a guess:
Phoenix hotel in Nanning
I don't understand, Letty. Most of the names on the map are east of Xian, which is somewhere in the middle of China.
Since I posted that (it took a while), CI said the city was to the south...
osso, Right! It's the Peninsula in Hong Kong. When you walk into the front entrance of the hotel, you will walk into the lobby where they have those tables on both sides to serve their 'high' tea. Rooms are pretty pricey here - starts at about $700/nite.
Right, and my friends probably got the better type room... that's their way...
I of course represent the plankton of hotel guests...
but, I've alway enjoyed hotels, not quite sure where that started but I have a quick guess.
My dad was gone most of my early years, being a major and then colonel and so on in the AAF in WWII and then with a big overseas project. I got letters sweetly written from him..
And when he was around when I was a bit older, say, seven, I heard about places like the Mayflower in Washington DC probably as something to talk about for him to daughter as stranger. Me, I visited the Mayflower 40 years later, to make some sense of his life.
I just plain old love hotels.
osso, I can understand your interest in hotels, even though I stay in 2, 3 and 4 star accommodations when I'm on my own. While on group tours, I've stayed at some 5 and 6 star hotels, and some are just plain ritzy! When I hear about some great hotels at destinations I'm traveling to, I'll step into the lobby of the hotel just to take a peek. Might even visit the bar for a drink. Hotels definitely have their own ambiance, and I've stayed in some of the worst and best.
Now that I've visited the Raffles hotel in Singapore a couple of times and had a few drinks in the Long Bar, I can now picture it in my mind's eye. That's all part of the enjoyment of travel.
There was the book and the movie - Hotel. Of course I liked both, however bad they were.
I could even read it and see the movie again.
All right, I have a link to post somewhere here in my clips for a new question...
Get harder to find pictures.
That photo earlier was of Flamengo Beach and Parque in Rio - designed by Roberto Burle Marx. This is looking in the other direction -
Somerset House, London, England.
tico, You're right; it's the Somerset House. This place has significance because the geologist Robert Smith received one of his awards here, and also for the Courtauld Gallery that houses some great paintings.
Where am I?
(No, the Country is not difficult.
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Is this in the midwest US?
Looks like the kind of hotel I would enjoy.
I would say NE US.
