Ibis Reading

 ....   At 07:40 we are on our way to the station. It would never win an architectural award. It's a lump of concrete and glass attached to an old station. I don’t think the King was impressed with it.   Costa is ...

... "). As both a suspenseful and poignant story and an absorbing historical chronicle, this novel has bestseller potential and should become a reading group favorite as well. Dai, Rilke, Ina Sinjie (author) Balzac and the Little Seamstress (K) Balzac and the ...

... . I checked in with Air Ivoire, and went through the departure formalities, had a cold beverage in the restaurant, and started reading a very interesting book by Robert Young Pelton. He’s a journalist who covers war zones and he writes a guidebook ...

... , if you turn around in the bathroom you flush the toilet, turn the sink taps on and have a shower. It is not as grand as the Reading Ibis, but it does the job. As we leave the hotel the sun comes out and we seek some shade as we make the climb to the old ...

... at the airport, which slowed the take-off frequency. We soon rose through the low clouds, however, into brilliant sunlight. I started reading a new Dorothy Dunnet series: the House of Niccolo, which I'm finding to be very well written.  The skies ...

Daniel here: Well you are probably sick of reading after our flurry of blog updates but here goes another one! We arrived into Amman and stepped outside the airport to a scene of chaos with cars everywhere and beeping horns.  People picking up their ...

... . He did indeed send me back to the terminals, where I met up with a bus to at bus stop 14A to Oxford. Reading off my two page instruction sheet from Stephanie, my study abroad representative, I told the bus driver taking our luggage that I intended ...

... that it is the place to stay. Our time in Thailand was now coming to an end and it was time to move on. After reading up on travelling to Cambodia, from Bangkok to Siem Reap by bus, we decided that flying was the safest option. The border crossing is ...

... book stores along the way and between the two found one copy of "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest". On the flight here I finished reading "The girl who played with fire" so I gave away my copy to a girl sitting near me who was reading "The ...

... some time back; a novel about the great battle of the Spartans against the Persians at Thermopylae. The book is required reading at some US military institutions, and some unit commanders in Iraq are requiring new arrivals from basic training to read it ...

... and soldiers. Once the performance was complete, we decided to watch the parade from the top of the main gate ((My husband is reading the Song of Ice and Fire series and got to use his newly acquired vocabulary of castle terms giving me the grand ...

... through their golf bags. Security was a long line but people are finally getting smarter about preparing for the security, meaning they are reading the signs that tell them to take out their liquids, take off their coats, take out their laptops, etc. So ...

... the Belgium border. It certianly was an experience for us both driver ( left hand drive, wrong side of the road) and passager ( reading the map and telling the driver when he was too close to the gutter). We visited 3 cemertry here that Australian were ...

... we stop for a liquid refreshment then continue over the bridge to the Ibis on the right bank. It’s fairly new and similar to Reading. The air conditioning is put on "max" to cool us. Down the road there is a tram stop with a machine to buy tickets. ...

... with girls scantily dressed in advertising their wares. Most look really bored and often just stand there either primping or preening, reading a magazine or talking to the girl next door.  You feel as though you cant really stare and you walk by as ...

... , drawing the eye to a portrait of Joćo V (the founder). The bookcases are intricate Chinese lacquer and the reading tables inlaid with rosewood, ebony and jacaranda. Elegant galleries are reached by delicate rolling ladders, mosaic floors and trompe ...

... how much I hate that bloody airline and by the time we got to the door I was breathing fire. I did however know from reading about the Singapore culture, that they were a very polite and helpful bunch, so thought better of screeching at the poor little ...

... hit with a bill from then for all the time I have been here ..times 3 baht a minute for non guests..." Oh no, Im just reading old mail and checking my calender" I smile sweetly. She gives me a dirty stare and moves on to swat more flies. Geez...now ...

... , all the way on the other side of the city, thus wasting even more of our already short day. I spent the flight reading through the 4 newspapers British Airways offered each person, I'm very impressed with the Times, unlike the others it has actual news ...

... of happenings in the church and gave them greetings from church members in other area. During announcements two children gave a short reading from the Bible first reading the passage in French and then translating it into their native language. The ...