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 Although the construction of the new passenger
port in St.Petersburg is far from finished (in fact, it won't be
finished until at least 2011), the first cruise liner, the 292-meter long Costa Mediterranea, docked at a recently completed terminal on September 10th...
Read the rest of: "First Cruise Liner Docks in St.Petersburg's New Port"»  Starting this week, RENFE, the Spanish railroad company, is
increasing the frequency of its high-speed train service (AVE) between
Barcelona and Madrid by one third. Instead of the previous 19-20 scheduled
trains, there will be up to 26 daily departures in each direction. Two of
the newly added trains will be direct, making no stops, the others - local, extending the existing Madrid - Zaragoza line service...
Read the rest of: "More AVE Trains Between Madrid and Barcelona"»  Construction crews are still crawling over the central tower of the new
Hilton Garden Inn on Rue Sherbrooke,
but the hotel is already open for business, as made evident not only by the banner that says as much, but also by a quasi-permanent line of cabs picking up departing guests...
Read the rest of: "New Hilton Garden Inn / Centre-ville"»  Back in June, Parisian decorator Pascale Benhamou
finished her project for Hotel Plaza Athénée
in Paris's 8th arrondissement.
The lobby restaurant, La Galerie des Gobelins (named after Manufacture des
Gobelins - a former factory, now a museum, which supplied furniture to French
monarchs) got new carpet, furniture and redesigned lighting.
But actually, what caught our attention was not so much the decorative changes of
the space as the restaurant's updated menu, which features desserts by world
famous pastry chef Christophe Michalak, the winner of the 2005 "Coupe du Monde
de la Pâtisserie"...
Read the rest of: "La Galerie des Gobelins: New Look, Cute Cakes"»  On September 3rd, the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) opened a new terminal, 2G. The terminal will mostly serve flights within France (30%) and more broadly, within the Schengen zone (70%). Air France will be the principal carrier using it, along with three "partner" airlines (Régional, Brit Air,
CityJet) who are all, in fact, subsidiaries of Air France.
With the addition of 2G, airport Charles de Gaulle aims to improve transfer options between regional flights, strengthening its role as a European "hub" of Air France...
Read the rest of: "New Terminal (2G) at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport"»  Don't know about you, but I've always thought Italy was a bit of a scam as far as food is concerned, in a roundabout sort of way. You go there, you eat, you get exited - ecstatic even, you scribble the names of your new favorite dishes on any and every scrap of paper, you bring the scraps home, you go to your local Italian restaurant, order and then.. you realize it's really not the same. At all.
While I can't offer a real solution to this, I might be able to point you to somebody who can, at least when it comes to pasta dishes and Cucina bolognese in general. This is not one person but rather a group of individuals who run a small tourist-friendly cooking school called "La Vecchia Scuola Bolognese" (Bologna's Old School)...
Read the rest of: "Pasta Bolognese, Old School"»  If you're the type who just can't leave their work behind, even on vacation, Valencia may be the right place for you. Since July, the municipal government is running WiFi access points on two of the city's beaches - El Cabanyal and La Malvarrosa...
Read the rest of: "Valencia Beaches Going Wireless"»  Back in July, Apple opened a flagship store in Montreal of which yours truly has already had an opportunity to be a customer.
The store is ninth in the list of Apple's flagship stores world-wide (the others are in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, London, Tokyo, Osaka and New York) and the first of the kind in Canada...
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