Hotel Miranda

... dia de pantanal foi dedicado à Estrada Parque: almoçamos no Passo do Lontra, percorremos uma trilha suspensa às margens do Rio Miranda. Larissa enjoou de fotografar Carcarás. Depois fomos até a Fazenda São João, em busca de araras azuis. Aí foi o ...

... , and would love to have stayed another night. However, we had to depart and so headed for the next town of Miranda for the night. Our evening meal in the hotel was pretty good, and even though we didn't place an order the food just kept coming. NB. Some ...

... one called Fenner's, so we went.  On the way there we stopped for some baklava and tea- I got chocolate while Miranda got original.  The baklava wasn't very good, but the company was excellent!  The shop keeper and other customer in the ...

... can be fed, viewed, ridden and bathed in the river with. I guess we were there around 4 hour involved in these activities. Miranda had a great time, partaking in all activities. I on the other hand was self-designated camera man. We had a very scary ride ...

... onto it.  We drove along the East Coast from Auckland (the coastline in amazing, everywhere here is so beautiful) to Miranda, halfway to the Coromandel region which has some great national parks and hot water springs.  We've stopped at a ...

... ; Balci didn't want to fly, not his kind of thing, Aug and Tom had a blast. BA has so far been boozin and eating.  Miranda would kill me if she knew that I went to the Hotel Faena after having refused to go with her when she was ...

... layers watching them.  Isaac had to be coaxed out, but then they enjoyed a bit of TV in the TV room whilst Mark sorted out a hotel stay and after this it was a meal of leftovers.  I had booked the spa for the family, but Mark and I delayed ...

... to Mila to behold the view. On our return picked up pizza from 'Freeshop at Stazione Central (paid 10c for a bag). Chilled out  after a hot shower and beer and pizza back at the hotel. Looking forward to the next journey to Dusseldorf, ...

... work meeting in San José the next day…. He did a 2 ½ hour one-way drive for an all day meeting while Sydney, Miranda and Christi logged more beach time and general hanging out.  Nice to have a down day.   Friday, we moved north again ...

... .  See photo. Once we all met up at the church, we headed up the road on horse or on foot... and dropped off Miranda (who was riding with Birgitte on her horse) and Carrol and Greg... along with Camilla (16yr old daughter) and Joshua (3yr old son) to ...

... coming soon!  I slept pretty well, but I woke up about every 2 hours when we stopped at rest stops.  Miranda didn’t sleep that well, so when the hotel guy picked us up in a car at the bus stop and took us back to the hotel all she wanted ...

... ’s cheese) mushrooms, spinach, and pumpkin.  I’m not a huge fan of Italian, but this was heavenly!  Miranda got chicken with vegetables, which tasted a lot like Chinese.  For dessert Miranda got hot chocolate cake, which had ...

... and other offerings from travellers wishing to be kept safe on the road. The route down the other side of the Cuesta Miranda pass was nothing short of astonishing. The road wound its way round above huge precipices past hillsides covered in huge cacti. ...

... Heritage Museum. The thought of a plane museum got Joe all fired up and we decided to head straight there. Just then, our friend Miranda called us to find out where we were! (Miranda had several classes with Joe at Guelph and has been working at the ...

... take them all with us, bad bad error. So we set off out into the streets of Quito, this was where I made my second mistake, I allowed Miranda to take control of the map, she proceeded to get us very lost and took us on a massive detour, to be fair to her ...

... Arabic, so they gave us free appetizers (small plates of beets and sausage and nuts) as a gift.  I love North Africans.  Miranda paid for lunch.  Thanks, Miranda! After lunch, I began my Tour de Paris, France.  I started at the ...