MagellanStraitsRSSFeed- Shaken Not Stirred Series – ‘The Great Gatsby Cocktail’ 22/05/2013To celebrate the recent release of the 2013 film ‘The Great Gatsby’, Erik Lorincz, The American Bar’s award winning barman, has created an elegant masterpiece in the form of ’The Great Gatsby” cocktail for The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel. He tells us that his inspiration was drawn from the film itself … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Travel Facts#2: In the footsteps of Napoleon! 20/05/2013For anyone wanting to know more about Emperor Napoleon, surely there can be no more symbolic a place to visit than Aix Island, in Poitou-Charentes, France. Napoleon finally left French soil forever from Aix Island en route to his banishment … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Suite Dreams Series – #11 – The Savoy’s Monet Suite 17/05/2013I guess the picture above lets the cat out of the bag so to speak but we recently took a sneaky peak around perhaps one of London’s most famous suites – the Monet Suite of The Savoy where Monsieur Claude … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Shaken Not Stirred Series – ‘The Great Gatsby Cocktail’ 22/05/2013
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Vintage Photo Series – Bob Dylan at The Savoy
Bob Dylan stayed at The Savoy London in 1965, while on tour in the UK and he lived at The Savoy while D.A. Pennebaker filmed the documentary “Don’t Look Back”. The Beatles, by the way, visited Dylan at The Savoy, … Continue reading
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Shaken not stirred: Magellan’s Cocktail List – Yoko Fresh
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth: Yoko Fresh Cocktail Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth came to world renown when John Lennon and Yoko Ono, having been refused entry into the US, conducted a “bed-in” in room 1742 between 26th May and 2nd June … Continue reading
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Tagged Bed-In, Canada, Cocktails, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Give Peace a Chance, History, Hotel, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Luxury, Montreal, Sake, Shaken not Stirred Series, the beatles, Travel
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Suite Dreams Series – #3 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono Suite, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth
There are few moments in rock and roll history that capture the imagination of a generation, even fewer where you can relive the experience yourself. At Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montreal, Canada you can do just that. The John Lennon and Yoko … Continue reading
