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Soneva Gili Villa Suites [210 sq.m.]
* 29 water villas with king size bed and some with two single beds
* Large open air living room with daybeds and dining area
* Roof top sun deck with daybed and two different dining facilities
* Over water sun deck with sun loungers
* Open-air private bathroom with separate glass walled shower area
* Bathtub and shower
* Air-conditioned bedroom
* Ceiling fan in living room
* Chess and backgammon tables
* Espresso Machine
* Mini bar, personal safe and hairdryer
* CD, DVD, Hi Fi Stereo system with Bose surround sound
* Television with satellite channels and DVD/CD player
* Extensive DVD and CD library
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Location: Soneva Gili by Six Senses / Maldives
Looking west across Scapa Flow from Holm towards that Semi-Submersible Accommodation Rig. Beyond it - in the background - are the high hills on Hoy Island.
I heard recently that apparently the "Safe Zephyrus" accommodation platform is due to leave Scapa Flow very soon to engage in a new oilfield support-contract.
Assimilation and Accommodation are the two complementary processes of Adaptation described by Piaget, through which awareness of the outside world is internalised. Although one may predominate at any one moment, they are inseparable and exist in a dialectical relationship.
In Assimilation, what is perceived in the outside world is incorporated into the internal world
In Accommodation, the internal world has to accommodate itself to the evidence with which it is confronted and thus adapt to it, which can be a more difficult and painful process.
In reality, both are going on at the same time, so that—just as the mower blade cuts the grass, the grass gradually blunts the blade—although most of the time we are assimilating familiar material in the world around us, nevertheless, our minds are also having to adjust to accommodate it.
Alternate title-BEAM ME UP SCOTTY
BEST ASSIMILATED IN ORIGINAL SIZE
Our accommodation in London was located a short walk from the British Museum, so with a little bit of time to kill on Sunday morning, we made our way there. I'm a big fan of museums and history in general.
You really could spend a week in London and not see half of the tourist 'hot spots'.
I do need to make a return journey sooner rather than later.
(I had both the Canon DSLR and the Sony 'point and shoot' with me on the trip, so was using the Sony while strolling 'round the British Museum).
Built before 1975, Ngoc Lan cinema was reconstructed and transformed into Ngoc Lan hotel in 1981 to meet the rising needs for hotel accommodation in Dalat after the end of the war.
Located in the center of Dalat city, on a poetic hill and overlooking the picturesque Xuan Huong lake, Ngoc Lan has been a favorite hotel of most travelers to Dalat for many years.
New Ngoc Lan Hotel is now magnificent for its 91 modern rooms, spacious lobby, bars, international standard conference halls, Wifi internet connection, a private underground parking, sky view restaurant & bar overlooking the whole Dalat panorama and inherited location in the heart of Dalat city, next to the famous Central market, on the city walking street, overlooking fascinating Xuan Huong lake, within walking distance to the city key office buildings, banks, post offices, shopping centers, dining and entertainment establishments , convenient access to the most of tourist spots, etc .
Located on the top of a beautiful hill, Ngoc Lan is a hotel that offers a panoramic view of Dalat, the picturesque hill station in the Southern part of Vietnam. Breathtaking view of the romantic Xuan Huong Lake from the rooms and the open terrace of this four star hotel has turned it into an ideal destination for tourists.
Built in unique Asian-European architectural pattern, Ngoc Lan Hotel in Dalat City is also well known for offering comfortable accommodation facility to its guests. Falling under the category of a four star hotel, Ngoc Lan Hotel offers a variety of accommodation facility in its guest rooms. There are 91 luxurious guest rooms in this four star hotel, which also include some suites that are ideal for both tourists and business travelers. One can choose from a number of standard, superior and deluxe rooms or may opt for any of the junior, executive and president suites.
Being a four star hotel, Ngoc Lan offers spacious and elegantly furnished guest rooms and suites that are equipped with comfortable sitting and sleeping arrangements. You will find superior quality furnitures and textiles inside all rooms in this hotel. Besides, a host of modern facilities are also available in the rooms that include remote controlled air- conditioning, flat screen LCD TV with satellite channels,video on demand, telephone, high speed internet access and tea, coffee making facility.
