Rhodes Hotel London

... time to Rhodes island!. thats new for me!! actually only done a day excursion in 2007. so my flight from London Gatwick to Rhodes was a late evening flight. I traveled with two of my friends Ben and Neil!. but it was a ...

... video.  Right when I got the thing out, they stopped.  Isn't that the way it goes? We headed for the Tower of London.  We've been watching "The Tutors" on Showtime (We were shocked to find out that Henry the VIII did not look like Jonathan ...

it was my first time to Rhodes island!. thats new for me!! actually only done a day excursion in 2007. so my flight from London Gatwick to Rhodes was a late evening flight. I traveled with two of my friends Ben and Neil!. but it was a late flight 22:50hrs ...

... way while the kids and I roamed around the church. We saw tombs of kings and queens, tributes to great writers, Cecil Rhodes, James Watt, Issac Newton, and James Wolfe among many others. Meanwhile, Celine found a quiet sanctuary meant for private prayer ...

... out my last travel journal instalment. I then carried on the coast road till I reached the aquarium at the Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes http://www.hcmr.gr I thought the whole set up was pretty good and enjoyed my visit. It was educational and ...

... if you miss a train you have to buy a new ticket which on the day of goes sky high. So we ended up on a bus back to London that took 5 hours...but we made it back. Eben decided to rest while I had dinner with Amanda Dotseth, a friend who was a curator at ...

Today, we continued to explore London.  We headed for the bus but wound up taking the subway to London's "Times Square", Piccadilly Circus.  Not much there, really.  A lot of construction, we speculated, getting ready for the 2012 ...

... idiot that made that statement?  Uh, that would be me. Heathrow to Paddington Station.  Out of the station right to the hotel. Pocaheidias is amazing!  If it was up to me, we'd either be lost or using $400 worth of GPS. Paddington Station ...

... walked on to Westminster Abby and then Parliament.  Being Saturday, the MP's were not in session.  We moved on to the London Eye - the giant Ferris wheel 440 ft tall.  Lines were long, but they moved pretty fast and we got to see the ...

... so we have had to fiddle the dates in between to get details of both trips into the same blog. So Sue flew London-Athens-Rhodes/Rhodos-Athens-Amsterdam (train to and from The Hague)-London. Sue Rhodes (Rhodos) is situated between the Black Sea and Egypt ...

... far though. We will visit the castle tomorrow.   We arrived in London on Sept 9th at 7:30 am and checked into The Rhodes Hotel near Hyde Park.  We immediately went out in search of a full english breakfast and tried to stay awake all day after ...

... security and were boarding the plane by 4:10-nothing like cutting it close! We flew on a British Airways 747 from SFO to London Heathrow. The fight was very pleasant. Micki & I watched a movie, "The pursuit of Happiness" while the kids watched their ...

... the very last one at 3:50. Not a fun wait. My interview went well, I thought. The panelists were the provosts of the Rhodes and Gates Cambridge scholarships and two Truman Scholars from back in the day. It was intimidating, but I felt like I held my ...

... , so all we needed was showers, beds, and Internet.  We ended up at Hotel Lydia, a typical 3 star hotel in the new section of Rhodes.  Three stars means almost nothing in Europe as I think anyone can get three stars no matter the accommodations ...

... overnight stays on surrounding islands. Instead we bit the bullet and spent slightly more money on a plane ticket from Santorini to Rhodes and then took a connecting hydrofoil to Fethiye. All up, our travel time was around three hours - a much ...

... on the advice of colonel winston J III. Leftenant P. Anderson recommended gallipoli but I disimissed that as Australian nationalism. So, rhodes, then santorini, then athens, then home. There is a stopover at mykonos tomorrow on the way to rhodes and I ...

... his hand and had dinner. There was a bar and a disco onboard so we all hung out there till the early hours. Whilst in Rhodes I brought some cute little black sandals to wear with my black dress that I packed, also brought a cheap bracelet to match my ring ...

... or watch the world go by at a sidewalk cafe. Tonight join us for dinner and famous Parisian cabaret. (B) Oct 5 Paris to London. Going north we first visit the Canadian War Memorial situated near the Valley of the Somme. From here to Calais and our ...

... 29-July 6 Optional weekend trips to Madrid, Berlin, or Ibiza July 2-3 Barcelona-Paris (by Elipsos Train-Hotel) July 6-7 Paris July 7-12 Optional weekend trips to London or Amsterdam July 9-10 Geneva July 12 Interlaken July 12-16 Milan July 16-20 Optional ...

... ruin at that. Incidentally this is the third of the seven that I have visited. The first was the site of the 'Colossus of Rhodes'. Sadly nothing remains to be seen there. Further up the hill is the Basilica of St. John. Much more of this remains and ...