Queens Court Hotel

... in colour. I really wish I could have taken photos but they wouldn't have done Nefertari credit. After the valley of the queens I took the donkey up a massive set of hills and ended up with a view of Deir al-Bahri (Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut) ...

... .15.09               (Cold) Kings And Queens Of Castle Hill Today, after breakfast in our hotel (not included in the room rate – we had to pay for these quite overpriced pancakes!), ...

... .  Good thing they're pretty common around here.  Our bus transfer was painless and we made it back to Queens Court around 5pm. Unfortunately, by this time I was feeling really rotten and knew that I needed antibiotics for a sinus ...

... and got in a taxi to go to the hotel.  We got our key and checked in right away to the very comfortable suites at Queens Court. By this point it was 9pm and most restaurants near our hotel were closed.  So we walked quite a bit (stopping at ...

... world is, he lived in Spain too and we had some mutual contacts! Hotel front was interesting, the really snotty Queens Gate Hotel, Queensgate, completely messed up my confirmed booking, had no rooms available upon arrival, and whilst it was there fault ...

... Go to Katz’s Deli.  I’ll be your guest blogger today. We woke up early and grabbed a quick breakfast at the hotel, then took a walk down the Esplanade on the way to the Cairns Marlin Marina for a boat out to the Great Barrier Reef.  ...

... but we did not bring our bathing suits, so we decided to continue to stroll along the water to eventually make it to the pool at our hotel.  Perhaps we were strolling too long as the sun was starting to go down, so instead we picked up a six pack and ...

... Tokyo, we were woken up by the quake which was most disconcerting!) · Royal places visited x 4 (Kensington Palace, Royal Mews, Queens Gallery, Royal Observatory (place where the prime meridian (longitude) line is located) · Exhibitions x 3 (James ...

... there in one of the royal sceptres and at roughly 530 carats, the First Star of Africa is monsterously magnificent. The Queens Coronation robes were also on display (she's a shortie!) and just massive amounts of other jewellery and other historical ...

... of bandaging the mummies were often unwrapped and left defiled and decaying. Ultimately the guardian priests realised their pharaohs and queens would never be safe from violation in their own tombs. Around 934 BC they secretly moved 40 of them to a ...

... high up and the acoustics are excellent. When we were there, the Cirque du Soleil had set up for their performances. Our guide took us into the Queens box and the Queens ready room. We sat in chairs that the royals have sat or would sit in. At the end of ...

... a weeks vacation in Las Vegas remaining. Being creatures of habit our first mission for the day as always is to walk to the 4 Queens Hotel and Casino about 500 yards from our hotel and have a look at what shows are available at the half price ticket ...

... , but now the American, French, British, and Russian Embassies once again stand proud. By the time that our bus had returned to the Queens Best Western Hotel, it was just after 11:30pm.  I ended up going straight to my room and sat down on the bed to ...

... We passed under three well-known bridges; the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg that link Manhattan to the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. There were 20 bridges in total on the tour, the last of which, the George Washington, is the longest suspension ...

Today is a day of parks; we went to Chatuchat Park and Sivit Queens Park. Sivit Queens Park was a lot nicer with much prettier gardens, even though Chatuchat Park had loads of squirrels and weird fish things in there ponds. When exiting the parks we ...

... walk for us, but jetlagged in 25degrees, it lost it's novelty! Got to the Tower of London and saw a 62 gun salute for the Queens Birthday, then did the Beefeater tour which was good and learnt about the Tower's history. Stood in a queue for 45 mins to see ...

... .  The pavilion (which at the time would be curtained for privacy) was used as a meeting venue by the maharanis (the queens of the royal family) and all sides of the pavilion were flanked by the women’s quarters which had balconies. We ...

... rooms in this palace. This pavilion, which used to be curtained for privacy, was used as the meeting venue by the maharanis- queens of the royal family. From here we travelled back in to Jaipur for a tour of the City Palace and Museum, briefly ...

... ;We hung out mostly in the North Beach area.  It reminded me of any predominantly Italian neighborhood you would find in Queens but much prettier (and hillier).  We did some shopping, had lunch it an Italian restaurant that sucked and ...