Hotel Rosary Garden

... english (go figure)   After we got off the train we found a taxi and took a CRAAAZY ride through the city!!  Our hotel is just outside Firenze in a quiet/quaint area with a shopping mall (Ok more like the italian version of Wal-mart but cleaner ...

... of the city from the cupola was stunning but spoiled somewhat by the smog. The roof boasted a souvenir shop crammed with postcards, rosary beads, holy pictures, holy key chains and other religious artefacts to numerous to mention. When we descended to the ...

... however I regained my driving confidence along the way. I found that I drove much better unaccompanied and without the clicking of rosary beads from my navigator. Later in the afternoon Margaret was relaxing on the porch when she noticed that a lamb had ...

... 20 lanes spread across four separate roads. A strip of land divides each road. One could build a substantial house and garden on each without disturbing anyone. The monitor blinks a 30 second countdown for pedestrians crossing the middle section though ...

... a Bethlehem market, with stands selling all items necessary for ones Christmas Nativity set - right down to the vegetables to 'plant' in the garden.  It was a semi-Christmas market - and I was happy to peek at it!  We entered the San Jose Chapel ...

... . The restoration work was said to have progressed slowly but the facade, the main building, the walkway and the observatory roof garden were faithfully restored after one and a half years.   At present, the fort houses the DOT office, an open-air ...

... between monks. Protestants actually don’t believe that this place is Jesus’s tomb but that his tomb resides in the Garden of Gethsemane on a mountain shaped like a skull. Coming to this place made me realise that the Catholics seems to have ...

... and pagodas, the ginormous town gate and the head abbot's temple where we encountered our first raked gravel garden. After sunset we settled into our temple lodging. We stayed in a comparatively cheap temple called Haryo-in. There were ...

... year, thousands of tourists and pilgrims travel to Fatima, and its fame is due to the visions of Our Lady of the Rosary by three shepard children. Between May and October of 1917, the children witnessed several apparitions of her. The last witness on ...

... not, the first one I came to was "Roy Stoltz" (my mother's maiden name.) In their honor I said a decade of the rosary and, of course, took many, many pictures. We ended up the day actually standing on Omaha Beach (I scooped up some ...

... that price. Anyways, I'm happy to report that it probably was the best mango I've ever had. Thankfully! We continued through the garden to the Place de Concorde. This is where the king used to behead prisoners. The guillotine is no longer there, ...

... , but quickly 3 others are joining me. No english spoken, but big smiles. :-) The man next to me started to hum a prayer, rosary (chapelet) in hand, and it sounded very mystical to me. Their food arrived before mine. Fives plates: one with salad and four ...

... taxi to the Sundays Sanctuary Resort and Spa - our home for the next 15 nights. It is a very nice place hidden in a tropical garden. We had a 'mountain (building site) view' room - a little rustic, but clean and spacious - a design based on earth and ...

... holiday destination like no other.   Right across the coastline of Davao City lies the Island of Samal, named as the Island Garden City,  a place of harmony and serenity, it is located at the heart of Davao Gulf. This idyllic place has ...

... high as we set off. Buoyed by shopping expedition as we reached the path. Carolyn gets her new stick, Bern finds rosary beads, April and Mary looking for their fellow pilgrims. A pattern had been established (always look in the shops first). We ...

... , thinking of places to explore on my next stroll and for future meals.  Tomorrow, I'll likely be back in the Luxembourg Garden, where I've been going at least three times a week since I arrived on the first of April.  Sailing boats on the pond ...

... addition to the Italian couple came for Christmas and arrived a little later than us. We ate lots of fruit from the garden, mainly bananas and small pineapples (which are much sweeter than ones we get at home), and for Kelly and I the ...