Grand, but welcoming and not too expensive for a light lunch. Today is the first time I have been in here and I am thinking what a great place to wait for a train, or to meet someone. I could get used to this!
Grand, but welcoming and not too expensive for a light lunch. Today is the first time I have been in here and I am thinking what a great place to wait for a train, or to meet someone. I could get used to this!
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Freda
29/11/2019 06:20:31 pm
I think it had a major refurb a few years ago Viv,
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MaryB
29/11/2019 04:43:17 pm
Delightful! I had no idea such places still existed as most stations I know are glass and plastic modern impersonal .,.. your photos look like something from the grand age of steam railway travel, you know , Orient Express ,Miss Marple and such. What a lovely place to have lunch and absorb the atmosphere.
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Freda
29/11/2019 06:24:58 pm
Frank Sinatra, Winston Churchill and Gene kelly stayed there - it does have a rather glamorous feel!
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Lotta
29/11/2019 11:53:29 pm
What was he playing, Freda? And the does the railway track under that fabulously grand gingerbread house have a little train that goes round? And the most important question: had anyone had a nibble of the gingerbread? :-)
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Freda
30/11/2019 10:58:04 am
Can't remember, yes and not that I noticed!
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Sheena
30/11/2019 12:03:35 am
It looks splendid and I must confess that I have never been in the hotel. I have been on a tour of Central Station and really enjoyed that. Glad you discovered it, Freda, and I will make the effort to go. Hmm, I think it looks like an afternoon tea sort of place.
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Freda
30/11/2019 10:59:28 am
I plan to do that tour Sheena and yes, afternoon tea was fuly booked yesterday.
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Mary
30/11/2019 04:18:45 am
Room (restaurant) with a view. Looks like a good meeting place. :)
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Freda
30/11/2019 11:00:08 am
Sounds like a plan Mary!
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cathy
30/11/2019 05:35:38 am
when I was visiting Corvallis, Oregon several years ago, they had upright pianos scattered all across the city....out on sidewalks where anyone was welcome to sit & play...or kids could bang away on them. I also was privileged to listen to what I considered to be concert-equivalent piece played by a man who then picked up his briefcase & went on his way. it was such an experience. love the gingerbread version. nothing like the 1 I tried to make. :)
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Freda
30/11/2019 11:05:34 am
Isn't it a brilliant idea? See under Street Pianos and PlayMe I'm Yours for more on this world wied movement...
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Grace
30/11/2019 05:50:17 am
I have yet to set foot inside the Grand Central. Another one to visit on my next trip to the Dear Green Place.
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Freda
30/11/2019 11:06:17 am
A good place to meet Grace?
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Grace
30/11/2019 11:16:06 am
Just what I was thinking!
cath
30/11/2019 07:40:22 am
Is the Grand Central Hotel a place where everyone spontaneously lowers their voice a little? Does it have background music for lunch or just the tinkle and murmur caused by the visitors?
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Freda
30/11/2019 11:07:13 am
Clearly I shall have to go back!
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