Renaissance Zurich

... Club for tennis only to discover we were lost because we assumed Zurich but instead the street was in Forch, another village outside Zurich. Great tennis and then dinner at a vogue Asian restaurant with our hosts the Pinsker ( both ex HK and friends of ...

... , etc, our oldest historical dress up figures are from the colonial days- minutemen and women.  Here, they are gladiators and Renaissance figures!  There were some odd (to us) traditional customs that went along with the parade as well. You know all the ...

... my ride to Bagamoyo. Good thing was I met Elizabeth also going to Bagamoyo, so we are figuring this out together. I'm at the Renaissance hotel for the night, thanks to American. We will leave for Africa at 9am and get to Dar around 8:30pm. Not sure ...

... most extensive art collections we've ever seen.  The musuem was called the Kuntshaus and had great art from the Renaissance through the Dutch masters to Impressionism, Surrealism and Contemporary.  We saw Matisse, Monet, Rodin, Reubens, Dali, ...

... as the town’s fortification, a dungeon, and treasury vault. Later on in the 17th century, it was adorned with 111 Renaissance paintings individually designed in keeping with the progression of the city of Luzern. Then in 1993, a fire burnt half of ...

... us up at around noon for us to spend the next five nights at his house.  Bruce is a pulmonary physician/Renaissance man whom Steve has met through their shared interest in mesothelioma treatment and research. Bruce has published a book ...

We took a bus from Paraty to Sao Paulo on Friday and made our way to the Renaissance Sao Paulo (Thank you, Marriott points). The Renaissance is a very nice hotel - especially after four nights in hostels on beaches, which certainly have their charms, ...

Ooookay. Atlanta. Der Flughafen ist wie gesagt der geschäftigste der Welt. 88 Millionen Passagiere jährlich. Zürich bringt's auf 20. Doch kennt irgendjemand eine berühmte Sehenswürdigkeit der Stadt? Ähhhhmmm...eben. Ist aber nicht verwunderlich. ...

... has a UNESCO listed bibleotech (library) it's a few centurys old and is made of timber with the ceilings painted in the renaissance style. Drove around and found some open wirless connections, emailed and checked the news and then took off to Appenzell. A ...

... 2pm after a 3 hour trains journey.  This beautiful city of Lucerne on the edge of Lake Lucerne. We walked a 5 minute walk to our Renaissance Hotel and had a nice cup to tea and a nanna nap. At about 6pm we went on a lake cruise on Lake Lucerne, one ...

... has been reserved for 3     nights     in   Lucerne at the Renaissance Hotel Lucerne. Tel Ph 41-41-2268787    Travelling around Lucerne for the next three days ...

... of 1.8 million people the capital of Austria with its 8 million people. The buildings in Vienna are simply incredible with Gothic and Renaissance architecture at every corner. We did the city tour bus coach around the ring road which in years gone by, was ...

... .  We enter and see the spectacular painting filled with insight and perspective.  Not frescoed like so many renaissance painting, Leonard developed a new paint formula and technique so he could take his time (frescoes are done on wet plaster ...

... the church for a but and then walked over to the Uffizi museum nearby which has the reputation of having the best Renaissance art collection in th world. The line was outrageous! We learned that you can actually book tickets for Florence museums ahead of ...

... We needed a recovery day after such a monumental collection.  The next was the Thyssen Bornemisza Museo: home of medieval, renaissance and baroque works.  We took the audio tour here and dedicated the whole day to the place.  I ...

... As I’m not an architecture buff, I find it difficult to describe to you the type of buildings, whether they’re Renaissance, Gothic, etc., so words such as beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, and all other synonyms will have to suffice. But I ...

... fountain near the Elisabeth Kirche and then he had to get his train to Frankfurt, but hopefully more knowledgeable about Renaissance and Reformation Bavaria!!! (those who havent heard indepth about my previous Nuremberg trip- the names and places wont ...

... Uffizi shortly before noon, climbing the obligatory three flights of stairs before beginning our sprint through the finest collection of Renaissance art in the world by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael and many others. As expected, ...

... yesterday We went on a lovely escourted excusion to a little town called Colma. Noted for its gothlic churches ,renaissance houses and vineyards A beautiful village all houses joined together along the canals Wonderful wooden facard homes with huge ...