Saturday, May 28, 2011

Bargain hotels 50 best sleeps under $150 The Hospitalist Field Turns 15 What Past Says About Future Pacific Grove inns recapture carefree summers past Elderly woman attacked breaks arm in North Lauderdale purse snatching News Wyndham expands Indian offering Walk this Way Spain's Camino de Santiago Expanding Asia Analyst Blog Travel Troubleshooter Elizabeth Edwards 'wrote estranged husband out of will'

What's happening to room rates? We've noticed the creep for a while, but now it feels like any hotel near a body of wateror mountain or winery, regardless of whether itÕs been renovated since the Reagan era, is... By BOB WACHTER, MD I just returned from the Society of Hospital Medicine's annual meeting in Dallas. Seeing more than 2,000 hospitalists in one place is remarkable, since I remember the days when we all fit into a mid-sized conference room at a Holiday Inn. I have clearly assumed the mantle of elder statesman [...] Long before Pacific Grove was an enclave of postcard-ready Victorian inns, elegant shops and dramatically misty beaches, it was a tent city for clean- living Methodists (it hung on until 1969 as California's last dry... again," said Dorothy Carley of Ridge, N.Y., four days after she was mugged on the street here.Carley and her friend Rose Bucalo, 83, of Holbrook, N.Y. were walking towards the Ramada Inn on ... Wyndham Hotel Group has confirmed it will open a further seven properties in India, with six falling under its Ramada brand. A single Days Inn property will also be added. Spain's Camino de Santiago pilgrimage is sure to become even more popular with the release of Emilio Estevez's The Way. Here are the highlights, plus suggestions for softies If you only have time to walk a section of the Camino, click here ## **Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (France)** This small, picturesque French town at the foot of the Pyrenees is the starting point of the classic route – the Camino Francés. Be warned: the first day's walk is almost all uphill. (From the UK take the train to Biarritz via Paris with Eurostar, or fly with easyJet from Gatwick or Ryanair from Stansted.) **Go pilgrim **The pilgrim information office (+33 5 5937 0509, chemins- compostelle.com, open mid-March to mid-November) will arrange dormitory accommodation for "bona fide pilgrims" – those proceeding on foot, by bicycle, or on horseback. **Go posh **Fine Basque cuisine is on offer at former coaching inn Les Pyrénées (+33 5 5937 0101, hotel-les-pyrenees.com, doubles from €105). ## **Roncesvalles** The 12th-century Augustinian monastery here has long been famous for its hospitality to pilgrims. The monks no longer wash the pilgrims' feet, but those attending each evening mass are given a traditional blessing intended to protect them from harm and ensure that ... Wyndham plans to expand in China and Thailand. Question: I booked a hotel room at the Hampton Inn Atlanta-Buckhead in Atlanta earlier this year. I paid a special online rate of $96 for one night. A few days later, I discovered that I had been charged for the room again. Reports say former US presidential candidate John Edwards written out of document by estranged wife who died last month Elizabeth Edwards, who died of cancer last month, has written her estranged husband, the former US presidential candidate John Edwards, out of her will, it was reported today. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that she had left all her possessions to her three surviving children. Her last will and testament names her eldest child, the lawyer Cate Edwards, as the executor of her estate. Elizabeth Edwards died on 7 December, six days after she signed the will, filed at the Orange County superior court in North Carolina. "All of my furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewellery, china, silverware and personal effects, and any automobiles owned by me at the time of my death, I give and bequeath to my children," the will states. She announced last January that she had separated from her husband, a former US senator, after 32 years of marriage. The two-times presidential candidate had an extramarital affair with a campaign videographer and fathered a daughter. During her husband's runs for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008, Elizabeth Edwards proved herself a powerful campaigner ...
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