Posts from ‘travel’
Cameron House
Ok, I´ll admint it. I am a sucker for nice Hotels. It doesn´t have to be expensive and luxury all the way but it does have to have personality. Sometimes being at a 5 star hotel is too much because I can´t relate to most people staying there. Cameron House is something else though. You don´t have to interact with other guests that much. You take a walk along Loch Lomond. Sipping a single malt in their whisky bar or maybe reading a good crime novel.
It´s a place to return to.
Bobby belonged to John Gray, who worked for the Edinburgh City Police as a night watchman, and the two were inseparable for approximately two years. On 8 February 1858, Gray died of tuberculosis. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Bobby, who survived Gray by fourteen years, is said to have spent the rest of his life sitting on his master’s grave. Another account has it that he spent a great deal of time at Gray’s grave, but that he left regularly for meals at a restaurant beside the graveyard, and may have spent colder winters in nearby houses. Full article on wiki
I love this story and how people still go there to honor Bobby the Skye Terrier.
Horten, Tuborg Havn. While recently in Copenhagen we were guided by this book (Ny Arkitektur i Hovedstaden Copenhagen X 2009, 2010) on new Danish Architecture. We didn´t cover all the buildings. But plenty. Here´s a start.
Time for some changes around here. I moved my hosting to netzorz a good choice. I added a new theme to my wordpress in order to show images a bit larger. There are still tweaks to be made to the overall experience but I can´t wait to try it out :)
The image was taken in Bangkok rcently after a nice sushi dinner with a friend. She took me here because we needed some neon!
Got back after an intense and exciting week in Egypt. Visited Cairo, Hurghada and Luxor. As much as I like Cairo and was surprised by its niceness I must say that Hurghada was not my favorite spot. Sure the water was fantastic but there is something weird about a place made up solely for tourists. A place where the local people works in tourism, hardly have a beach to visit should they get a day off from work because all properties have been bought by hotels.
Seeing all this great historian places was overwhelming and a bit mind boggling. I had to go superficial and post a picture taken at the market in Cairo.
