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Holidays are better value than ever this year..

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Holidays are better value than ever this year..

…ms. This is true for the Cavallo Point at Sausalito (San Francisco), White House Inn (Napa) and the Four Seasons in Las Vegas. Looking on both hotel sites and booking sites like expedia are rafts of offers and deals. The extra nights seem popular at present as again assume they then will try and sell other services and food. Strengthening pound With all the offers from hotels through their sites, we only paid deposits of one night. The discounting…

The Opal Lounge Restaurant Cape Town

Attraction review / Cape Town / South Africa

The Opal Lounge Restaurant Cape Town

…at the bottom of the trendy Kloof Street in a stunning and large Victorian house, that appraently was a farmhouse on a farm providing vegetables to the fast growing Cape Town. Now it is the heart of the bustling city. The decor is powerful and very striking. The entrance hall and bar are all black with touches of gold. The eating rooms are also dramatic and themed around Persia. There is a more sedate veranda seating area as well. The staff are al…

Kalk Bay, Cape, South Africa

Attraction review / Cape Town / South Africa

Kalk Bay, Cape, South Africa

…reading and physics’ shops. There is a small harbour and there is Harbour House which apparently serves great food along with great views. It was too busy the day we went, but came highly recommended. It was a great town to wander around and there seems to be loads of guest houses and holiday apartments with great ocean views as it rises fast from sea level up to the mountains. Handy also for popping along the road to see the penguins. Kalk Bay,…

Japan / Tokyo

Tokyo: My tips for travellers visiting!

…inary. Of course while the city may not look great, it is one of the power house and modern economies. With the damage during the war, it also seems to make the tour options and sight-seeing of historical areas a bit redundant and the main sights listed and tours seem to focus mostly on visiting shopping areas. More about what the tour options are a bit later in the travel tips. But overall other than soaking up the Japanese experience there is no…

Lismoyne Hotel, Fleet, Hampshire (UK): Review, Photos, Video

Hotel Review / Hotel Room Video / Tips for Travellers / Top Tips / travel

Lismoyne Hotel, Fleet, Hampshire (UK): Review, Photos, Video

…d up being a slightly strange place to visit. It is basically an old large house, that I guess was originally in the country but now is close to the centre of Fleet. Then sprawling out from it are some accommodation wings which are fine but feel very functional rather than well designed. Although the rooms and blocks seem to have been renovated some time recently, they are all very old fashioned and feel a lot like your well meaning granny was the…

Caribbean Cruise Part 2: Setting off, and the dreaded charter flight

Arcadia / caribbean / cruise / Hilton / London / P and O

Caribbean Cruise Part 2: Setting off, and the dreaded charter flight

…night as check in for the flight was 07:15am. Gatwick is 50 miles from the house and involves traveling around the hideously busy M25 motorway that runs around London and so it is much less stressful to stay at the airport the night before. It not we would have had to ensure we leave plenty of time and would have set off from home by 6am, or earlier. The day is going to be long enough as it is as the flight is 8,5 hours and with the 4 hour time di…

Hotel Review: Sheraton Belgravia, London UK

Hotel Review / Hotel Room Video / London / Sheraton

Hotel Review: Sheraton Belgravia, London UK

…fixtures in the room were traditional but stylish, with a sort of country house look. The bathroom had Molton Brown toiletries and complimentary wireless access for the duration of your stay. They give you cards with a code for each day when you check in. As I mentioned, there is no fitness centre in the hotel, which is an issue I think considering the cost and premium of the hotel. You can go up the road to a sister hotel but when on business yo…

ATHENS, GREECE: Observations and top tips for visitors

Athens / Greece / Top Tips

ATHENS, GREECE: Observations and top tips for visitors

…lk through the plush gardens with ponds can take you past the Presidential House (which used to be the palace when Greece had a royal family) but more importantly to the Parliament building at the top of the Garden. This is called a neo-classical building in all the guidebooks, whatever that means, and was built between 1834 and 1838 as the palace of the first kings. It is a huge building with big columns and a large statue and fountain outside an…

PODCAST 21: BARBADOS

Barbados / Tips for Travellers / Top Tips / travel / travel podcast

PODCAST 21: BARBADOS

…omeda Botanic Gardens, Bathsheba Island Safari Barbados Sunbury Plantation House Francia Plantation Flower Forest According to : http://www.barbados.org/cruise.htm Now that your cruise has brought you to the shores of Barbados, how should you spend your day(s) on this beautiful island? There are a number of exciting ways to pass the time in Barbados, whatever your age and whatever your interests. Here is a small sample of the many ways of enjoying…

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Podcast and show notes)

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BANGKOK, THAILAND (Podcast and show notes)

…specially the bedrooms, the Audience Chamber and the bathrooms. Some rooms house exhibitions of art works, for example, there is a silverware display room, a ceramic display room, a glassware display room and an ivory display room. 5. Bangkok National Museum http://www.thailandmuseum.com/thaimuseum_eng/bangkok/history.htm This museum, considered the largest in Southeast Asia, houses a vast collection of antiquities including prehistoric art, mural…

About Me

…p3 ). My first YouTube video came on 24 June 2006 (a video tour of a guest house we were staying in, in Cape Town https://youtu.be/Wc4qTwI8rUg ). The second video I posted was about a Cunard Queen Mary 2 Queens Grill cabin (https://youtu.be/58IuFxpSbqU), and it was this that started my journey. A journey that would eventually turn a hobby into a career. My Johnson & Johnson days I stumbled across cruising by accident. But it changed everything. I…