This week, my dear and patient fellow traveller, please follow us to:
The Great Quiz
For all of you who like to test their knowledge: there is a 24
questions FAMOUS HOTELS quiz waiting for you: “Do you know the hotel’s
name and its city?” Try it and win our latest book. Go to the quiz
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The Great Savoy Hotel Sale
Always wanted to own a table from Churchill’s favourite meeting room?
Looking for a piece of furniture HRH Queen Elizabeth once sat on? There
is a fair chance that you find what you are looking for at The Savoy in
London. More
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The Great Plaza New York celebrates 100th: More
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The Great Misunderstanding:
We have come across an interesting experience. How could a set of
photographs showing Montgomery and Winston Churchill create so much
trouble for a Muslim guest? More
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The Mena House in Cairo
Since many years our little book THE MENA HOUSE TREASURY is a best-seller.
Now we make this book available as an e-book.
You can order it on-line, you will receive it on-line and you can read
it on your computer or print it out. Like THE STRAND TREASURY this book
is a special on-line edition.
I have spent a long time researching it and I have not only
concentrated on the hotel itself. This book throws light on all our
good reasons to visit Egypt:
: Where does the name “Mena” come from?
: The Secret of the Pyramids
: The Sphinx
: A time line from ancient to modern Egypt
: How to bluff your way through Hieroglyphics
: Thackeray: Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, an excerpt of a manuscript, compiled and written in 1845 by William Makepeace Thackeray
: The Suez Canal Story
: The Aida Story: Aida is one of the most important works of European opera. Two famous misconceptions: Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi composed Aida 1. for the opening of the Suez Canal. and 2. for the inauguration of the Royal (Khedival) Opera House.
: Thomas Cook discovers Egypt
and of course:
: The Making of the Mena House with the stories of Arthur Conan Coyle,
: the legendary Shepherd’s Hotel,
: the History of Golf at the Mena House
: King Farouk and Montgomery
: MS Oberoi meets President Nasser: two men - one vision.
: A collection of anecdotes of the Mena House including its most famous guests.
More
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