Galleon House

... as I can when I can - so I had to make a decision.    The decision was assisted by the lovely girl at the Galleon House in St Thomas.  I called to inquire about rooms, not knowing exactly where I would be spending my night on Thursday but ...

... is an old teak Thai house, genuine, authentic - but on a practical level akin to sleeping in a cross between an Elizabethan galleon and a B & Q shed. It is impossible to walk across our room without it creaking or shut the door quietly. Daylight peeps ...

... on the underside. Heaven. On the Friday (last day) it was time to use up the pass, to get back to Tokyo involved a taxi, two buses, two cable cars, a funicular, two trains and a fake 18th century galleon, complete as always with fake pirate, and why not. ...

... fair, nice and grand, a big old church, that kind of thing. The naval museum housed on a representation of a Portuguese galleon was pretty good, it's air conditoning in particular made quite the impression on me. The China town ...

... caught my attention a great vessel anchored in the first dock to the right and we crossed to the other side to see it. It's a Spanish galleon which was built to make the film Pirates, of Roman Polanski. I had curiosity to visit  it and so I did, as ...

... of Wasa and the recovery of it some 300 odd years later is a must for anyone who wants to understand this wonderfully preserved galleon (low salinity of the water was one reason). Although it is in Swedish, English subtitles are displayed in LED above the ...

... go and do the various museums. I have to email tour companies and hotels in Chile but really cannot be bothered. Had lunch in the Galleon and have to have a siesta as the bloody travel agent is closed for a 4 hour siesta on a Saturday no wonder there are ...

... spent in the area to try and attract tourists. Not all of it was overly great but they did have a reconstruction of a Galleon which was pretty cool, and a biosphere which looked good but slightly out out of place. After a walk down the ...

... it’s like a sole. The chips are great, but like all great things need to be consumed in moderation.   From The Galleon we returned to the harbor where we went on a 30-minute sightseeing water cruise to view the coastal community across the bay, ...

... the Independence Bridge to explore the baths left over from the Turks. We checked out a couple, but they were closing. The Galleon baths were nice, but the Ramos baths looked dirty and grungy. Everything closes very early here, probably resulting from 50 ...

... . I went back to the other side of the island and ended up doing a Wave Runner tour from the Ski Key West booth behind the Galleon Resort. The tour lasts 1.5 hours and you basically circle Key West. It was a lot of fun, but it’s hard to look at ...

... in the evening I would have described the road as a ribbon of moonlight across the purple moor, and the moon as a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy shore. It wasn't evening, however and I had hours of daylight left before I needed to find lodgings for ...

... tower Micador Peri ,     These were to protect the bullion that was stored at the customs house, which awaited shipment to Spain by galleon. However the English really appreciated that the Spanish had gone all over southern and central America, ...

... the Skansen museum, we went by ourselves to the Vasa museum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship), to see a phenomenal 17th century galleon which sank a few hundred yards into its maiden voyage as it attempted to sail out of Stockholm. Its 120 tons of ...

... in Hell.  I feel really guilty because everyone’s Inggeris is amazing. We next visit a museum that’s in a replica Portuguese galleon.  It costs the equivalent of about a pound for both of us to go in.  Inside is a museum of the ...

... eateries, wooded hillsides flank the bay and the harbour is bobbing with various boats and vessels. Rumour has it that a wreck of a Spanish galleon lies somewhere in the mud at the bottom of the bay, part of the defeated Armada of 1588 - it was supposed ...

... city. I went up to the Oosterdok (our harbor) and got to see a replica of a Dutch East India Company (VOC for short) Galleon. The VOC was the largest trader in Asia at its height in the 17th century and was the first company to issue stock. Afterwards, ...

... placed in front (the key exhibit was an extra large plastic turtle with ping-pong balls for eggs), one is a fake galleon (made of old floorboards), and the other contains some disused naval machinery to look at.    If only we had ...

... I had a seafood ho fun. The stall where Dad and I had bought our food was very similar to rest in that it was like a small galleon kitchen with ingredients on one side and cooking wok on the other. You order from the first man who puts all the ingredients ...

... . Originally part of the Roxas Family's hacienda, historical accounts show Punta Fuego as the site of battle between the Spanish Galleon San Diego and the Dutch battleship Mauritius on December 14, 1600. -taken from http://www.puntafuego.com/ Joined ...