Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the northernmost of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain. It has a long and varied history, with invasions from the Norse, the Romans, the French and the English. For a country so steeped in history, it still punches above its weight in both the[…]
Houston we have a problem. Not really. Macdonald Houstoun House is a four-star historical mansion an hour from the centre of Edinburgh. We got off the bus at the main entrance to the property and walked down the picturesque tree lined driveway to the main entrance. Being an historic building,[…]
Leonardo Royal Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket is a stone’s throw away from the Haymarket train station and equidistant from the Edinburgh International Conference Centre making it a perfect place to stay for conferences and seminars. It’s laid out like two lower case L’s joined end to end and there’s one thing[…]
Edinburgh’s central suburbs each have different flavours of their own. The cosy Dean Village tucked away along the banks of the Waters of Leith was high on our list but the closest we could find accommodation was The Bonham, a stately hotel in a Georgian tenement block in Drumsheugh Gardens.[…]
We headed over the ditch to America, staying two to three days at six locations. What was our favourite part of the trip? We still can’t answer. There were three parts which really stood out: Ballooning over Albuquerque. Pure magic. Grand Canyon. Awe Inspiring. Antelope Canyon. Stunning colours and a[…]
I had in my head that West Jet was a low cost carrier and so was surprised when I found that they had a Business Class and that it looked on paper as though it was on par with the other full service carriers. It turns out that they were[…]
I had a WestJet flight business class flight from Calgary to London booked in and while they were a low cost carrier, it still got me access to the Aspire. There are two Aspires at Calgary, this is the one in the International Departures (not the US Departures). The entrance[…]
Day One We flew into Las Vegas on what was almost a private jet, being a half full Embraer ERJ-145. A quick cab ride later we’d arrived at the Bellagio and set about getting checked in. After oohing and ahhing at the room we set out to discover the Secret[…]
Our trek to the Venetian Resort from the Luxor should have been a cab ride. Should have been. If it was it would have cost a bit of money and we would have got there straight away. Instead we tried to save a little money by walking to the monorail[…]
We arrived at the Luxor Hotel by monorail, initially watching it go by twice as we failed to understand that there were two monorails; one going from Camelot, where we’d got on to the Mandalay Bay and back, while the other one going from Mandalay Bay to the Luxor. We[…]