Tag: Stately homes

• Looking for Immortality (but will Settle for a Cold Beer) at the Angkor Temples

  During our three days of temple hopping in Siem Reap, we saw seven or eight temples in the Angkor complex and barely scratched the surface. No wonder I got templed out.

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  July 22, 2015

  travel

  Angkor, Beer, buddha, Cambodia, history, Siem Reap, Stately homes, Temples

• Time Travel to Another Naples: The Bourbon Tunnel

  In Italy, December 8 is a national holiday. Something about a feast and some reception and being really, really clean, like immaculate. I don’t know all the details, but there was a parade with red banners and gold fringe. And a lot of offices and government buildings were closed, and everybody was out and about,…

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  January 29, 2015

  travel, trip report

  Holidays, Italy, museums, Naples, playing tourist, royal demands, Stately homes, tour guides, tours, Tunnels

• Stalking Stateliness: A Visit to The Royal Palace in Naples

  Hey, you know what I love? I mother f*#$k-ing stately home. I cannot get enough of some grandiose living spaces, y’all. Something with tons of tapestries and baroque stone carved curlicues and some of those stucco putti kids and anterooms to rooms that serve no discernible purpose. Show me a medal room. Show me a…

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  January 21, 2015

  travel, trip report

  kim and kanye, Murat the baller, museums, Naples, playing tourist, Royal Palace, Stately homes, tourism