The Royal Marine Hotel

... with Wally and Ingrid in their surprisingly roomy camper caravan.    Have an excellent and well priced meal at the Royal Federal Hotel, two of us and a Mt Isa woman the only customers. Pretty good night in our donga with adjacent kitchen and ...

... 2 other members of our party. Frank introduced himself & in the first 5 minutes we discovered he was 77 years old !, an ex Royal Marine and intended to be the oldest person to get to the top of Kilimanjaro & on his own apparently as he clearly ...

... ends up completely full. The highlands look pretty green going up toward them. Check out the dirt road leading to the expensive Royal Palms hotel, and the buildings well back off the road. It seems strangely placed, and would have to be pretty flash to ...

... probably hasn't changed a lot. Check out the main street, taking photos of the imposing Council Chambers and the typically large Royal Mail Hotel, with a long second storey verandah around the corner, and cast iron posts. Leaving town, we get a photo of a ...

... back to the sports bar where sara tried to explain the rules of cricket to a dutch guy for donkies ages before hooking up with a royal marine whod just sailed in and was staying hte the 5 star Taj the best in town well i suppose they deserve it as were ...

... or moody dorms we experienced in Adelaide or our early nights in Melbourne. The bunch of friends we have made includes ex-royal marine commando Sandy, Scottish Walker and another Welshman (to keep Dan company) Gavin. During our meal on the first night ...

... us that is like selling our souls so we moved on quickly to Phi phi islands- we arrived and checked into a hotel to be approached by about 15 royal marine men asking if we would like to fill the space of their friends on a boat trip around the island ...

... me to share a bottle of wine with him.  As I was waiting for Simon, (Albany's Director) to finish bonding with his former Royal Marine chum inside the restaurant (it was taking a while), I took him up on the offer and had half a glass and whilst he ...

... of Dar es Salaam.  It was a good experience and a nice lunch.  The meeting was held at the Movenpick hotel downtown (formerly the Royal Palm) where Saada (my host counselor) actually has her office (British Airways).  Everyone was very receptive and ...

... wrasse, trigger fish (which nearly bit me), parrot fish, surgeon fish, barracuda, turtle and white tipped shark. In all, the marine life was extremely diverse, the coral was very colorful and after a while the awe of each dive was lost as expectations ...

... to see the world famous one in Osaka so we hoped this would make up for it. The aquarium houses more than 30,000 marine animals and as many as 400 aquatic species including blue ringed octopus, ragged-tooth sharks, stingrays, sea dragons and giant spider ...

Maharista - Mumbai (aka Bombay) 1-6th June Staying in a 5 star hotel Le Royal Meridien which is lurvely with gorgeous quiet pool which we made good use of before the pre monsoon showers that kick in at 16:30 .... Well Mumbai is exactly as the book ...

... is a lovely setting and you can see why so many people come to Brighton to enjoy it. Brighton Pier originally known as the Brighton Marine Palace and Pier and also known as the Palace Pier for a long time opened in 1899. (Trev said it reminded him of the ...

... base of the Leper King's Terrace, there were significant amount of demon carvings on it and beneath these demons were nagas and marine life. It seemed to depict some kind of ranking system in the underworld. After leaving the royal grounds, we headed for ...

... ’ and similar to the one we went to in KL (where I did my Shark Dive) it showcased 250 different species of marine life from around the regions. It too has an 83-metre long travelator that transports you through an acrylic-tunnel whilst you gaze at ...

... tied onto the top of its cargo. After another bus journey (it had taken 11 hours to travel 200km) we finally arrived at our hotel - The Royal. Being the oldest hotel in Fiji it had a colonial time-stood-still feel about it. There was a four-poster bed in ...

... être explorés en snorkling ou avec des bonbonnes parce qu'ils sont près de la surface. En tout il y a une grande abondance et richesse de vie marine. La visibilité est de 30 pieds à peu près et il faut le faire pendant la saison sèche ...

... mansions behind we made our way to our last and in some ways most amazing stop yet- Hol Chan (Mayan for narrow channel) Marine Reserve where sponges, corals and fish couldn't´wait to display their colors. I managed to get close and commune with snapper, ...