The Stanley Hotel

... in Los Angeles over night. The 21st toWe will board the plane to Buenos Aries and will be there for 5 nights...yes we are using hotel points! We will be boarding the ship on the 28th and will be heading south and will go around Cape Horn. We will be at ...

... at the local bottle shop we made a feast in the campervan using the excellent on-board cooking facilities, then paid a visit to the Stanley Hotel (they call pubs hotels here). We'd only planned to stay for one or two but ended up befriending a few ...

We got a bus over to the island and another over to Stanley. We passed the sky scrapers and continues to the coast. it was great to smell the sea air. There is a law in HongKong that allows people to get fined £150 for dropping litter. This means that ...

Stanley was a crazy drive from Lake St Claire but we knew it would be. Carlo had recommended the 'Explorer Highway' to me. It is a road that runs down the rugged western part of Tasmania and you get a really good feel for the country. We got up early ...

... with loads of local flavour Our Tasmanian Temptation Menu Our region produces some of Tasmania's most renowned produce. Here at the Stanley Hotel we celebrate that excellence at every meal. The Hotel now specialises in making great pub food with loads of ...

... and postcards of the Nut in better weather). Splashed out on a drawn out, shelter from the rain, pub lunch at the Stanley hotel. Drove on to Black River Campsite.  Weather terrible.  Drank and played Spit till we stopped noticing it, then ...

... Stacey Anyway, back to business - It was a lovely day, blue skies and a rising temperature so we headed out and off towards Stanley, in the Sawtooth Wilderness area.  We turned off the interstate at Boise where we knew there was a Walmart, to fill ...

... .... something you hear of constantly on the Islands. We have to fly from Punta Arenas in Chile, across Argentina to Stanley. A recent inter Government agreement has meant that there are flights once a fortnight from Rio Gallegos in Argentina to the ...

... ship.  Something like 900 people found themselves unexpected guests overnight in a place that has one hotel and a population of only 3000.  The people of Stanley put them up, took them to their homes, cooked for them.  I’m guessing ...

... tourism. We based ourselves in an example of the latter,Waratah, to explore the southern edge of the wilderness then in Stanley for the northern part. Waratah turned out to be a delightful community and is a town with one pub (wallaby shanks ...

... our way across Tasmanias north-coast destined for Stanley and the 'Nut' - the circular headland that attracts visitors to Stanley; passing through Ulverstone and Penguin on the way. Penguin surprisingly enough has a 'penguin' theme due to the presence ...

... I'm going and now its getting to be a while on the bike...my arms are tired from the cranking...neck sore...hmmm need hotel....Stanley is the next town.....I check the GPS...crap they got 2 hotels.....well lets see.  So I rolled into Stanley...what ...

Yesterday, March 23, we visited the Falkland Islands. Stanley was the port. The ship was unable to tie up at a pier because the harbor was too shallow. We took a tender (small boat) into town and made our way via bus and 4 wheel drive to see the ...

... historian who has wintered in Antarctica five times. Back to room to get diary up-to-date, ready for uploading tomorrow in Stanley if the opportunity arises.    Quiet night sailing, probably at low speed to enter Stanley at dawn. We wake just ...

... bridge, so you couldn't drive past it. Anyway we did these stops: Kanunnah, Sumac Lookout, Lake Chisholm and Julius River. Back in Stanley I was hanging around the hostel for a while before going out to a hotel for some food. The food was so and so. ...

... to me the futility of war. The people of the Island are well laid back and I found them to be very accommodating and friendly. Stanley is the capital, it's small town with not much there to do or see. The church has an arch made of whale bones which I ...

Raining ,not heavy but enough to be annoying,left Stanley at 9.30am,checked out a couple of camp sites not far from Stanley.Found what we thought was a reasonable one at Black River camp ground & set up,not as many people here as the other spot,road ...

Flew out by helicopter south to Sea Lion Island (10 miles from East Falklands mainland) landing close to the Lodge Hotel.  Exploring eastwards passing colonies of gentoo penguins to see the elephant seals with their new born pups .  Many ...

... bgger than yours" statements).  Anyway we happily chose some food (not much as we have definitely overeaten while with Stanley) but purchasing the lunch ended up being beyond our comprehension.  We worked out, with some sign language and ...