Park Plaza Country Hall

... After a drink we visit ‘La Lonja’, an old priory with fabulous spiralling columns in its great gothic hall. Back in the plaza we people watch in the late afternoon sunshine before relaxing and then changing for Christmas Eve. The streets are ...

... all really fresh - when you get in you can smell the fish - it's funny but that feels like you're in a foreign country smelling fish in a market hall.  :-) The Cathedral complex is amazing as well - you need to go up to the tower - you'll have an ...

... it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most of us and negotiating some prices, we bought our tickets and entered La Plaza de Toros very excited for one of Spain's most famous spectacles. I'd seen one bullfight before in Mexico, but I was very ...

... Euro postcard in the gift shop.  So basically we only took pictures in those grand buildings.  Next, we go to the city hall plaza to take more pictures, and we bought some gelato (after getting lost to find gelato :P).  For lunch, we had ...

... around the centre. One was supposedly an antiques market, but as Kat commented, looked more like a car boot sale. Another, Plaza Espana, was very pretty, the street inset with tiles and adorned with mosaics and tiled seats. Matt was particuarly taken ...

... our eyes adjusted - scary. We then made our way to the botanical garden which is home to the zoo but ended up walking past Diamond Plaza Department Store where Rich had read there was a cinema. It was hidden on the 13th floor - Lotte Cinema - awesome. We ...

... was a very interesting pictorial called the vault where high resolution cameras document the back rooms of various musuems throughout the country, Like a scene out of Night at the Musuem, you could really appreciate the depth of what goes on behind the ...

... Village which the guide would inform us has great nightlife and outrageous property values and rents. We drove by Washington Square Park and City Hall before arriving at the stop for Ground Zero. None of us really wanted to check it out. After all, it is ...

... at Times Square. Can't remember the names of the show but enjoyed both of them. Went to: Flatiron Building Central Park Plaza Hotel Bloomingdales Rockefeller Centre - watched the ice skating St Patricks Cathedral Chrysler Building Radio City Music Hall ...

... a machine that the US military used on D-Day. Everyone was intrigued by the fact that the steering wheel was on the left... :-p. This country is all backwards. The steering wheels are on the right, people pass on the right and drive on the left and, when ...

... (with 2 students standing beside him) and future Buddha. On each side there are 9 statues of monks (?). Yongyou Hall "god blesses the country and the people forever". Inside there are three statues of the longevity Buddhas with embroidery on either side - ...

... Spanish rule in the country such as documents, paintings and sculptures.   Cebu also holds the distinction of having the country's oldest street — Colon, which has been in existence since the time of Legazpi. Located in the downtown area, ...

...   After Austin, we wanted to go to New Orleans, but since we're both music fans we thought we'd stop off in Cajun Country, so we splashed out to stay at the Bayou Cabins in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.  We weren't disappointed - we were ...

... was my first visit to the east and as it is a part of Asia I was very much expecting similarities between my own country India and Korea. When I landed in Seoul on 9th june 2007, starting from the airport till hotel I was amazed to ...

... hotel, we stopped by an Udon restaurant nearby and satisfied ourselves with the type of meal we had come to expect from this country. Even "fast food" style Japanese food trumps some of the best Japanese cuisine they offer back in the States over here. ...

... walking back towards the causeway. I can now say I've been to Malaysia, but Johor Bahru is not a good benchmark on judging the country. On the walk back all I could think about was the Chili & Black Pepper Crab we were going to have that night. ...

... walking around in t-shirts (and it was still too warm!) Definitely not your typical November weather. We made our way to the memorial plaza and then onto the riverside. We had a slight detour to a famous ice-cream parlour which was ran by a film producer ...

... in this part and there was another major difference.  We had arrived in PN Los Cardones.  The second largest national park in the country (after PN Iguazu), there were cardones as far as the eye could see.  Thousands of them.  What is ...

... , supplied using waste heat or steam from the power station, and is a very efficient way of heating in a cold country. It does, however, represent a large infrastructure investment and ongoing maintenance problem. The condition of the piping is typical of ...

... Kanamaruza Theatre, Takatoro Stone Lantern, Tanukiya Sanuki Udon Noodle, Sayabashi Bridge)  37. Tokushima (Awaodori Kaikan Hall, Aibahama Park, Oboke Gorge Pleasure Boat, Iya Kazurabashi Bridge) 38. Kochi (Harimaya Bridge, Sunday Market, Katsurahama ...