Royal Continental

Welcome to my travelogue! We are flying Continental Air via Newark to San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, December 18th and will arrive mid-afternoon at our 16th Century former Carmelite convent, then bordello, transformed to one of the Leading Hotels of the ...

... was back to the dining hall for a beer and dinner. It was the same food as in Bardia. In the evening you get ''continental/internationl'' and daal bhaat for lunch. It soon became apparant that he Americans were only staying one night at the camp and then ...

... , the bus rolled up at 2.30am, and I rolled on. This bus didn’t come with suspension, but it did come with the promise of a continental breakfast. What is that, I hear you ask? As far as I can work out, it’s a stale bread roll and a mug, which ...

... 10.05pm DAY 3 TUE We crawled from our bed at 6 am this morning to prepare for our first major tour. After a hurried Continental breakfast we boarded the 7 am shuttle to River City. I was barely able to conceal a feeling of panic due to an intense ...

... as the center stone. They made it specially for us. On Valentine's Day, we had our driver take us to the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore. After the bombing in Islamabad, they had really stepped up security. We had a security check with six guards ...

... to finish, walked over to another church, Riddarholmskyrkan. It was very old and was somewhat simple. Then we walked back to the royal palace, Kungliga Slottet, to watch the changing of the guards at noon. It got pretty crowded and the whole ceremony took ...

... . Louis). It was sunny, warm, and humid . . . around 66° . . . this was the weather that had been forecast. We were walking along Royal, found 819, found 822, no 820. We stopped a lady and asked and she didn't know. So . . . we switched to Plan B . . ...

... climbing the stairs in the rain and then we posed for some unbelievable photos. The To family dressed up as queens complete with royal robes, crowns, jewels and scepters. Liz, dressed as a knight in shining armour, protected them from her horse. Anne had ...

... started looking for a place where we could get a muffaletta to go. We were walking along reading menus and Pere Antoine's (741 Royal) had muffalettas. We ordered a whole ($14) and continued to our hotel, stopping at the grocery to buy beignets mix, and ...

... we emerged from the station, a completely different picture of Taipei was painted. Pristine new high rise developments, landscaped gardens, continental boutiques and eateries. This would be the side of Taipei painted for all tourists and we were about to ...

... We ditched our guide and did our own tour checking out the various areas like the tower, the temple of the condor, royal enclosures, the group of the three doorways, ceremonial rock, the main square, astronomical observatory, the three windows, the ...

... Africa. Their website is http://www.incredibletours.co.za. They arranged with their agent in Cape Town who gave me the same royal treatment.  I do say with pride that South Africa is one of the best country one should consider visiting. ...

... de Ferrari then off one of the streets spoked off from the Piazza. Enroute captured Columbo in the daylight and the Plazzo Reale (Royal Pallace) as well as a few more colourful and artistic entrances to the various homes of the nobles of the past.  ...

... suitcase, and Philip has his computer case and I have a small tote bag.  We could take about anything we wanted on the Continental flight from IAH to LHR, but I was worried about how much we will be able to take on the Austrian airlines ...

So after a 7 hr flight beside a right royal pain in the arse princess (and beautiful wife), and after curry for dinner and breakfast, on BA, we landed in Delhi (vanessa was sitting next to cute bf so was good on the seating front). We were welcomed by ...

... ; (Because my ticket is a oneworld award though American Airlines I can’t print it out in advance, since the actual carrier is Royal Jordanian).  So I had no idea what terminal I was supposed to go to.  Turns out it was one (not so lucky, ...

    After a lazy continental breakfast Keshav (our Trek & Tour operator) arrived at 10.30 to take us round Kathmandu. Luckily he gave us our passports back and explained about our trip to Tibet and how we’d have to leave at 4am to ...

... gems!  Unfortunately, there were no free samples while we were there. We walked around the grounds, looked at the royal armories exhibits, climbed up and down the castle stairs and battlement, saw the Beefeaters -- and the ravens -- and ...

... typical casino. We changed our mind about going back to the hotel and decided to go check out the Carousel Bar (214 Royal, in the Hotel Monteleone). The piano bar comes with a literary pedigree: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Ernest Hemingway all ...

... . We stopped at the first place we saw (Wal-Green's) and bought gloves ($2 ea). Onward. We stopped in at Keil's Antiques (325 Royal) and looked at their jewelry. They had gorgeous stuff but the prices were out of sight . . . it was fun looking. We ...