Category: travel
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I ♥ NY: High Above Bryant Park
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNvgpJdc8R8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] Before I left NYC, I visited an ex-colleague who works in an office that overlooks Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. His office, facing east on the 31st floor has floor-to-ceiling glass window. Chrysler building, NYC Library, Empire State building, and Bryant Park’s ice-rink in Christmas are all in full view. The vista is breathtaking.
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Lakeside Restaurant at Hotel Beaulac
While I was staying at Hotel Beaulac, I ate quite a few meals at the hotel restaurant – Lakeside. It has a modern dining room with some traditional-looking cabinets with desserts inside, a bar with fluorescent liquors, and a sushi bar. The sushi was surprising fresh and of very high quality considering Switzerland is land-locked. Sushi…
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A Room With A View
When I arrived in Switzerland at the end of January, I stayed at the Hotel Beaulac during my first week because the company apartment was not yet ready. The hotel is on the lake front but apparently I was not important enough to be given a room with the lake view. My window faces the…
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Lausanne at Night
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlc7wnSpko&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] This 360° video is taken from Bel-Air, which is kind of like the Union Square of Lausanne. Lausanne is very hilly. Its center sits on top of several hilltops linked my bridges. The hilltops and the valleys in between are connected by public elevators and stairs. Several levels of parking garages and shops are…
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Maps: Playa del Carmen
[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=51+Grand+Cove+Way,+Edgewater,+Bergen,+New+Jersey+07020&t=h&layer=c&cbll=20.609414,-87.089393&panoid=Q5b3JvBt7kbjb9V4m3ioJQ&cbp=13,137.84,,0,-2.54&ll=20.609368,-87.089396&spn=0,359.975882&z=15&source=embed&output=svembed&w=562&h=314] Peiling suggested in a comment that I should include a map of the area visited along with my travel-related posts. So, here is a couple of maps for the earlier posts relating to our November trip to Riviera Maya. You can see these posts here: Traffic Jam @ EWR Adventuras de Chris y Sue Six…
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A Most Beautiful Drive in Iceland
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0BgQVAZZC4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] This place is one of the most beautiful and serene places I have ever visited. We were in Iceland during the summer and happened on this stunning view of Þingvallavatn on our first day out of Reykjavik to do the Golden Circle sights (Gullfoss, Geysir, Þingvellir). I was driving at about 15-20 mph while Sis filmed the…