Archive for March, 2006
Mar 23rd, 2006
Apartment Rentals in Paris
This site looks like it has some decent deals.
No internet in the apartments though. It would be ideal to find a place that had a computer and internet. Some of the places through Kudeta seem to have for a little extra cash.
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Mar 21st, 2006
Eurocheapo
This looks like a pretty good resource for cheap hotels in Europe.
I know there are tones of these sites around, but most seem to be light on information and heavy on promotion.
This one looks like it’s got a lot of information and opinions and not just about hotels. They’ve got some nice city guides as well.
I’ll add it to the resource sidebar.
Hotels for Amsterdam that look good:
Hotel Abba
Hotel Bema
Hotel de la Haye
Hotel de Lanterne
Hotel de Westertoren
Hotel Groenendael
Hotel La Bohème
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Mar 20th, 2006
La Cinèmathéque Française
Located at 51 rue de Bercy The Cinèmathéque Française is housed in the former home of the American Center. A building designed by Frank Gehry.
Here is a page with a little information about it.
When we were in Prague last year, I very much wanted to go see the Gehry building known as Fred and Ginger but completely spaced it until near the end of the last day of our visit, by which time it was too late. I hope I will not make the same mistake this time.
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Mar 17th, 2006
Rick Steves’ Audio Tours
Rick Steves’ is finally producing Audio versions of the walking tours in his books. And lucky us, he’s starting with Paris!
The first two up are audio guides for the Louvre and d’Orsay museums along with maps.
They can be downloaded from his site here or you can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes.
Next up is are tours of Versailles and an historic Paris walk.
This is great. I love to do the walking tours in his books when traveling, and it will be so much nicer not to have to carry around the books and stop to read every few minutes. This way is much more inconspicuous.
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Mar 16th, 2006
Site Maintenance
I’ve tweaked the code and layout of the site a little bit. Added some more links to the Resources list and a description of the blog.
I notice this blog is a bit light on the Amsterdam, I shall have to try to remedy that situation.
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