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Opinioni di koshkha

99%

accettabile

[10.10.2010] It seems I never learn, or at least not the right thing at the right time. I learned to try to keep my mouth shut and go along with other people’s suggestions and then I regretted last night that I didn’t speak up and suggest a different dinner destination. I knew we’d get ripped off and sure enough that’s exactly what happened. Mind you if we hadn’t gone, my colleagues would never have realised what I might have saved them from so I guess a lesson was had all round. We arrived at Barcelona airport on the flight from Amsterdam. It was my first time in the new terminal and I was impressed. T [di più]

La Balsa

Barcellona

98%

eccellente

[10.10.2010] On a recent trip to Barcelona the local colleagues invited us for dinner. We were a party of seven; the local boss and his marketing manager, two Dutch guys both called Robert and two Portuguese colleagues (Cristina and Se). Nobody eats early in Spain so our pick up at the hotel was booked for 8.30 and we rolled up outside the restaurant half an hour later. It was in an exclusive part of the city, near the base of Tibidabo mountain and it really didn’t look like the sort of place you’d find a restaurant tucked amongst the residential buildings. With a gravel garden and palm trees out front, I [di più]

NH Schiphol Airport

Haarlemmer meer

98%

eccellente

[10.10.2010] ~The Other Side of Amsterdam~ If you’re thinking of Amsterdam you’re probably picturing canals, cute tall gabled houses, maybe a bit of sleeze and a few dodgy coffee shops. That’s the Amsterdam of tourists. What I get more often than not is to stay in places by the airport which lack any character or pizzazz at all. In the past 10 years or so I’ve stayed in a lot of the hotels around Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport and can’t really say that any impressed me very much. There’s something undeniably debilitating about such ‘transit’ places and in a country that’s as well known for its laissez faire [di più]

Tipu Sultan's Palace

Bengaluru

97%

bene

[10.10.2010] In the days when the British were trying to stamp their mark on India, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali were thorns in their side. As other local leaders fell under the rule of the East India Company and the British army, Tipu Sultan fought back again and again, earning himself the nickname of the Tiger of Mysore. He wasn't a sultan - his father just gave him that name, a bit like Michael Jackson calling his son 'Prince Michael' but sometimes if you believe it enough, you can make a name into a title. If you visit the region between Hyderabad and Mysore as we did last year, you cannot fai [di più]

Lalbagh Garden

Bengaluru

95%

eccellente

[10.10.2010] If you had asked me what there was to see in Bangalore before we actually went there, then I would have struggled to tell you the main attractions with the exception of the Lal Bagh gardens and its famous greenhouse. Based on my very very basic knowledge of Hindi, I think Lal Bagh means 'red gardens' but I could well be wrong. What I did know was that it ranked near the top of the city's 'must see' list. Sunday afternoon was a good time to go since it seemed that the whole of the city was out in force to take a stroll in the city's biggest park. Unlike many attractions, this is one where be [di più]

Bangalore Palace

Bengaluru

95%

eccellente

[09.10.2010] Our guidebook had claimed that Bangalore Palace was only open for one week each year so we'd struck it off our target list for a visit. I'm not sure if the book was correct and we had just struck incredibly lucky with our timing but I suspect it's not open very often but certainly more than only one week per year. We were lucky that the auto-rickshaw driver who had pestered us until we finally gave in and agreed to go with him knew his stuff and urged us to let him take us to the palace. Bangalore Palace is a bizarre place that's not as old as you might expect but is every bit as weird as you [di più]

Charlecote Park

Warwick

97%

eccellente

[09.10.2010] One weekend in June our National Trust tickets were burning a hole in our wallets so we went online to the NT website to find out what we could access within an hour or so of our Northants home. We found a cluster of places between Warwick and Banbury which could be accessed in around an hour and which made sense to group together. Most National Trust aficionados will tell you that you shouldn’t get too ambitious. They pace themselves, considering a day per property to be about right. My husband and I are into hard core National Trust visiting. We are time poor people with a mission to max th [di più]

Siam House

York

94%

non male

[09.10.2010] During our recent trip toYork we’d decided that we didn’t want to eat at our hotel. The menu looked like good value but just wasn’t at all exciting, so as we wandered around the old city centre I had half an eye on the lookout for potential dinner venues. We made the mistake of stopping off for a drink in a bar over-looking the river for a late afternoon pre-dinner drink. The mistake was not the location or the bar- it was the ‘two for one’ on cocktails. I’m a real lightweight with alcohol and after whiling away an hour and a half sipping two absurd concoctions of gin, elderflower and apple ju [di più]

Paro Archery Grounds

Paro

93%

molto bene

[08.10.2010] The ancient art of "bows-and-arrows" is the National Sport of Bhutan and is the most common way for young men-folk to pass a Sunday afternoon. I did wonder if archery had grown from a history of hunting small furry critters for food but I was wrong. Archery is not about food, it's about war - shooting at invading Tibetan armies or fighting with your neighbours. In a country with mountainous terrain many of the usual forms or warfare have limited use and so archery remained an effective form of warfare long after the rest of the world had moved on to guns and missiles. On any Sunday afternoon [di più]

Cafe China at the Custom House

Cairns

96%

molto bene

[08.10.2010] On our first night in Cairns we'd arrived in the evening after a 26 hour flight from London to Sydney and a further 3 to 4 hour flight from Sydney to Cairns. Our body clocks were pretty confused by that point so we decided the worst thing we could do would probably be to go straight to sleep. We owed it to ourselves to get out and wander around, get some dinner and then go to sleep. Our wanderings brought us eventually to the Cafe China noodle bar. This was located on Abbott Street between the art museum and the casino. I loathe gambling and if I'd realised the business was connected to the ca [di più]

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