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One other meal-time subject requires special attention, because it involves the most popular lunch-time restaurant of the average Englishman-the pubs. Nearly every pub in London serves either hot or cold …
London Pub Lunches Read MoreEphesus; ultimately from Hittite Apasa) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the …
Ephesus Izmir Sights and local attractions Read MoreAgrigento Hotel is located near Erdek, offering 120 rooms, 38 suites, 300 beds all with direct dial telephone, private bathroom, music system, satellite TV, aircondition, hair dryer, refrigerator, minibar, balcony. …
Agrigento Hotel, Erdek Read MoreAlanya , formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a component district of Antalya Province on the southern coast of Turkey, in the country’s Mediterranean Region, 138 kilometres (86 …
Alanya, Antalya Sights and local attractions Read More
The French riviera is a never-never land for many American tourists. Tales of outrageous prices, of extortion-type menus and hijacking hotel bills, have all combined to scare the more cautious …
Hotel Costs in Nice, French Riviera Read More
Michigan Avune, from the river to Randolph Street, is a wide thoroughfare between towering buildings. South of Randolph Street the lake side of the avenue opens on Grant Park, but …
From the Chicago River on Michigan Ave Read More
The Loop, the crowded rectangle between Wabash Avenue and Lake, Wells, and Van Buren Streets, is bound round with a steel band of elevated tracks, upon which converge trains from …
Chicago: The Loop and Vicinity Read More
By 1900, Chicago, which already had more Scandinavians and Dutch than any other city in the United States, became the Nation’s largest Polish, Lithuanian, Bohemian, Croatian, and Greek settlement. After …
Chicago’s History 1900 – 1930 Read More
Times were indeed lush at the tip of the lake. Typical of the almost Hollywoodian order of things in that period was the case of the bankrupt backwoods tailor who …
Chicago’s History 1800s Read More
Social life was a melange of the “humbug and frippery of an eastern city” and backwoods crudities, of New England ideals of education and religion, and frontier ribaldry. Churches were …
Chicago History 1800s Read More