I recently spent a week in Prague at the Intercontinental Hotel. Unfortunately, their swimming pool was closed for maintenance for the entire week. However, they arranged for a hotel car to take guests (for free) along to the Hilton where we were able to use their pool and spa facilities. When I finished, I just [...]
If you should happen to find yourself in Milan, near Milanofiori (home of the International Congress Centre, a Jolly Hotel and a shopping centre amongst other things, but fundamentally Central Nowheresville) and you fancy a good cup of tea, you could do much worse than visit Adriano at the Black&Noir café. You’ll find him at [...]
Big Martyn has started on his Mega Cruise. Hurrah! I’m pleased to report there’s a daily update from the man himself on his new blog:
http://bigmartyn.blogspot.com/
By the way, did I mention I lost another 3 and a half pounds last week? Check it out!
View from the posh restaurant at Malpensa airport, originally uploaded by rev_dr_jan.
Tucked away at the top of terminal 1 in Malpensa airport is the rather excellent La Galleria restaurant.
Remarkably, the chef has 2 Michelin Stars!
There was a 50 euro fixed price degustation menu, along with some 35 euro less extravagant menus and a full a-la-carte [...]
Our first year we went up the Grand Union Canal and just about got outside the M25. Kings Langley is where we turned around.
Last year we went the other way, along the Regent’s Canal to the Hertford Canal and then up the Lea Navigation and the Stort River to Bishop’s Stortford and then Hertford.
This year [...]
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Posted 15 August 2007
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Tagged: Aylesbury, Bishop's Stortford, Canalplan AC, Gino's, Grand Union, Hertford, Kings Langley, Limehouse, Oxford, Stort, Teddington, Thames
I’m staying this week in Mestre. Which was described by a colleague as ‘the Slough of Venice’. Which is probably not a bad analogy
The Venice Festival is on right now, and allegedly it can take up to 90 minutes to get from here (to all intents and purposes at the end of the [...]
At the weekend I visited the Science Museum in South Kensington, London with my parents.
I think the first time I went there was a school trip when I was about 9 or 10, and I’ve been quite a few times between now and then, but not recently.
It’s fantastic!
It starts off well - there’s one side [...]
One of the other passengers on both the flights to and from Bucharest was none other than Sir Cliff Richard! My Mum is dead jealous
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Posted 02 May 2006
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I was in Hamburg for most of last week, upgrading a customer’s system.
I stayed at the Park Hyatt hotel, which was fabulous, as usual. I have stayed here before, when I was installing the system originally way back in 2001.
In fact, when I installed the system I made several visits to Hamburg. I stayed in [...]
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Posted 27 November 2005
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I’ve had a Navman 630 for some months now, and I’m very happy with it. The 630 is the predecessor to the 650. The big difference is the 630 uses an SD card to store the maps (limited to 256Mb by the hardware), whereas the 650 uses an internal 2Gb hard disk. The disk is [...]