Urgently need advice on which hotel to stay in the Midtown area of New York ie Times Square, Broadway. Don't want budget/hostel or 4/5 star. Any suitable hotels I've found seem to have really bad...
Iam stopping at the 4* Tej Marhaba hotel in Sousse Will i need to dress for dinner or will shorts and t-shirt do. And whats the rule of thumb for tipping.Whats the best type of currency to use i/e...
Could someone please help me. i have just obtained a piece of porcelain that has a hallmark on the base which consists of upright cross swords a date of 1859 which is split by the swords and several...
Hi, on abc1 there's a great prog, called the above, I know that the lovely protective dad died in real life. Does anyone know how he died, and how it was portrayed in the actual series, which seems to...
We want to buy a bottle of red wine for someone as a thank you gift but don't really know what is good to buy. Any suggestions, we will go up to about ?10 - ?15? Thanks.
If he hadn't married badly and then had to look after his crazy wife and then find a governess for his ward and then fallen in love with said governess and then gone half mad and crippled and blind...
This question has probablly already been asked by somebody, I tried to find one like it, but to no avail. Anyway I hope its OK to ask where everybody is from?? Certainly not looking for detail, but I...
There is a gravestone at St. Mary's Church in Whitby which is said to mark Dracula's grave. There is no writing on it, just a carved skull and crossbones. Who put it there? When? Does anyone know who,...
I'm never very sure what the correct punctuation should be when I write a sentence in which the first clause asks a question and is then followed by a qualifying clause. I think that I'd only use a...
We are growing this in our garden. We've eaten it raw in salads (delicious), and I'm told the Italians like it braised with garlic and oil, or boiled in salted water and served as a hot or warm side...
All Birmingham addresses state West Midlands as their county, but Warwickshire play at Edgbaston which is in Birmingham, therefore which county is Birmingham in?
i get utterly convinced by every jack the ripper suspect- due to cinema portryal i firmly believed it was sir william gull- and now i find that it is claimed he suffered a stroke during that time...