Apart from these, room facilities at Ngoc Lan Dalat Vietnam include refrigerator, a well stocked mini bar, safe deposit boxes for storing valuable belongings and attached private bathrooms that are equipped with bathrob or shower, branded toilet accessories and hairdryer. View of the city from the large window is an added facility for people staying in the standard rooms while some can enjoy view of the beautiful Xuan Huong Lake from the superior rooms and the suits.
Add: 42 Nguyễn Chí thanh Street. Dalat City. Vietnam
Autobahnbau N2, Baulos Sissach-Eptingen, Baselland, Schweiz. Showing the access road from the Kantonsstrasse and village, it leads to a new bridge under the Autobahn.
The L shaped site buildings house the kitchen and cantine for the workforce. The accommodation buildings are off to the left of this photo. Frau Franciolli and her staff provided excellent meals for about 300 men 3 times a day!
I lived on-site here 4 nights a week for almost a year, commuting weekly from my flat in Binningen BL.
Eventually I found an apartment in Diepflingen BL, a village in the next valley and from there sometimes cycled to work over the intervening hill range.
St. Peter's Church, dating from the 13th century, overlooks the village.
The Baskunchak, an accommodation barge, and my home for the time spent offshore - my cabin was above the letter 'H'.
She was a comfortable place to stay, with good food and a friendly crew - being over 120m long and 20m wide also meant that she was stable in some of the rougher seas we had at times.
The helideck at the rear looks nice, but is currently uncertified for any type of helicopter. The blue containers at the bow provide additional cabins when needed, but were not used on this project.
Taken from the SV Yaguar, a supply vessel belonging to Enka, as we departed for the 16 hour journey back to Bautino.
This is in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, undertaking a geotechnical investigation.
Built by the Public Works Department for a princely £7,000.00, the Mount Buffalo Chalet was opened in 1910 by the Victorian State Government as Australia’s first ski lodge, and it quickly became a popular destination within the alpine region. Initially leased to private enterprise as a guest house, The Chalet was taken over by Victorian Railways in October 1924. Described as the “last word in luxury”, The Chalet featured large sitting rooms, ample fireplaces, a smoking room, well ventilated rooms of capacious size and hot and cold baths. They offered holiday packages with train services running to Porpunkah railway station and then a connecting Hoys Roadlines service. It was a very popular destination for newlyweds as the perfect place for a honeymoon, and over the years traditions began to emerge such as an elegant dress code within The Chalet, a dinner gong to announce dinner, costume parties and grand balls in The Chalet’s ballroom.
Originally intended to be built in granite, cost blowouts of £3,000.00 meant that instead The Chalet was built of timber. To this day, it is still the largest timber construction in Victoria. It was designed in the fashionable Arts and Crafts style of the period. Reminiscent in style to northern European Chalet architecture, the Mt Buffalo Chalet is built on a coursed random rubble plinth, with a series of hipped and gabled corrugated iron roofs. Originally designed as a symmetrical, gabled roof building, early additions were carried out in a similar style and continued the symmetry of the front facade. The second storey addition to the central wing altered the appearance of the building, however the bungalow character was retained. Slender rough cast render chimneys with tapering tops and random coursed rubble bases, a decorative barge board over the main entry, decorative timber brackets supporting timber shingled gable ends, exposed rafters and double hung, paned windows are all typical architectural details of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was constructed over a thirty year period during which time extensions, extra wings and outbuildings were added and removed with the changing times and its tourism demands. Improvements were made soon after construction and these included a golf links in 1911, a north wing addition in 1912 and a south wing and billiard room in 1914. Heating and lighting in The Chalet was improved and upgraded in 1919. Between 1921 and 1922, an addition to the south wing increased bedroom and bathroom facilities. The billiard room was moved to the front of the house and the terraced garden, with rubble granite retaining walls, was laid out at the front of The Chalet. The present dining room, the kitchen and billiard room wings were constructed in 1925, and the original dining room was converted to a ballroom, with a stage. Balustrading along the front of the building was removed and large windows inserted to provide uninterrupted views. Between 1937 and 1938 major alterations were made with the extension of the south wing and a second storey added to the central wing of the building. At this time the provisions for two hundred guests at The Chalet was noted as more than equalling the best Melbourne hotels. Internally, some remnants of decoration remain, reflecting various stages of The Chalet’s development, and these can be viewed through The Chalet’s large windows, where several suites, the lounge and the dining room are all set up to display what the accommodation was like. The formal terraced gardens built around the Mount Buffalo Chalet were seen as a civilising image within the context of the wild and relatively harsh Australian landscape. The key built features if the gardens seen today remain intact. The garden’s shape and form remain largely unchanged from when they were created including the stonewalling, terracing, central set of stairs and exposed bedrock.
