid from Canada who is backpacking through Australia with no plans. We tried some local beers (Carlton Draught and VB) which were very tasty. After leaving Exford we headed next door to grab some sushi before heading back to ...

... it serves primarily now as a sales center for the development, it will eventually become a 6 star hotel and resort.  Ritz Carlton, eat your heart out.  One of the artist we met was to be our companion later for the meal,(yea, I know, ...

... walked to the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens. The palace of the Pitti family was amazing; they had all the royal apartments that the family used to live in when they ruled Florence still preserved. The Gardens were overwhelming and beautiful, we ...

... over water, but over the railway station.  Occupancy rates in downtown Johannesburg office buildings were probably 25% or less. In the Carlton Centre we had a chance to stock up on provisions for Zimbabwe, as if we were heading for the back of ...

... had been demonstrated earlier by the Aussie males present who participated in the ritual standing around the BBQ with Coopers, Boags and Carlton Draught in hand while the host held centre stage as 'the Tong Master'!   We're currently living in the ...

... ; Because they ground they are built onto the remains of an old historical hotel that could not be demolished for historical purposes, the apartments are instead held up by a bridge like structure at the top.     After the Sony Center we ...

... nbsp; His friend across the alley was gone that weekend, so I had the keys to her entire apartment.  Their apartments are traditional shikumen houses, housing units built by the French in the early 1900s.  After the Cultural Revolution the giant ...

... and I don't think handovers and F1 cars would be a good combination! We did however have a few drinks in the courtyard of our apartments with some friends and then headed out to Red Eye at Base and Greasy Joes for some St Paddy's Day drinks. The next ...

... fond of a life where we dine out for breakfast quite regularly), so as you would expect after a feed it was back to the apartments for a lazy Sunday afternoon.  Garry (our landlord) organised a BBQ for Tarun leaving so around 5 we made our way out to ...

... on and off and orientating yourself. The only place I jumped off was the Docklands area....it's kinda in development with new apartments being built, it's also the home of a big stadium called Telstra Dome too. wandered around for a bit taking a few pics ...