Hotel Washington Colon

Hi There, This travelogue documents our trip from Seattle, Washington, USA to Auckland, New Zealand. We went the long way around, stopping to visit relatives in Oregon, Wisconsin and Connecticut. We headed to Paris in early November, enjoyed Christmas in ...

Tuesday 15th June - Friday 18th June. Colon. Our grand colonial style hotel, the New Washington was completed in 1913. It has retained it's ambience of the past -  magnificent original chandeliers, marble floors and staircases. Bob Hope stayed here ...

... left ear. Boo. All part of the experience though. This week is back to school, with my 21st birthday on Wednesday. The U Washington boys have graciously offered their house for a party in honor of Tama and I's 21st birthdays. She turned 21 on the ...

... go. I got there when they opened. The nice man in the white robe looked at me and said “You have to do this in Washington DC”. So, I took a ten $ cab ride to the University. The U is really way out there somewhere. Not near anything. It is a ...

... away for an hour.  Finally we got on the plane, I waved goodbye to my parents and we were on our way to Washington Dulles airport.  Dulles is insanely huge and confusing.  Add that to the limited time to get to my next flight because of ...

... patio sitting and a lot of punk mallorcan teenagers skateboarding along this road. the road termiates a small george washington monument. ashley and i stayed a small hotel called hotel born that was up a narrow alley from here about a block away. the ...

... .  You get right up close to the panda when it wanders over next to the glass, something you can’t do in Washington. Then, after grabbing a currywurst for lunch, I got on the S-bahn and went to meet Marty for our tour of the Boros ...

... world and is dominated by El Obelisco, the monument to the capital´s founding. The large monument, which is very similar to the Washington Monument, is the focal point of the street that connects the rich of the north to the less advantaged of the south, ...

... , and the history is rich.  But an entire century of romantics went wild over the Alhambra.   Here is Washington Irving around 1837 on the Alhambra under moonlight:"…We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere; there is a serenity of ...

... as well as the Plaza de San Nicolas where I stopped on my walk yesterday. Walked down a side path that led to the Washington Irving Hotel which is named after the US ambassador to Spain in the early 1800's, although he's better known as the author of the ...

... , stood under the palm trees, saw two guards standing at attention beside the door. I could never get this close to the Capitol in Washington DC. What does this mean, as I stand in the heart of the fourth-largest city in the world? What does it mean about ...

... Tower, we were reminded of both Central Park in New York City and the area between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. combined into one. The garden itself was so long that it only added to the anticipation of arriving ...

... up call than my caffeine shots. I was surprised at how beautiful the Arc was. It was nothing like the lame copy in Washington Square Park. On second thought, I shouldn't even be comparing the two. This one was well thought out, well designed, well ...

... from California'. Nevertheless - all was good and I learned much about the fact that world level life exists way outside of Medina, Washington USA. I had, for the first time inm y life, met and lived with [to a small degree] people from several ...

... of breath and and widen my eyes to take in as much as possible.  I remember a similar response when I visited the Washington National Cathedral and saw the Penetcost window near the narthex and it literally appeared to me to be on fire.   ...

... roll up to the plane for some strange reason my son and I had the great desire to pretend we were Richard Nixon leaving Washington and flash everybody the V hand sign as we step off the plane onto the stairway. Guanacaste, the province in which lies the ...

... et à la place du Congrès où se trouve le majestueux bâtiment du Congrès National bâti sur le modèle du Capitole à Washington DC. Je passe également devant la colonne de Colomb qui se trouve derrière la Casa Rosada et pousse la promenade jusqu'à ...

... around 1330. 22nd Jan 2010: Had breakfast and saw off Dutch Erik who was to catch a plane back to Amsterdam, via Washington later that afternoon. Had a walk round the market and purchased another pair of cheap sunglasses, my 6th pair this trip, after my ...

... America. We shall always remember that on this day, at this historic moment, we were in Merida, Yucatan. Since we were not in Washington, DC, the best we could hope for was to see the event on television. The question was where to go. Since Merida was ...