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Posts made in October, 2011

Casino Hopping In Las Vegas

Posted by on Oct 9, 2011 in Travel | 4 comments

Up until this point, my reference of a glamorous casino was Crown Casino in Melbourne; one I had frequented often, and loved, not because of the roulette tables and pokies machines (though I do hang around the gambling floor a bit, too!), but because for starters, the sheer size of it was at least ten times bigger than the casino in the state I live in. Not only that, but for a casino, it also houses a great selection of food courts, restaurants of every cuisine, designer shops, and its very...

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Two Worlds, Less Than A Day!

Posted by on Oct 3, 2011 in Travel | 0 comments

From the grandeur of The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel… For our last two nights in New York, my darling husband generously put us up in The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. Even by browsing through their website, we were treated to a sense of luxury like no other. Having stayed at ‘The Manhattan Club’ on the West side, and Bedford Hotel on the East side, we knew that stepping into The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel would be like entering another world; one in which you need to thoroughly research and...

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Temperature Drop

Posted by on Oct 2, 2011 in Travel | 0 comments

During our last week in the Big Apple, the weather from day to day fluctuated greatly. We had a few days of continuous rain, cooling the ninety-degree heat we had had throughout the week prior and fogging up Empire State Building normally visible from our hotel window. On the last day, the temperature dropped by quite a few degrees; the passing breeze brought a certain chill that made you cross your arms for extra warmth. And as we passed Rockefeller Center, the transformation taking place in...

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The Wonderful, The Peculiar, And The Downright Bizarre

Posted by on Oct 1, 2011 in Travel | 2 comments

I’m kind of taking a leaf from the expression ‘The Good, The Bad And The Ugly’, but since ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ don’t really apply, I’ve come up with my own title above. Most of the stories depicted below will be about food, though a small portion will be simply about occurrences we’ve encountered during our travel. The Wonderful Almost everything food-wise we’ve encountered in US were simply… divine. For one, they had...

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