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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: The Beginning and the End of Duncan
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Sunday, May 31, 2015. The Beginning and the End of Duncan. GRAND ALBERGO TIMEO -. Originally appeared in November 2012). Duncan at the Timeo 1980. Was conceived at the Timeo Hotel. At least that is the story he told. Americans of means, his parents came to. On their honeymoon a year or so before the outbreak of the First World War. They spent a season in. And established a lifelong affection with the Timeo. The Timeo garden terrace today. Shortly after the end of the Secon...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: En Route To Miami With The Farrells
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Friday, July 10, 2015. En Route To Miami With The Farrells. This posting originally appeared in May 2013). The Fontainebleau Hotel, the early years (Library of Congress). The same year of my first trip to. With the Farrell family. Graham was my best friend in grammar school, and he often accompanied us to the Carthage Hotel for Sunday lunch ( see Musing N° 2 of Sept. 7, 2012. In fact, it was he who first mutilated those plastic table coverings. Graham and I were jumping up...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: August 2014
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Friday, August 29, 2014. Clementina, Lady of the Manor. GRAND ALBERGO TIMEO -. When I met Clementina La Floresta, she had already been at the Timeo for nearly seventy years. She was closing in on ninety and her mind had begun to waver, but she was often alert and retained a sharp memory for the distant past. She had arrived in. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday to marry the owner of the esteemed Timeo, already a. Landmark after several decades of activity. At a time wh...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: May 2015
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Sunday, May 31, 2015. The Beginning and the End of Duncan. GRAND ALBERGO TIMEO -. Originally appeared in November 2012). Duncan at the Timeo 1980. Was conceived at the Timeo Hotel. At least that is the story he told. Americans of means, his parents came to. On their honeymoon a year or so before the outbreak of the First World War. They spent a season in. And established a lifelong affection with the Timeo. The Timeo garden terrace today. Shortly after the end of the Secon...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: Living It Up On A Budget
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Friday, April 24, 2015. Living It Up On A Budget. HOTEL BRISTOL, Paris. Sunday afternoon at the Bristol. Originally posted February 2013/the improved dollar has kept the price about the same). Times are kind of hard, and some days we just have to face facts. As I tell the grandchildren (which for some reason sends them into great gales of laughter):. 8220;Money does not grow on trees! Consequently, I figure I can count my blessings, savor. As high living goes, coffee at the.
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: September 2014
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Danny, the Night Porter . THE GRITTI PALACE, Venice circa 1990. Anonymous oil of the Grand Canal (collection Marion Vu Dinh). On one of my early stays at the Gritti, I had a wonderful package which included full breakfast and lots of perks –flowers and wine and cheese and fruit. It was the week before Christmas and I was one of their rare clients. Everywhere I turned the staff amazingly called me by name. The Gritti, Christmas 1992. He looked m...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: February 2015
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Wednesday, February 18, 2015. THE DRAYCOTT HOTEL,. And the GEORGE V,. This musing originally appeared in April 2013). Classic Diana Dors circa 1954. She was widely known as the British Marilyn. I wonder how many people today even remember Diana Dors, the hugely popular movie star of the 1950. Before I begin, let me point out that I never officially met Diana Dors. Our paths did cross, however, and on several occasions. Century phenomenon of celebrity and paparazzi. I had r...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: March 2015
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Sunday, March 22, 2015. The Paris Riots of 1968. HOTEL DE LILLE, Paris. This musing originally appeared in June 2013). Paris seriously heating up, May 1968 (AFP photo). I would be hard put to choose the absolute grandest hotel I have ever known, but I would have no problem whatsoever in discerning the least grand of them all:. The Hotel de Lille. He had explained that it was a real Parisian’s hotel, with none of that private bathtub-toilet foolishness. I may have been coun...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: October 2014
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Friday, October 24, 2014. Around And About Hanoi. HOTEL METROPOLE, Hanoi. Hanoi street scene 2003, the way it was. I’ve been to. On three occasions, and always stayed at the venerable Hotel Metropole,. The first time, thanks to a low-cost United alliance package, followed stopovers in. For a world traveler I’m not much of an adventurer; my destinations are much influenced by where the mythic hotels are to be found. The off-season summer in. I labored for days on the letter...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings: Clementina, Still Lady of the Manor ...
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Frank Pleasants' Hotel Musings. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Clementina, Still Lady of the Manor . GRAND ALBERGO TIMEO -. This musing was originally posted in October 2012). When I met Clementina La Floresta, she had already been at the Timeo for nearly seventy years. She was closing in on ninety and her mind had begun to waver, but she was often alert and retained a sharp memory for the distant past. She had arrived in. Landmark after several decades of activity. Portrait of Marcel Proust 1892. At a time ...
