Silver Seas Hotel

... seeking hustlers, comanding more "respect".  Thanks to a few people and our patients of walking distances with heavy loads we found our Silver Seas hotel (the oldest hotel in Ocho Rios).  It was alot cheaper than Kingston, but still $25 a night.  ...

... de Catorce sits in a col below two bare rounded summits at an altitude of some three thousand metres. In the sixteenth century silver was discovered in the surrounding hills and a prosperous town, home to tens of thousands of people, sprang up over the ...

... sunny,so we saw this lovely city at its best before returning our hire car to Marseilles & boarding the fabulous 'Silver Shadow', A spacious balcony suite with a huge marble bathroom ensured we were very comfortable for our 7 night cruise. First ...

... the cold. Maybe, as Jon mentioned, they have a laid back attitude to work. Most likely the cold. After checking in to The Seven Seas Hotel half way up to Observatory Hill, for a paltry 400 with hot shower, for a bed and a bench pushed together, we walked ...

... . We packed his small car, loaded Georges and the rest of the luggage in an additional taxi and off we went to new adventures. Silver Sea …… here we come. We kissed Señor Carlos good buy and boarded the ship, the Silverseas Whisper Our Butler ...

... I thought we were on our own there.  He guided us into the church next door with incredible statues, flowers, gold and silver embroidery, I presume representing the 14 stations of the cross.  Huge, extending up to the ceiling, as well as fancy. ...

... for the rest of the year. Hope Town is described as "a time warp hamlet". It has clapboard, saltpox cottages weathered to a silver grey or painted in pastel colours, with white-picket fences setting them off. No vehicles or golf carts are allowed in ...

... in the middle of the courtyard around which the tables are arranged, dressed with crisp linen tablecloths, gold plates and heavy silver cutlery. The night is balmy and humid so the fans putter away while the obsequious waiters fill our crystal glasses. ...

... , have a look at the canyon proper (meant to be more spectacular than even the Grand Canyon), then onto some provincial silver mining towns, a town where they have ancient mummified Aztec bodies and onto a town called Durango where they filmed loads of ...

(For Raphaella, welcome to the world)..... ........ "Where'a you frahm? "Tchermany, Holland, Oshtraylia?" The shiny silver suits speak. Boned black wingtip shoes. Starched white shirts casually open-necked, framing well-shaven jaws beneath neatly ...

... , and don't let that put you off wonderful Egypt and the wonderful Egyptian people.  And I DID manage to buy a lovely silver charm (I collect them, see) Eye of Horus for only £2.50p equivalent and a stone statue of Anubis for £7 equivalent. We ...

... Coffee, then out to boats for the early morning game ride in boats. More kingfishers, giant egrets, macaques, proboscis monkeys and silver leaf monkeys. Back for breakfast, and out at 10am for game walk along track to river. See liana vines that hold ...

... and Dippin Dots had obviously taken their toll as the combined weight of us three was not permitted! Oh the shame. There is always a silver lining - we were going to have to go two at a time so it meant SOMEONE was going to get to go twice. That ...

... it sits well with my tastebuds. We have been eating the dish koshari quite often. This is found wherever there are large, silver cooking pots in the store windows. The meal is a basic vegetarian dish consisting of noodles, rice, black lentils, onion, ...

... we weren't dreaming. It was when we were sitting at a cafe i had a brainwave. The air filter! After taking one look at the once silver air filter, that was now red as the dust of the land, with stones and grit lodged in it, I knew that could be the ...

... which is why we find ourselves here, visiting Isla de la Plata, so named because Francis Drake supposedly buried a massive haul of silver, and known today as the "Poor man`s Galapagos".  No man`s Galapagos more like.  There`s frigate bids ...

... it from each country.  The piece de resistance, however, was the botafumeiro, a huge (maybe 6´ long by 1´ diameter) silver container for incense which is hung from a very strong and long rope pulley-style from the extremely high ceiling ...

... ; It was fun, although Michael seems to always be on Warp 9.....  We lost each other several times.  I bought a beautiful silver bracelet (it's actually a black band with a silver cuff on it) and probably paid too much, but who the hell cares, ...

... In the queue for drinks I'd see girls wearing long brightly coloured dresses, dyed pink leg wraps, embroidered bamboo shoes, amazing silver headdresses, topped with the Miao emblem - a pair of huge silver 'buffalo horns' on the head, representing ...