Golden Bay Apartments

... area of 'Surfers Paradise', looking like somewhere that wouldn't be out of place on the busy Spanish costas. High rise apartments, especially the impressive 'Q1' building, were everywhere and when we found a parking spot near a beach, the exit point was ...

... about.  It is an amazingly long sandy beach with great surf, but it is full to overflowing with hi-rise hotels and apartments, particular in the center - Surfers Paradise. So we pressed on to Byron Bay and had our sandwich lunch in our nicely cooled ...

... still has remains of the massive wall that surrounded it when the castle there was still used as a castle rather then tourist apartments. The island castles here are not the massive forts like in Germany and Austria. They are modest compared to those but ...

... of Oyster farmers and fishermen we arrived at the Surprisingly large Cat Ba township with its rows of high rise hotels and apartments lining the busy harbourfront. We stayed the night here in the awful Holiday View Hotel before returning to the boat on ...

... journey before setting off as bus drivers aren't always very helpful. Single journeys were 1.16 EUR and in a week I visited Golden Bay, Mellieha Bay and St Julian's, in addition to Bugibba, where I stayed and Gozo and the Blue Lagoon where I travelled ...

... and I decided to try traditional pastizzis, the most popular and best known culinary export of Malta.   We also visited Golden Bay, one of the island’s sandy beaches. It was one of those beaches described in the brochures as "unspoilt and ...

... trailer behind a farm tractor loading wet tourists in the rain. Decide to possibly do it tomorrow, but in the meanwhile, drive up to Golden Bay and have a look at the other end of the Tasman walking track. On the way back to the main road, take the ...

... Sightseeing”.  We drove through the places we already seen and then we finally saw Mgarr (not exciting).  We saw the Golden Bay which had several big chain resorts, didn’t look great with an ok beach.  We drove through a lot of ...

... Nancy, Noah (7), and Sam (5) joined us on the evening of the 29th. Ben and Nancy and their sons live in the Repulse Bay Apartments with Kevin, Karen, and Nate, who just got two best times at his latest swimming meet. School and work were closed so they ...

...   Our accommodation here is the Village Garden Hotel in Kalamaki, a small cluster of very nicely appointed studios and apartments set amidst lush gardens. The apartments are built in a traditional rustic style, no white washed concrete here. They ...

... too, runners, joggers, cyclists, skateboarders - I even saw a motorised skateboard.  The road I needed to get back to the apartments was about a third of the way along, so not a short walk.  I think I`ve probably done 7-8km today. The beaches ...

... the plunge since he seemed like a very trustworthy guy with authentic carpets. We figured since we will both be moving into new apartments within the next few months they would be well worth it. We are getting the carpets sent home and are looking forward ...

... built on the sides of steep hills.  Friday we awoke to sun and fog- a beautiful sight of the Bay. We drove into San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge-a stunning sighton our way to Golden Gate Park. The adventurer in me took a right instead of ...

... had a lovely relaxing break at Tin Can Bay before continuing on to the lovely Rainbow Beach where we spent a while strolling on the golden sands, defiantly a place to return to in the future me thinks. Back into the car and within an hour we had reached ...

... , then I found the bus no problem, 9 reals to the Marriot on Av Atlantica, then a short taxi ride of 10 reals to Jucati Apartments.  Pretty cheap option.  The Cariocas, residents of Rio, say that 'God made the world in six days, the seventh he ...

... carriage parked next to the station. The St Ives Bay SK2 (www.railholiday.co.uk) is a railway carriage divided into two holiday apartments. We had the West end of the carriage, which can sleep 6 but is nice and spacious for two. There are four rooms: a ...

... to the tram entrance, via a slight wrong turn which had us on the steep ascent through Expat Land - some phenomenal skyrise apartments - at which point Erin started to reconsider the intelligence of wearing new knee high leather boots.  So it was ...

... ) and running on rocks!! We went down at lunch time, and did a bit of shopping in the city.   We went to the Golden Acre, but were sadly a bit outnumbered there!    We moved on to the V & A waterfront to the scratch patch, ...

... ) and therefore does not look directly out onto the Atlantic. There is a bridge designed by the same guy who designed the Golden Gate (although personally I think it looks more like the Bay Bridge) but it is a beautiful span, and ...

... of the rental money. This was the previous lesson that was now driving me to ensure that we were comfortably warm. More emails, some apartments not available, some 'will contact me back' (yeh, but don't hold your breath'). As a tourist abroad you're fair ...