Cherry Court Hotel

... tube into Victoria Station(switching trains at Hammersmith). It was only a brisk walk down the street to our B&B at Cherry Court Hotel. We are having fun! We'll be here 3 nights before we head up to Scotland.   Tonight I think ...

... 9 PM we went topside and waited for the boat to cruise through the lock.  Four of us were virgins sow we lost our lock cherry as we threw packs of chewing gum to the kids waving on the shore.  The moon was full and silvery as we made ...

... for the hustle and bustle of London. I had booked a room for a week at a rather grandiosely sounding hotel - Palace Court Hotel in Bayswater. The Priceline information said the hotel had been newly upgraded and offered accommodation with breakfast ...

... (W, JPY 7,800 ~), Meitetsu New Grand Hotel (W, JPY 7,000 ~), International Hotel Nagoya (W, JPY 5,000 ~), Rose Court Hotel (W, JPY 6,500 ~), Mielparque Nagoya (W, JPY 6,700 ~) 3.Luxury: Nagoya Marriott Associa (W, JPY 24,000 ~), Hilton Nagoya (W, ...

... and were immediately charmed by the main street. We found a nice little Italian restaurant for Easter dinner. Our hotel, the Chester Court hotel was essentially a bed and breakfast and the main building was so quaint and charming. We stayed in one of the ...

London was the trip of the closed monuments. Not because they were actually closed, but because we always arrived fashionably late. Our hotel was tiny! The bathroom had your knees to the sink, and it was one of those dinky half sinks. But it was visibly ...

... Customs before boarding the train).  But we quickly got back on track and caught the next train an hour later. After finding our hotel it was off to see the sights of London.  From Buckingham Palace, to Big Ben (yes mom, still my favorite ...

... my friends...   Yes, we are now back in London for our last leg of our adventures abroad....and we are at our B&B hotel near Victoria Station (the same one we stayed in when we first arrived). We set out today from Bath...it's been lovely (sunny ...

... a tree-lined boulevard to the beautiful Blue Mosque. Next to it is the upmarket Saray Cafe where I stopped for a refreshing sour cherry juice before beginning my tour of Topkapi. I arrived just in time to see the colourful Janissary band strut its stuff. ...

... meat.  I also got a piece of apple pie (because Alina took the last piece of Black Forest Cherry Cake), and a Sprite. We then walked back to the court house and were talked to by two clerks of the court, one from Italy and one from Bulgaria.  ...

... English. At 7am I had some breakfast and then used the hotels business center until 8am when I was picked up my tour guide "Cherry". Talk about luck, but today again I was going to have a private tour as no other tourists had booked an English ...

... and famous people stay there, they said Queen Elizabeth was there a few months ago. It is a very nice white tiny hotel with court yards a few shops, bar, restaurants.  In the Long Bar we ordered our Singapore Sling, we were already warned ...

... court, it overlooks magnificent plane trees, a fountain, the town church and a busy preliminery school. A wonderful dessert of cherry cake with sour, cold cherries, cake that tasted like pure egg, and yellow, speckled vanilla icecream completed a perfect ...

... snack bar because we were kind of starting to feel hungry.  I got a small popcorn for $5, Marc got a pretzel, and we shared a Cherry granite.  The total was only $15.  Not too bad at all.  Looking back, we should have gotten 2 ...

... day before, and without even had a wash. The whole experience was amusing, and the cocktail itself (some concoction of Gin, Cherry Brandy, Pineapple/Lime Juice, Cointreau, and a few other ingredients thrown in), was scrumptious.  Down the road was ...

... stop: Kanazawa Castle; A beautiful imperial castle with a large moat, impressive gardens and best of all, very few people. The cherry blossoms were still quite spectacular here although by now there was a blanket of petals forming on the ...

... ! Suitably replete, we headed off for the Imperial Palace Gardens - vast and beautiful. We had just missed the cherry blossom season by a few weeks, but the azaleas were now doing their thing and looking quite stunning. The gardens are ...

... necklace to go with the black cheongsam. Mum and Dad bought some ceramic chopsticks. I'd seen the same ones but with a cherry blossom pattern that I resisted buying as Ben would kill me if we got even more chopsticks! Some other interesting information ...

... an amazingly large pizza which was hanging over the sides of the plate, and instead of a tomato base it had half a dozen cherry tomatoes cut in half and sprinkled over the pizza along with melted cheese and strips of chicken. It was a little strange I ...

... the sculpture garden, but the day was bright and sunny.  We took the obligatory photo of the giant Spoon and Cherry sculpture, a Minneapolis landmark, and then headed back to the parking garage.  As we drove toward the exit of the parking ...