Metro Plaza

Traffic at Grand Via near Plaza de España Metro station is still heavy and moving at a snail pace. Crowds are seen on almost major intersections waiting impatiently to cross the streets. City street lights and billboards lit up the area and illuminate ...

... We left home at about noon and walked to the light rail station, Pozuelo Oeste, near our home.  Once on the Metro, we made our way to the Plaza de Espana stop. When we emerged from the Metro, we found ourselves at the corner of Gran Via and the ...

... walk over the top of the Rambla to the other platform and use our electronic tickets to enter again. But we found that the metro protects bonehead tourists from their own mistakes. When we went to put our tickets into the portals on the other side, the ...

... 'fera, podríamos decir que hemos cumplido mucho mas de lo planificado originalmente, y gracias a habernos perdido miserablemente en el Metro de Moscú!!!!!, por si les sirve como aviso de navegantes, no hay carteles escritos en un idioma legible para ...

... I made my way to the center by metro and found myself right in St Stephen's plaz in front of the cathedral.  as I exited the metro I found that they had built it right over old ruins...how cool.  It seemed like going to the top of the bell tower ...

... a chai tea glacee avec soja(soy). That is my non caffeinated version of home in a cup J So I walked through the big plaza that has restaurants, fountains, lunching French people, the old opera behind me and the Rhone River to my right. It was marvelous ...

... walking around and checking out some wats & monasteries, and then we returned to Opera, the Italian place on the fountain plaza, for dinner. The meal was excellent, despite the fact that it was expensive by local standards. We slept late on Sunday, ...

... city, this one would proudly be its wife. So delicate with a million spires reaching up. Absolutely breathtaking. Now having just exited the metro station, one I am absolutely amazed by what I see and look like I just saw god, two, I am carrying my huge ...

... but the PC's are crappy and the camera I'm using an EOS 300d uses cf and is hard to transfer images... anyways Caught the metro into the city, the underground system is the best ive seen anywhere in the world. its sparkling clean, it goes everywhere, ...

... being nice... First thing on the agenda was to visit my school and sort out my classes and homestay.  I rode the metro (subway), no problems.  It reminded me of Japan.  Subways seem to be the same everywhere.  Ticket was 400pesos, ...

... nbsp; I wanted a Pisco Sour for breakfast, but settled for Nescafe. This time we went north from our hostal (away from the metro/plaza Italia) towards Cerro San Cristobal and the big white Mary on the hill.  We walked through the food/bar ...

... student flights are all return out of LAX) and all the accommodation that I needed outside of the tour. In LA I booked into the Metro Plaza Hotel in the downtown area and in NY I booked into the Beacon Hotel on 75th and Broadway. All hotels in New ...

Los Angeles - Anaheim I checked-out of the Metro Plaza Hotel shortly after 9 a.m to catch the train down to Anaheim. It was a frustrating journey to start the day, as we sat on the train for 1½ hrs waiting for it to be refuelled and restocked (surely ...

... until we reached the downtown area, at which point I got my first taste of a Los Angeles traffic jam!! My hotel, the Metro Plaza, was just a short walk from the station, and although surrounded by some dodgy looking places, the hotel itself was very ...

... friends) who has been living in Chile and teaching English for the last year. We went for dinner in Centro, took the metro, and had a great Churrasco Italiano sandwich (meat pattie, tomato and avocado).  The Chileans love avocado!  I also tried ...

... flight lasted six and a half hours as we descended into Zurich. It was a pleasant experience to go through the airport express metro from the aerobridge and hear the recorded welcome sound of cows in the metro ride lasting half a minute. After clearing ...

... , the heart of Chile. It was the first construction made in Santiago, planned by Pedro de Valdivia himself. The plaza is extremely beautiful and surrounded by important buildings such as the Correio Central and the Catedral Metropolitana. One thing ...

... Hotel is not an easily accessible siren.  Her signs are everywhere but in the subterranean world of the Washington D.C. metro, they point in any number of mismatched directions.  Up, down, left, right, handicapped elevator, desperately ask ...

We spent our first four nights in Copacabana at the Plaza hotel. We made the most of the luxury of having a waderobe, safe, TV and minibar in our room and own shower room as we are going to be in hostels in shared dorms for the most of our 2 months. ...

... and metro and central barriers blocking our way. When we did find the underpass we went through the security (all underpasses and metro lines had them) which is no bother as they aren’t really interested in tourists and their cameras!), under the ...

... every now and then. LOTS of small cars and even more motorcycles and mopeds. When we pulled up to our hotel, the Hotel Catalunya Plaza in Placa Espanya though, I finally felt like we were in the Barcelona I pictured.      Our ...