Hotel Vile Park

... between the gaps in not so distance mountains.  We're at a Super 8 tonight - no its not a sporting event, but a hotel chain.  We try out a Mexican restaurant - not sure about Mexican food, but the Australians are enthusiastic and give advice on ...

... it's amazing - we just don't want it to be ruined by tourists". I was speaking to one couple, who told me there was a 5* hotel planned there a few years ago but they turned it down - they could make a fortune but they just want to preserve it. There ...

... we had our first honest beer in Australia - $3.50 for a pint instead of $8 or $9!  We stayed for dinner, then checked into our hotel and returned the rental car.  We have to be up at 4:30 tomorrow to get a shuttle to the airport to make our 7:00 ...

Thursday 21 October, 11.08am, Pudi Hotel Hong Kong and Macau, whilst full of Chinese people and strongly influenced by Chinese culture, are not, in the strictest sense of the word, actually Chinese. They are Special Administrative Regions of the People's ...

... go and grabbed a taxi to my hotel, the Hotel Khamvongsa, a lovely guest house (a guesthouse in Laos is a very small hotel) near the Mekong riverfront. (The Mekong River originates in China/Tibet and meanders through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam ...

... up to guard against mosquitos. Sometime in the morning I stirred. I glanced out and maybe 10m away a shape moved, silhouetted by the hotel driveway lights. It move silently up to the car where it sniffed around the dirty plates before moving on. In my ...

... someone came through to us, saw K asleep on the sofa, and asked (although it sounded more like a suggestion) ''you stay in hotel tonight?". We both sighed loudly and nodded in an almost resigned fashion, as though we had failed in our attempt to stay ...

... of the free Internet for awhile. We headed to dinner at a restaurant overlooking the water, a very short walk from our hotel. The restaurant, Levanta, was recommended in a Newsday article that mom had sent us awhile ago. Dinner was an interesting ...

... we meandered through the Gion area before dinner. Our reward: ice-cold Kirin and local grub. Renu and I both liked Kyoto a lot. Our hotel happened to be in the perfect location right in the city center. Our first night we walked down a cute, narrow street ...

... Auld Lang Syne - had to be done.....Im not sure anyone understood a word of it though. The last day and we headed to a hotel in Singpanburi - was  relatively cheap hotel but at least the shower/bath was hot and we had a proper bed for the ...

... we figured we would need to drink bottled water.  First night in Tirana, we got a bottle out of the mini fridge because the hotel desk clerks couldn’t understand what we were asking.  Next day we had asked Klodi and he said it was safe to ...

... to Mc Donalds for lunch. and KFC for dinner....there was a massive thunder storm and all the electricity went out in the hotel (still a poor excuse though lol) The next day we started my most anticipated adventure...our trip to the amazon jungle!!! i ...

... standard room. I left my things and decided to go shopping. I walked about 5 minutes to the very impressive mall next to my hotel that had every store from Old Navy to Armani and everything in-between, in every price you can imagine. It was very hard ...

... time consuming and tiresome drive into Melbourne.  Traffic was heavy and the road network challenging.  I did eventually find the hotel and the poor women on reception probably thinks I am stalking her and I went back about six times with ...

... arrived in Hong Kong at 5.00pm the next day. I slept and David watched all the movies. We arrived and checked into our lovely hotel then headed out for some food and to force ourselves to stay awake. We enjoyed a great Vietnamese meal and a few local ...

... ; Not only do they feel that a balloon in the form of a naked man is art but they also have what looks like a car park shelter and they call that "art" as well.  It evidently cost their community about $1.5 million to boot.  Whatever! ...

... "hotel" I was staying at (now I had 2 inches of mattress compared to a 2 cm thick layer of blankets at the "hotel"). My first encounter with the Chinese was the boarder check. Chinese guards walked up and down the train aisle while people were ...

... to Ruth for loaning me those river bags - they compress great, and I happily fill one with the most vile smelling clothes I can find, to be left with the hotel.  I do not look forward to opening that oyster shell upon my return, but thats a problem ...

... Vomit of retailing architecture and signage. Thank God we live in the city and don't have to do this daily! Even the Hilton hotel's store was closed at 9 p.m. downtown. Someone sent us on a wild goose chase to a bookstore in the tourist trap "Pier," a ...

... different to the gourmet fussilli drenched in tomato sauce Anjli had been whipping up!!!!     Day 5: 12KM - Campamento Chileno to Hotel Torres via Torres del Paine       We'd decided against waking up at the ungodly hour of 3am ...