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351 Rue St-Paul Ouest, Montreal, QC Bakery w/ Sandwiches $ to $$ — About CAD 9 – 11 for lunch
After the walking tour, we remained in Vieux Montreal and explored Rue St. Paul. Vieux Montreal, as we learned on our walking tour, is mostly inhabited by tourists. The main street, Rue St. Paul, is lined with restaurants and souvenir shops, and dotted in between is the typical crowd pleaser painted up in gold and throwing gold beads to the crowd–leave it to the Canadians and misinformed college freshmen that body paint is cool.
Love the sign, so typical of Quebec on many levels: [...]
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Good values that I’m seeing:
Holiday Inn Resort Krabi Ao Nang Beach – Good Thailand beach destination resort, prices usually $150+ InterContinental Hanoi Westlake – Good TripAdvisor ratings, prices usually $180+, pretty unique looking hotelList is as follows:
COUNTRYSTATEPROPERTYSample price CanadaAlbertaHoliday Inn Express Red Deer$123 CanadaBritish Columbia Holiday Inn Osoyoos $111 CanadaBritish [...]
Saturday morning, we were hunting around online to figure out what to do. We had heard great things about Fitz & Follwell Co. bike tours (TripAdvisor), but they didn’t appear to handle last minute reservations very well online and the 4-hour bike tour of the whole city left at 10 a.m. from the Plateau Royal district – the opposite side of town from us. Instead, we discovered that Guidatour (http://www.guidatour.qc.ca/) offers walking tours of Vieux Montreal daily during the summer, departing from Notre Dame (luckily, 5 minutes away from us).
Guidatour review: Tickets are about $20/person for a 90 min tour, which includes a brief visit into Notre Dame. Our tour [...]
2694 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd, Durham, NC Diner style with sandwiches/subs, salads and breakfast $ – Appx $9 for lunch
When you walk into Foster’s, you get the impression that this place is a local institution — and not just because it feels like it has been around for a very long while. They’ve got that old country store feel going on, and not the fake feeling Cracker Barrel style (in a side note, I ate at a Cracker Barrel recently for the first time in like 10 years and had NO IDEA that they were so blatantly racist at one time. That went right over my head as a kid. Just check out their Wikipedia: “In 2004, an investigation by [...]
As of March 1, 2013, Delta and Starwood started a promotion, or rather a partnership, where you can link your SkyMiles account to your Starwood account and earn even more points.
Delta has already start posting some of the bonus to my SkyMiles account for staying at Starwood properties. Interestingly, they even included a stay on Feb 27, two days before the program officially began!
And, the points match the # of base Starpoints I received (the $ amount of the stay). So, it seems as if the system is up and running (although it’s still a little spotty) and it seems they’ll be posting in batches every few weeks.
750 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA Seafood $$ to $$$
The Fish Market, situated in an amazing spot on San Diego’s Bay, has all the markings of a tourist trap. It is in an iconic location, right next to the USS Midway, and benefits from plenty of foot traffic.
That’s on the surface; deep down, they seem to take their food seriously. The prices aren’t horrific and, unlike most touristy seafood places, they don’t just dump it all in a fryer. They’re actually using fresh seafood and taste-forward preparations.
They’ve got a huge menu with selections from their sushi bar (and how could a fresh fish place not have sushi), oyster bar, and main [...]
90 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC Himalayan (Read: Indian) $$ — Typical entrees $11.95 – $14.95
For a whole town that feels like its full of failed climbers just stuck a little too long at base camp, where better to try than the restaurant that epitomizes the whole city of Asheville? Now, when they say Himalayan, just think Indian. Lots of rice, curry, lentils and great smelling, rich and pungent spices. The colorful restaurant had some very low-key, chill theme music on in an effort to transport you to Nepal and, with the bright colored interior with a tall vaulted ceiling, I would say they get high marks on the atmosphere. They brought out [...]We woke up early Sunday to be at the Roraima offices/Residence Inn hotel by 7:15am–the departure point for the tour. Meanwhile, the vans were out collecting our fellow tour-goers from the other Roraima property: Duke Lodge. Transport appeared to be free if you’re staying at one of their properties. To everyone else, including us, you get a giant “screw you” and are told to arrange your own transportation. No big deal, though.
By 8am, all 12 of us were there and we piled onto a bus and started on our 48 min ride to the dock.
Arriving to the dock around 9am, the sun was still rising, the air crisp, fresh and cool with a perfectly still and calm [...]
