Renaissance Golden Beach

... we stopped to look at the Moeraki Boulders, famous spherical rocks which sit on the beach, it is quite a setting along the golden beach stretching for miles.    We checked into the Empire Hotel on the main street of Oamaru, a ...

... only a small wander away after we had our fill of the sun. Many museums were visited, giving a fascinating insight into the Renaissance golden age of the city, with many artifacts from the time incredibly well preserved.  During our wanders around ...

This realy was a once in a life time holiday everything was perfect. The hotel was great 5 star all the way the beach was lovely the private reef was such good fun to explore the food was great and the trips we took were will never be ...

... 10 pm at night and let me tell you we were not impressed.  We couldn't reach anyone at the Blue Green Resorts numbers and the Renaissance wanted to charge us for the nights stay.  I think not!  $100 US I don't think so.  After a short discussion with ...

... on peninsular Malaysia. Navigating through the airport's touts, we sift our way through, and grab our taxi bound for the Renaissance Hotel, smack dab in the centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's majestic capital city (affectionately known as 'KL' to ...

... and got beverages at the refreshment stations. The walk was beautiful down past the piers, Fisherman's Wharf and so on....I saw Alcatraz, the Golden Gate bridge..I felt like I was in a postcard. And then I got to mile four! I reached my goal!! Yes!!  ...

... filmed in a tiny cove. The scenery around the east of the island was stunning with sheer volcanic mountains as a backdrop to golden beaches and rolling surf, so we could see the obvious filming attractions.Lunch was on the patio of a pleasant beach side ...

... and forgotten until the French occupation of IndoChina in the 1850s. It was 'discovered' by them and has seen a renaissance to the fabulous archeologic site it is today. Put this one on your bucket list folks, for it is spectacular - ...

... of La Orotava. Founded in 1501, it is a garden among stately houses. Sights of interest are San Marcos Church, with its Renaissance portal and large Baroque retable, El Cristo de las Aguas in the Franciscan church, the Convent of San Agustín, El Pilar ...

... the different passages. The town is pleasant and relaxing, almost all pedestrian, with little squares, restaurants, bars, shops Renaissance and baroque palaces and some galleries, the most important is dedicated to Egon Schiele, the Viennese painter who ...

... evocative of the Garden of Eden (I'm not sure why.  I wasn't there and am a Darwinist.  Perhaps it was a renaissance painting I saw).  The slight disappointment for a coastal walk was the large amount of time the bush closed out any views ...

... city of garden wrapped squares and sixteenth century cathedrals and palaces which are still owned by nobles and house valuable Renaissance paintings. It was an absolutely stunning city withy very tiny streets so much so that the inhabitants have to park ...

... that so many Englishmen summer here that the nickname for Chianti is Chiantishire.  Siena, another important town involved in the Renaissance, housed the most beautiful piazza in the country.  It was a shame that we had just missed the Palio - ...

... to stop in the town of Tivoli, a resort town of the ancient Romans. It was the summer playground of the wealthy Renaissance and is now a tourist attraction due to the terraced gardens and fountains of Emperor Hadrian's Villa Adriana. We parked the ...

... worth the experience, and with our heads still in the clouds, we make our way back to our hotel. The famous kiss... Coming up: 18. Michelangelo's David 19. Florence - the heart and soul of the Renaissance 20. All roads lead to ...

... of the oldest and most historically significant libraries in the Americas and dramatic collections of religious and secular art, including renaissance-era tiles imported from Spain'. We plan on leaving Lima tomorrow for Ica to do sandboarding in the ...

... and it's another thing to see them in their lovely silk and organza reality. From the permanent collection, I really liked the Medieval, Renaissance and art deco displays. They even have the bed that Zola modeled Nana's bed on (in the eponymous novel). It ...

... ; Hmmm, why are there so many deaths on this road again? We stayed in a hotel on the beach front which had a very strange psuedo Renaissance facade, smelly rooms and served incredible fresh trout and we spent what turned into a very ...

... nbsp; All we can do now is savor it for what it’s worth and take away as much as possible from this brief enlightening renaissance.  With these thoughts still in my head, I wake the next morning, strap my gear to the bike and take off into the ...

... been synonymous with San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood ever since. The neighborhood became the center of the San Francisco Renaissance and with it, the rise of a drug culture and rock-and-roll lifestyle by the mid '60s. ...