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Janekdailey's Great Adventure
A Travel Blog by janekdailey
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Travel Day
A Travel Blog entry by baseballkt from Syracuse, New York, United States
... of a barn. We also passed a number of towns in which many Illinois towns were named after: for example, we passed Geneva, Batavia, Aurora, Cherry Valley, Seneca, Morris, and Oswego, NY. Quick history lesson-when Swedish Immigrants settled in this country, ...
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Week One in Turkey
A Travel Blog entry by gemway from Istanbul, Turkey
... survived the Cairo Air flight and arrived in Istanbul. It was so nice to be greeted at the airport and chauffeur driven to the Hilton. We were so shocked to see that Istanbul was a major cosmopolitan city and so different to Cairo, given that it is only ...
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Excuse me, but how do you eat this contraption?!
A Travel Blog entry by baseballkt from York Beach, Maine, United States
... It was still cloudy and a bit rainy, but not nearly as bad as Cape Cod would have been. It reminded me of a northeast Lake Geneva. Very nice and clean, nestled right up to the ocean. The sand is very fine but dark in color-medium brown with specks of ...
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Sai Gon: There is no Victory in War
A Travel Blog entry by chiapoe from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
... Army (communist army). The earliest exhibit properly catalogues the Indian-partition reminding killings that occurred after the Geneva Conference. As mentioned in an earlier post, the Geneva Conference in 1954 marked the formal end to French ...
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Visiting with Uncle Ho
A Travel Blog entry by brookeandchris from Hanoi, Vietnam
... pilots that were shot down during the war. It was crazy to see that the American Senator John McCain spent some time at the "Hanoi Hilton" (they had it very easy here) after his plane was shot down. They still have the air force uniform he was wearing at ...
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At Captain George's
A Travel Blog entry by wanderingblonde from Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
... beer) for a few days. As we ate, George regaled us with tales of the seven years he spent working for the Hilton in Switzerland. In his free time, he traveled all over Europe, staying at Hiltons for free and illegally using railpasses past ...
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When In Doubt, Take A Bath
A Travel Blog entry by the_stamms from Budapest, Hungary
... just can't let this one go), I saw a recent comment President Bush made on some of the laws created by the Geneva conventions. To paraphrase, he said he didn't understand the definition of treating prisoners inhumanely. "What does that mean?" he said. ...
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Sightseeing in Belgrade
A Travel Blog entry by fatduck from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
... bit of a F-117 fighter they shot down. They also displayed some bits of American cluster bombs to prove that Nato broke the Geneva convention in their attacks on the Serb defences. Nato bastards. And they had some graphite wire in bombs designed to ruin ...
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Hanoi: Vietnamese history, language and cooking
A Travel Blog entry by chessdennis from Hanoi, Vietnam
... Lo prison that we visited on Monday that we did lots of research on Monday evening. The prison was ironically nicknamed 'Hanoi Hilton' because of the harsh conditions and brutal treatment. We feel cheated by the (now, after research) blatant propaganda in ...
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Rationale, Deal Notes, and General Observations
A Travel Blog entry by dyer0930 from Denver, Colorado, United States
... is more expensive, b.) United doesn’t fly there, and c.) we knew we wanted to road-trip some anyway. We originally considered Geneva (5 hour drive to Marseille) or Zurich (8 hours) – we didn’t really want to fly into Paris, as we had ...
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Day 40 Avignon - Cotignac
A Travel Blog entry by cust4 from Cotignac, Provence, France
... where our first stop was! The owners Francis and Laurie are wonderful welcoming people who have spent all their working lives in Geneva but bought this place 12 years ago and have renovated both their house and this villa over the years as well as ...
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A Somber Anniversary: the Hike of a Lifetime
A Travel Blog entry by jackw from Gstaad, Swiss Alps, Switzerland
... village at the base of the Alps. Gstaad is relatively famous for hosting some very ritzy clientele including Paris Hilton, Roger Moore, and others within its quiet borders. This weekend was no exception as country singer Miranda Lambert is ...
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Tractor Pullen Chick!
A Travel Blog entry by shazzasheila from Murzelen, Switzerland
... the OBH at new years too and i might have met him if i wasn't busy hanging with my mate Brodie Holland and his missus Paris Hilton. So to cut a long story short, he and his family are tractor pullen freaks and he took me to my first Swiss pull. Sam ...
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Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva
19, Quai du Mont - Blanc, (formerly Le Palace Hilton Geneva), Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
... closed and some details will need to get done but I'm definetely going to stay there again when returning to Geneva! The Hilton is now a Kempinski, but only the name has changed... from MarvinHC I have stayed in this hotel several times ...
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