Hotel Balzac

... the nearest hotel we could see and asked for a map of the city, so we could find our way around. We eventually found a hotel "Hotel Balzac", yes that was its name. The hotel was a couple of minutes walk to Lake Geneva, one of the largest fresh water ...

... about anything. From time to time it just so happens that I don't. There we were in that midi-coach on our way to the hotel. Me, the lads and the English speaking driver. By the time we got there it was really hot, as the sun was up ...

... and breakfast in a small café a block away, it was time to let my wallet do some talking. Somewhere around this place was Balzac's Shocker store, and if I found that, it would all be over. Luckily for me and my ability to pay for the remainder of the ...

... and got to see a whole bunch of famous dead dudes' graves.  Jim Morrison and Moliere were the highlights.  Balzac was sweet too.  That afternoon we were feeling somewhat lethargic so we collected yet another bottle of cheap wine and ...

... 50 euros is also a rip-off. Foot soreness was still an issue so we went to the nearest non-Starbucks coffee house, called Balzac, which was eerily similar to Starbucks in many ways. Refreshed, we headed for the Jewish Museum and spent a while looking ...

... , Plato, Plutarch, Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, and more recently, the autobiography of US Grant, works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Balzac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Burton (the African explorer not the actor), Edgar Allen Poe, Theodore Roosevelt, and in a ...

... the history behind it. Men that were willing to give up their lives for the freedom of their fellow citizens. I also like Balzac for Rodin's attempt at hiding the rotund figure of the man. We must have spent hours in the old building ...

... outside an opening into the  cemetery was a woman selling maps to its famous artists' and writers’ graves.  Balzac, Chopin, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Max Ernst, Sarah Bernhardt, Marcel Marceau were among the hundreds of ...

... , back at the room, by the time I went to sleep, I finished my fourth - or was it my fifth - book of the trip:  Balzac's "Pere Goriot".  It wasn't as good as his last book that I read, "Cousin Bette".  There was, however, a famous quote of ...

... . Ah, Germany! How I love you. A few of us decided to explore Berlin a bit at night and we had a cup of coffee at Balzac Coffee, where I had visited the year before. The finale of our time in Berlin was held at the bar we had visited the night before, ...

... existentialism over espressos, and one of the city's most famous department store, Au Bon Marché, which was featured in Honoré Balzac's novel "Au Bonheur des Dames", St-Germain is a beautiful area, filled with grand residential buildings, wide ...

... passageways made bet. 17th - 19th centuries complete with horse powered pulleys etc., sculptures made from salt incl. Copernicus, Goethe, Balzac, the 7 dwarves and Pope John Paul II. There are over 40 carved chapels & a fantasic one called 'Blessed ...

... museum we admired ¨The Thinker, Gates of Hell and Balzac¨ sculptures and some of his own private art collection in a grand mansion. Hotel Invalides was built in 1670´s to house veterans and is still used as a hospital today. In the museum is Napoleons ...

... a room at the George Hotel. The George is a bit of a legend in Lviv. It is the oldest hotel in Lviv and was built in 1796. Honore de Balzac, Jean Paul Sartre, Ivan Franko and Maurice Ravel have numbered among its guests, as well as Ewan McGregor and ...