The Mount Buffalo Chalet is lovingly sometimes referred to as the “Grand Old Lady”. If nothing else, she is a unique survivor of the earliest days of recreational skiing in Australia. It was included on the Victorian Heritage Register in 1992 and is maintained today as a time capsule to show what life was like when tourism was done on a grand scale.
A bronze statue of William III of England stands on the south side of Kensington Palace in London, facing towards the Golden Gates. The statue was designed by Heinrich Baucke and erected in 1907. It was cast by the Gladenbeck foundry in Berlin and given as a gift by the German Emperor Wilhelm II to his uncle, King Edward VII. The statue has been a Grade II listed building since 1969.
The statue was created as one of five large statues of the Princes of Orange – the Oranierfürsten – commissioned by Wilhelm II and erected in 1907 on the balustrade of the terrace on the north side of the Berliner Schloss, beside the Lustgarten in Berlin. The statues were intended to illustrate the close relationship between the Dutch House of Orange and the German House of Hohenzollern, and they echo similar statues by François Dieussart erected by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, in the pleasure garden of the City Palace, Potsdam. Copies of each statue were also commissioned and presented as gifts: the originals were damaged in the Second World War and four were destroyed. (The statue of Maurice of Orange by Martin Wolff survived, and was displayed beside Humboldt Box.) Most of the copies have survived, including the statue in London.
The bronze statue is 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) high, with the subject depicted at larger than life size. He wears 17th-century military dress, including an ornate feathered hat, sword and cuirass, and high leather boots. The figure stands on a 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) Portland stone pedestal which was designed by Aston Webb, who would later create the Victoria Memorial in London.
The front of the pedestal bears the inscription:
William III / of Orange / King of Great Britain / and Ireland / 1689–1702 / Presented by William II / German Emperor and / King of Prussia / to King Edward VII / for the British Nation / 1907
A popular story states that the design of the character Captain Hook was inspired by the statue.
Heinrich Karl Baucke (born April 15, 1875 in Düsseldorf ; † April 12 or April 13 , 1915 in Ratingen ) was a German neo -baroque sculptor .
Life
Heinrich Baucke studied sculpture at the art academy with Karl Janssen from 1891 to 1900 . His first success was the bronze figure Victor in the Fistfight , which can now be seen in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . He settled in Düsseldorf as a freelance sculptor and became involved in the local “Association of Academic Sculptors”, which sought to represent the interests of Rhenish sculptors against competition from Berlin. In 1903 he moved to Berlin , where he carried out several commissions from Kaiser Wilhelm II , including the statue of Wilhelm III. from Oranien-Nassau on the pleasure garden terrace of the Berlin Palace . Heinrich Bauke died on April 12th or 13th, 1915 in Ratingen.
Works
1897: Bronze figure winner in the fist fight , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, replica in front of the Nationalgalerie Berlin
1900: Bust of the German Emperor Wilhelm I for the memorial in Rotthausen
1902: King Friedrich I statue, on the Neumarkt, Moers
1904: Statue of Electress Louise Henriette , wife of the Great Elector , in front of the castle , Moers
1907: Statue of Wilhelm III. from Oranien-Nassau , pleasure garden terrace of the Berlin Palace, Berlin (destroyed, a second cast is in Kensington Palace, London)
1909: Bronze statues of King Frederick I of Prussia and Queen Sophie Charlotte at the Charlottenburg Gate , Berlin
1909: Wilhelm Greef fountain as a monument to the seminar teacher and founder of the Moers men's choir, Moers Castle Park
Facade statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. at the town hall, Elberfeld (melted down)
Moltke and Bismarck busts, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He ruled Britain and Ireland alongside his wife, Queen Mary II, and their joint reign is known as that of William and Mary.
