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Trip Around the World, 1994.
A Travel Blog by jetdude
... you argue with me about what I buy or not ?, those crooks are ripping me off and you are helping them !. Yes, the merchants in some countries in the world can do that, on top of that, without their authorization, the sent merchandise, cannot be returned ...
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Night Skyline & Peninsula Hotel
A Travel Blog entry by londone7 from Hong Kong, China
... extravagant displays? I then went back to the hostel in Chunk King Mansion at the foot of Nathan Road. Many of the pakistani merchants were still open, playing bollywood tunes and selling curries, mithai (sweets), samosas, spices, and dvds. I got a 1/2 ...
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Sightseeing in the Ancient City & 5* Spa Package!
A Travel Blog entry by kaydeetravels from Hoi An, Vietnam
... all acts on stage singing a Vietnamese version of Auld Lang Syne... brilliantly entertaining! Amused, we continued onto a merchants house - (4) Tan Ky House (meaning 'progress shop'). The 18th century wooden shop-house, where 7 generations had lived, was ...
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This is Hanoi - Brace yourself
A Travel Blog entry by becpowell from Hanoi, Vietnam
... which companies are reliable, particularly with many copycats trading under a reputable companies name. I also visited a beautifully restored old merchants house - a piece of art in itself the way it had been done up. When I stopped for lunch I ...
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Dodging traffic
A Travel Blog entry by david.aileen from Hanoi, Vietnam
... ; Another place we tried, 69, came via a recommendation from the Lonely Planet. The building is an old, converted merchants house with a strong Vietnamese menu with many Hanoi specialties. We had the some duck roasted in 5 spices (a delicious ...
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Fun city, pity about the Hanoing traffic!
A Travel Blog entry by thesunchasers from Hanoi, Vietnam
... second day, I exhausted Mark by taking him on a walking tour of the old quarter, taking in various temples, a restored Chinese merchants house from the 19th Century and the market complete with live crabs, bags of live frogs and gigantic catfish. We ...
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I feel like Cinderella
A Travel Blog entry by ellenwillow from Tallinn, Estonia
... . It is in the middle of the Old Town, as well as being one of the oldest hotels in Tallin. It's an old Russian merchants house & is beautifully decorated. I was lucky enough to be upgraded to a junior suite, which is quite luxurious. It gets dark ...
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Hanoi Rocks.
A Travel Blog entry by katandewan from Hanoi, Vietnam
... morning) we slept till about midday before venturing out into Vietnam's capital city. We visited an old Chinese style Vietnamese merchants house which has been restored and opened as a museum to the public Hanoi has a couple of small lakes ...
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The tailors of Hoi An
A Travel Blog entry by rachel_john from Hoi An, Vietnam
... to 5 places of our choice in and around the old town. Firstly we stop off at a 200 year old chinese merchants house, Tan Ky House, which is still lived in by the 7th generation. The style is mainly Chinese with some Japanese and European influences. ...
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South to Singapore
A Travel Blog entry by retired_robert from Melaka, Melaka State, Malaysia
... guided tour so we go to the Café 1511. The tour is good as it’s a lovely old ornate Chinese Merchants house, which is what our hotel would have been. Baba = Male. Nyornya= Female of Chinese Malay descent. When the tour finishes we are led through ...
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Islamabad
A Travel Blog entry by jo_and_kenny from Islamabad, Pakistan
... , Hussein, who took us on a tour of the city and took us to places we would never have located such as an old merchants house with amazing hand carved sandalwood doors and panels with an underground mosque. We also saw a 1912 fire station, from the time ...
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HANOI
A Travel Blog entry by smurf from HANOI, Vietnam
... you can buy beautiful crafts, silks, counterfeit money (for burning at Buddhist ceremonies). We also made a stop at an Old Merchants house and Bach Ma Temple (White Horse Temple), a lovely pagoda attended by white-bearded guards sipping tea, commemorates ...
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Hellride to Paradise
A Travel Blog entry by reuben_brown from Pulau Perhentian Kecil, Terengganu, Malaysia
... here. We headed back to the Main Street Jelan Chulia and had some really good coffee in the Yeng Keng Hotel, a restored Chinese merchants house, now a boutique hotel. We likely made the place look a little shabby but we were treated very well by ...
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Northwards...
A Travel Blog entry by anja_taferner from Osaka, Kinki, Japan
... is a snack too, but have not asked - in short, plenty of products that I have never seen before... I also visited an old merchants' house but that was not that interesting except for an old wooden safe with burglar alarm (it makes a sound when it's ...
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Melaka
A Travel Blog entry by leeandcathy from Melaka, Malaysia
... shoe of a shoe. Mid afternoon, we partake of another chocolate brownie, but this time in Restoran Peranakan, a traditional Chinese merchants house. As in a lot of these properties, there is a central small courtyard open to the elements and often ...
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Ouch my wallet part 2
A Travel Blog entry by phil_and_lisa from Hoi An, Vietnam
... pockets rifled by orphans at a place we thought was a temple. We saw another Japanese bridge and looked around an old merchants house where we were actively encouraged to purchase something. Which we didn't. We had a drink in a floating restaurant - ...
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China Beach, farming village, and Hoi An
A Travel Blog entry by magnoliakitties from Hoi An, Vietnam
... and to see some of the sights. Once we completed the cycle tour we walked to the Japanese Bridge and went inside the merchants house. In each of these places the guides showed us the level of flooding which occurs in the town every few years. ...
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Hairy women
A Travel Blog entry by phil_and_lisa from Perfume Pagoda, Hanoi, Vietnam
... a restaurant called Little Hanoi and had the best meal of Vietnam so far. 13th May - A lucky escape! We visited an old Merchants house that has been restored to how it used to be. This was quite interesting but seemed mainly to be a front for ...
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A Shakespearean journey
A Travel Blog entry by jambo from Venice, Italy
... 'P' town and the main setting of abovementioned play; and eventually Venice - where I was immediately set upon by several merchants offering hotel rooms. Venice is the most bizarre place I have ever seen. It is 118 little islands (connected to the ...
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African Capitals and Evocative Islands
A Travel Blog entry by nickers from Zanzibar, Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania
... also has some incredible street food going for it. I had a nightly ritual-sundowners with random travelers I met at the Africa House Hotel, then head to the street food market and gorge myself with marinated meat on a stick (mishkhaki in Swahili), ...
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DaNang and Hoi An
A Travel Blog entry by aniemi from Da Nang and Hoi An, Vietnam
... than an hour. Saw very interesting designs too. We toured a meeting hall and temple built by Chinese immigrants and a merchants house, inhabited by the seventh generation of the family that owned it. It floods every year and then have marks ...
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La Fonda Barranco Jerez De La Frontera
C/ Barranco, 12, Jerez De La Frontera, Costa de la Luz, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands
Intimate, stylish, charming best describes this restored merchants house in the historic centre. Breakfast served on roof terrace in summer.
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