China - Reflections on our last trip to China !
China - Reflections on our last trip to China ! Read our previous posting at “Yangshuo and the Li River cruise” ASTOUNDING PROGRESS & MANY CHANGES since our last visit to China in the mid’90’s … Where are the bikes in China …? During our visit to the Chinese mainland in the ‘90’s, we saw few cars…
A Royal Welcome at the Taj Nadesar Palace !
Nadesar Palace. The Taj Nadesar Palace Hotel is a property owned by the maharajah of Varanasi and managed by Taj Hotels. There are only ten suites in this luxurious hotel. Ours happens to be the Queen Elizabeth Suite, so named because that is where Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip stayed on February 25th and…
How to get really close to the Giant Panda bears!
Giant Panda Bears. The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on the outskirts of Chengdu in the Sichuan province of China is one of the best locations in the world to get exposed to the giant pandas (called giant only to distinguish them from the smaller red pandas). More than one million visitors per…
Nice, France ~ Le Chantecler and Musee Matisse de Cimiez
Highlights of the day Today had been planned for more than two months as a pilgrimage to the best food experience in Nice, lunch at the Michelin two-star restaurant of the Hotel Negresco, le Chantecler. By the way, a chantecler is a special breed of rooster which was developed in Oka, Quebec in the 1920s…
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