William was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange, and Mary, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His father died a week before his birth, making William III the prince of Orange from birth. In 1677, he married his first cousin Mary, the eldest daughter of his maternal uncle James, Duke of York, the younger brother and later successor of King Charles II.
A Protestant, William participated in several wars against the powerful Catholic French ruler Louis XIV in coalition with both Protestant and Catholic powers in Europe. Many Protestants heralded William as a champion of their faith. In 1685, his Catholic uncle and father-in-law, James, became king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain, who feared a revival of Catholicism. Supported by a group of influential British political and religious leaders, William invaded England in what became known as the Glorious Revolution. In 1688, he landed at the south-western English port of Brixham; James was deposed shortly afterward.
William's reputation as a staunch Protestant enabled him and his wife to take power. During the early years of his reign, William was occupied abroad with the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), leaving Mary to govern Britain alone. She died in 1694. In 1696 the Jacobites, a faction loyal to the deposed James, plotted unsuccessfully to assassinate William and restore the deposed James to the throne. William's lack of children and the death in 1700 of his nephew the Duke of Gloucester, the son of his sister-in-law Anne, threatened the Protestant succession. The danger was averted by placing William and Mary's cousins, the Protestant Hanoverians, in line to the throne after Anne with the Act of Settlement 1701. Upon his death in 1702, William was succeeded in Britain by Anne and as titular Prince of Orange by his cousin John William Friso.
ensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British royal family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank and their two sons.
Today, the State Rooms are open to the public and managed by the independent charity Historic Royal Palaces, a nonprofit organisation that does not receive public funds. The offices and private accommodation areas of the palace remain the responsibility of the Royal Household and are maintained by the Royal Household Property Section. The palace also displays many paintings and other objects from the Royal Collection.
History
King William III and Queen Mary II
Kensington Palace was originally a two-storey Jacobean mansion built by Sir George Coppin in 1605 in the village of Kensington.
Shortly after William and Mary assumed the throne as joint monarchs in 1689, they began searching for a residence better suited for the comfort of the asthmatic William, as Whitehall Palace was too near the River Thames, with its fog and floods, for William's fragile health.
In the summer of 1689, William and Mary bought the property, then known as Nottingham House, from the Secretary of State Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea, for £20,000. They instructed Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor of the King's Works, to begin an immediate expansion of the house. In order to save time and money, Wren kept the structure intact and added a three-storey pavilion at each of the four corners, providing more accommodation for the King and Queen and their attendants. The Queen's Apartments were in the north-west pavilion and the King's in the south-east.
Wren re-oriented the house to face west, building north and south wings to flank the approach, made into a proper cour d'honneur that was entered through an archway surmounted by a clock tower. The palace was surrounded by straight cut solitary lawns, and formal stately gardens, laid out with paths and flower beds at right angles, in the Dutch fashion. The royal court took residence in the palace shortly before Christmas 1689. For the next seventy years, Kensington Palace was the favoured residence of British monarchs, although the official seat of the Court was and remains at St. James's Palace, which has not been the actual royal residence in London since the 17th century.
Additional improvements soon after included Queen Mary's extension of her apartments, by building the Queen's Gallery. After a fire in 1691, the King's Staircase was rebuilt in marble and a Guard Chamber was constructed, facing the foot of the stairs. William had constructed the South Front, to the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor, which included the Kings' Gallery where he hung many works from his picture collection. Mary II died of smallpox in the palace in 1694. In 1702, William suffered a fall from a horse at Hampton Court and was brought to Kensington Palace, where he died shortly afterwards from pneumonia.
Around 6,500 police and security personnel are being drafted into Cornwall for the G7 meeting in St Ives this weekend. The Silja Europa owned by Finnish company Tallink is moored in Falmouth docks for accommodation. Normally it is used for cruising the Baltic.
We stayed overnight at the Lesedi Cultural Village. It it s real cultural experience showing the village life of the Basotho, Ndebele, Pedi, Xhosa & Zulu people. We were treated to a tribal dance show and "Nyama Choma" the greatest African feast where we sampled traditional dishes from around the African continent.