Hotel Korona

... headed out to a restaurant to treat ourselves without having to work too much for our food!  We went to the restaurant inside Hotel Korona, a couple of blocks from where we are staying.  The place is superb.  brand new and modern, with an ...

... the multitude of old, elaborate buildings is the number of money changers (as the Czech Republic has its own currency – Korona) and the plethora of places selling Beer.  I had been suffering withdrawal from not getting any news and was ...

Today was my first full day in Greece. My hotel is small...and a bit shady, but it will do for three weeks. The beach is another block away, there is little sand, but still a beautiful beach with docks, fishermen, boats, and plenty of small cafes. We got ...

... city by night, which I think is where it is at its most spectacular. It takes us sometime to come to terms with the Czech Money, Korona.  At about 1-15 AUD or 1-27 GBP we get 2000 K notes from the teller machine and appear to spend 100's on snacks ...

... that our bus was fixed at this point, but this turned out to be a lie - it broke down with us inside of it, at our hotel.  So, another walk around Brasov.   I'm happy to report that my hangover was mostly gone by this point, because we began a ...

... for a trip to the Parliament building Az Ország Háza (literally, House of the Nation) to see the Hungarian Crown (Szent István Korona or here  or here)  St. Stephen was the first Christian king of Hungary circa 1000 A.C.E. We met at ...

... about the state of the upholstery! My favorite part of the palace (it's divided up into several different museums) was the Tre Korona Museum. It's down in the basement and it's the parts of the old palace that survived the fire. Some of the rooms ...