Wednesday 9 September 2009

BRISTOL HOTELS IN EUROPE

ALBANIA Tirana.
AUSTRIA Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Vienna.
BELGIUM Antwerp, Brussels, De Haan, Knokke Heist, La Roche en Ardenne.
BOSNIA Mostar, Tuzla.
CROATIA Opatija.
CYPRUS Kyrenia.
CZECH REPUBLIC Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Prague.
ESTONIA Pärnu.
FRANCE Aix-les-Bains, Avignon, Bordeaux, Caen, Calais, Carcasonne, Châlons-en-Champagne, Colmar, Le Puy, Le Touquet, Metz, Montbéliard, Mulhouse, Nice, Niederbronn-les-Bains, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Paris (Le Bristol), Paris (Bristol Le Marais République),Périgueux, Reims, Saint-Malo, Saint-Honoré-les-Bains, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Valencienne, Vichy.
GERMANY Bad Kissingen, Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Mainz, Munich, Potsdam, Sindelfingen.
GREECE Kos, Thessaloniki, Volos.
ITALY Abano Termo, Alassio, Battipaglia, Bellaria, Caorle, Capri, Cattolica, Cesenatico, Cervia, Chioggia, Dogana Nuova, Enna (Sicily), Finale Ligure, Fiuggi, Fiumalbo, Florence, Genoa, Ischia (Hotel Bristol Lacco Ameno), Ischia (Hotel Bristol Terme), Jesolo Lido, Laigueglia, Lavagna, Lignano, Milan, Minori, Misano Adriatico, Modica (Sicily), Naples, Pesaro, Pineto, Pompei, Rapallo, Riccione, Rimini, Rome, Savignano Sul Panaro, Pompei, Sesto, Sorrento, Stresa (Lago Maggiore), Tabiano Terme, Taormina (Sicily), Tirrenia, Viareggio, Vietri Sul Mare, Vasto, Verazze.
MACEDONIA (Former Yugoslav Republic of) Skopje.
NORWAY Bergen, Oslo.
POLAND Kielce, Tarnow, Warsaw.
ROMANIA Bucharest.
RUSSIA Samara, Yeysk (Eisk).
SERBIA Belgrade.
SLOVENIA Kosice.
SPAIN Almeria, Barcelona, Benavente, Benidorm Hotel Bristol Residencia, Benidorm Hotel Bristol Park, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) , Gibralter (GB), Valencia.
SWEDEN Arvika.
SWITZERLAND Adelboden, Berne, Davos, Geneva, Leukerbad, Montreux, Saas-Fee, Verbier, Villars-sur-Ollon, Zermatt, Zurich.
TURKEY Istanbul
UKRAINE Odessa, Yalta.
UNITED KINGDOM Newquay, Ickworth (home of Lord Bristol)

Scenes from High Times at the Hotel Bristol.
Top
: Le Bristol, Paris, is the setting in Chapter 19, 'Suha Arafat and the Hope Diamond'. Right:
Øivind Bergh’s Bristol orchestra at the Bristol in Oslo, famous for its music and the location for Chapter 18: 'Jazz on a Cold Winter's Night'. Far right: Naples, favourite haunt of the roguish Lord Bristol and the flighty Emma Hamilton, whose tales are told in Chapter 2, 'The Actress and the Earl-Bishop'

Tuesday 8 September 2009

NORTH AMERICA


CANADA Montréal, Toronto, Wawa.
USA Bristol CT, Dillingham (Alaska), Downers Grove, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Steamboat Springs, Virginia Washington, Wildwood Crest.





Hotel Bristol, New York: 'Upper end Times Square and in the middle of things' says this 1920s postcard. This once fashionable hotel is the location of 'The Lonely Doll and the Castor Oil King', Chapter 16 in High Times at the Hotel Bristol

Monday 7 September 2009

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA


ARGENTINA Buenos Aires
BRAZIL Belo Horizonte (2), Brazilia, Curitiba (7), Florianópolis (2), Foz de Iguaçu, Fortaleza, Guarapari , Ipatinga, Londrina, Maringa, Ponta Grossa, Porto Alegre, Sao José Dos Pinhais Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo (2) Timóteo, Vila Velha, Vitoria,
MEXICO Mexico City
PANAMA Panama City
In the early part of the 20th century, the Hotel Bristol in Plata del Mar, Argentina,
was the 'Queen of the Riviera' and the finest hotel in all South America.
A descriptoin of its heyday is in Chapter 10,
'Gambling with Maradona', in High Times at the Hotel Bristol

Sunday 6 September 2009

Saturday 5 September 2009

AFRICA


NIGERIA Lagos
TUNISIA Tunis

The Bristol Hotel in Lagos has had some dark moments in its past, including the lynching of a middle-aged woman deemed to be a 'witch' in its grounds in 1976. Most of the stories in High Times at the Hotel Bristol are a lot more cheerful than this.

Friday 4 September 2009

Thursday 3 September 2009

AUSTRALISIA

AUSTRALIA Melbourne
NEW ZEALAND
Wellingon, Waitamo


Have I left any Bristol hotels out?
Do you have any Hotel Bristol stories to tell?
Email me and let me know.