Hotel President Split

... 0.15% Korean 1.05% other Demonym Chinese Government Single-party state, nominal Marxist-Leninist socialist state[5][a] - President (and CPC General Secretary) Hu Jintao - Premier Wen Jiabao - Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo - ...

... ;     After a long day driving north up the coast, we have arrived at our Hotel President in Solin, a small town just outside of Split.  The sun is beginning to shine, so we hope we can see the Diocletian Palace this ...

... to admit defeat and use bolt cutters to cut the padlock.  Soooooo embarrassing.  I missed the first course of dinner and had to catch up. Meal at the hotel was Pumpkin & Zucchini Risotto, tender Beef and Gnocchi followed by Apple ...

... when Torrijos and Colonel Martinez instigated a coup. Subsequently Colonel Martinez was exiled to Florida and Torrijos became President of Panama. Manuel Noriega then replaced Torrijos as Commandante of Chitré Province. Torrijos stepped down as ...

... a park in the world. We saw some old ruins that were built in early A.D. as well (I think it was around 200-700 A.D.). We also saw the President's Palace here in Lima as well. Melanie and I sat on the top of the bus and we could see great! We took tons of ...

... our way to the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County.  We had reservations that night in Buellton - home of the most famous Split Pea Soup restaurant in the U.S. (Or maybe the world).  If anyone saw the movie Sideways, there were many scenes ...

... club with an outdoor garden.  Scallop and seaweed soup, spring rolls, and some noodle dish .  Delicious. Once near our hotel we split briefly.  Nina and I planned to head back and shower while Amanda went to buy a bathing suit.  Nina ...

... if this last part is simply colorful embellishment or what but, what we do know is that Army General Lucius D. Clay (Retired), President Kennedy's Special Advisor in West Berlin, was not amused with the initial actions of the East Germans. He decided to ...

... a good thing that the elevator was working!! Another picture taking takes place at the Mansudae Grand Monument, an overdimensional bronze figure of President Kim Il Sung, we come here as the locals do, with a bunch of  flowers, as a matter of ...

... Marilyn Monroe (not true), which made it so that she didn't believe me when I told her that it was actually named for President Monroe (true, I think).] During rest period, we made our way to the hotel pool, which was beautiful. The hotel is all glass ...

... was a constant discussion, not even usually instigated by us.  The people are obviously very disenchanted with the current President, Mahinda Rajapakse, who apparently is using his position to feather his own nest, and that of all his extended ...

... away from Middle East peace talks because the root cause of terrorism was not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and President Bush’s strategy of liberating the people of the Middle East from their tyrannical dictatorships in order to ...

... was back on the truck for the next country: Zimbabwe. Another $60 to get in (which I'm certain goes straight to the president and his cronies) and another profession. I toyed with putting BBC reporter but as British journalists are banned from the country ...

... or governmental administrative site. We were given a guided tour around, in the process seeing rooms including the former president's bedroom, military bunker and even his party room with dance floor (but unfortunately no mirrorball or Luther Vandross). ...

... are three main parties, the ruling one of which has been in power for some time. You can only serve for 2 terms as president, a total of 10 years. The recent elections highlighted a few issues for a lot of people, when electorates or regions were counted ...

... -stabilised buildings in New York. Apparently some of the long-term tenants haven’t had a rent hike since Eisenhower was president. Not surprisingly, property is quite expensive here - I checked out some prices in a real estate agent’s ...

... became PM, with the PNU leader already President, but they want to change it tp a more American system with just a President, or something like that, and the main discussions were about abortion and whether an issue concerning all Muslims should be ...

... I know!  Split 5 and 6 and $5 on 11 .. lucky numbers in case you are wondering, why? Long story (right Jade J) Why split 5 and 6… another long story.  Anyway!  The ball lands on 5 and I win $150NZ YAHOO!  You should have seen ...

... was sent in to further negotiate a cease fire, but what happened next would shock the world.  April 6th, 1994: The Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana is assassinated as his plane is shot down in approach to the capital of Kigali. No one knows to this ...

... -Sandinista civil war in 1990, when they rejected Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas in favor of the first popularly elected woman President of a Latin American country, although Nica is far from a model of women's rights, being one of only three countries ...

... . It survived as a state governed by a prince or "Mir" for more than 900 years until it was dissolved by President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974. The Nagar Valley, another former princely state which is often mistakenly referred to as part of the ...