Re: [Cz-L] Bristol

Very nice and important.
  Over 200 Hotels in Europe are named Bristol,
  The city of Bristol did not have a Bristol Hotel,until 2007.
   Paris has a Bristol on Place Vendome.
   Czernowitz has one at Mehlplatz corner Avenue des Karolinas,
Hardy

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From: "E. & G. Weissmann" <EGWeissmann_at_gmx.net>
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Subject: [Cz-L] Bristol

> My family and myself emigrated in 1959 to Bristol, England, from
> Romania. And when we started travelling through Europe, we wondered why so
> many hotels were named Bristol.
> Maybe because of the importance of the very old Bristol port, a center for
> a lot of trade and travel early as the 15th century,
> it held a major slave-trade until its abolishment, etc. Bristol has one of
> the oldest railway stations in the world, opened in 1840 (Victorian
> architecture) and was a good place to live in. It is a big and important
> university town. In "Treasure Island" there is a description of the old
> town around the port, (which still exists) with its narrow streets, and
> old, dark taverns.
> Gabriele

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