The Empire

This time I'll be working at a summer camp for diabled kids in Denver, Colorado for 6 weeks then going on an All-American Road Trip with Ben (route and destination still to be decided)!

... hike up and around the corner through more hardwoods and pines - and you're on the face of the Empire Bluffs! What a breathtaking view. Looking north you can see the little village of Empire below and the beach where ...

... of some color on the trees. I drove around in the hills just north of town, and ended up going into Empire for supper. After a delicious BBQ buffalo brisket sandwich at Joe's Friendly Tavern, I continued south on back roads. I ...

... 25 minutes, hardly time to go to the toilet before you had to buckle up for the descent.  We were staying at the Empire Hotel and Country Club complete with Jack Nicklaus golf course. The hotel was reputed to have cost 800 million US dollars to build ...

... is bad and they are not responsive. I had to make international phone calls to contact the host. (11) The office website of this Empire Hostel says that there are ensuite rooms (with private bath), but this is NOT TRUE. This is a misrepresentation or a ...

The Empire Hotel at Jerudong is a fantastic place to relax and enjoy top class luxury. If you want to take in a movie at the hotel's very own cinema, a ticket will set you back about $7. If you want to enjoy a nice pot of tea whilst taking in the view of ...

Our next destination was the Empire Hotel in Brunei, which is the most up market hotel here. This is supposed to be another palace built for the Sultan's brother which was later converted to this hotel. This is a seven star hotel and as the star ...

... world's tallest building for an 11 month period in 1931, until the record passed to the, then recently constructed, Empire State Building. Coming all this way I just had to check out the lobby which, like most of Manhattan's iconic skyscrapers, ...

... walls of once the greatest empire in South East Asia, the Bago empire. This was the home to the greatest Buddhist empire that spread the religion throughout this region and the rest of the world. However today, it is in a dilapidated ...

... chacune a leur facon. Vienne est une ville fiere de son histoire. C'est d'ici que la famille Habsburg a dirige l'empire Austro-Hongrois pendant des siecles. Ce que nous connaissons maintenant sous le nom de Hongrie, Autriche, Allemagne, Italie a fait ...

... played a greater influence on the development of the western world. About 2000 years ago Romans thought their city (and its empire) represented the entire civilized world.  To be Roman was to be civilized.  To be anything but ...

After seeing the imperialism of Vienna replaced with communism in Bulgaria (O.K. an empire of sorts but go with me on this one) it was a case of the empire striking back in style in Istanbul. Its strategic location has meant that 'in its long history, ...

... have a distinctly Indian persona with Shiva, the god of destruction being the main diety worshipped.  However, as the empire evolved, Buddhism, specifically in the 9th and 10th centuries.  However, later Champa again turned to Hinduism as the ...

... threatening to rain but it was possible to see for quite a distance. Last time I was in New York I was looking at the Empire State Building from the top of the World Trade Centre, so it was interesting to see the view from the opposite direction towards ...

... was feeling so hot. We left out friend so he could catch his bus to his next stop and we decided we should visit the empire state building since it was our last night in New York. We headed off in the direction of what we thought was the empire state ...