Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Praga Cantat 29th October - 1st November 2010
24th PRAGA CANTAT 2010
International Choir Competition and Festival
Trip Organisers: Choir Contact International
Friday 29th October
08:15 Check-In Dublin Airport for Aer Lingus flight EI 644 to Prague
10:45 Depart Dublin Airport
14:10 Arrive Prague Airport
On arrival after collection of luggage please proceed to arrivals area where you will be met by your English speaking guide for coach transfer to your hotel.
Your hotel address in Prague: Dorint Hotel Don Giovanni
16:30 Coach transfer with your guide to the residence of the Irish ambassador, Na Vadorce 19, in Prague 6
18:00 Choir director and president depart residence with guide for the Town Hall by private car transfer
18:30 Reception for all choir directors and vice presidents (2 per choir) at the Town Hall, Old Town Square. Return to hotel by metro
19:30 Coach transfer from Irish Ambassador’s residence back to your hotel.
20.00 Group dinner at your hotel
Saturday 30th October
Group breakfast at your hotel.
Transfer from your hotel with your guide to the National House. Please ensure that you have your choir uniforms with you
10.00 Official opening concert at the National House starring the famous Czeck choir “Bambini di Praga” (duration approx. 1 hour)
After the concert free time for lunch.
14.35 “Check-in” at the National House. Opportunity for a short rehearsal
15.20 Festival concert at the National House
Directly after your performance one member of the jury will discuss the evaluation of your performance with your choir director.
16.00 Transfer from the National House with your guide to your hotel
17.00 Group Dinner at your hotel
18.20 Coach transfer from your hotel to the State Opera for evening performance
19:00 The opera performance “La Boheme” begins at the State Opera
21:30 Transfer from The State Opera back to your hotel. Driver will advise pick up point
Sunday 30th October 2010
Group breakfast at your hotel
09:15 Coach transfer from your hotel with your guide to church for mass
09:45 – 10:15 Choir Rehearsal with organ at the church
10.30 Church service begins at the St Cross Church in Prague 1
Free time for optional lunch after mass.
Your Guide will advise meeting point and time after Lunch for city tour of Prague including a visit to Prague Castle.
Return back to your hotel in the late afternoon.
18:00 Group dinner at your hotel
19:15 Coach transfer from your hotel to the National House
20:00 Closing Ceremony and Prize Giving awards in all choir categories. Following, the compulsory music songs are sung together. Followed by music and dance at the National House.
23.30 Coach transfer back to your hotel
Monday 1st November 2010
Breakfast at your hotel in the morning and check out
(Your luggage can be deposited at the hotel until your transfer to the airport in the late afternoon
12:45 Coach Transfer to Prague Airport
13:45 Check-In Prague Airport for Aer Lingus flight EI 645 to Dublin
15:45 Depart Prague Airport
17:25 Arrival Dublin Airport
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Irish College Paris
Paris is not renowned for good value hotels – you can pay through the nose for a hotel you’d turn that same nose up at elsewhere. This makes the Irish College Paris, or the Centre Culturel Irlandais to give it its proper title, well worth checking out.
Located in the historic Latin quarter of Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, it is a short walk from the Pantheon and the Sorbonne and easily accessible by public transport, connecting directly with Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports, as well as the Gare du Nord.
The college offers short-term accommodation to both Irish residents and visitors with an interest in Irish culture, subject to a minimum stay of two nights.
This month, rates are €74 a night for a single and €103 for a double. Prices come down the longer you stay, meaning you can get a double room for a week for €502.
And you get much more than just a room. There’s a series of cultural events ongoing at the centre. Time it right this autumn and you’ll be there just in time for an audience with novelist John Connolly – admission free, reservation recommended.
Located in the historic Latin quarter of Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, it is a short walk from the Pantheon and the Sorbonne and easily accessible by public transport, connecting directly with Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports, as well as the Gare du Nord.
The college offers short-term accommodation to both Irish residents and visitors with an interest in Irish culture, subject to a minimum stay of two nights.
This month, rates are €74 a night for a single and €103 for a double. Prices come down the longer you stay, meaning you can get a double room for a week for €502.
And you get much more than just a room. There’s a series of cultural events ongoing at the centre. Time it right this autumn and you’ll be there just in time for an audience with novelist John Connolly – admission free, reservation recommended.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Musee de Beaux Arts Rennes
Musee de Beaux Arts Rennes
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, like many French museums, was a creation of the Revolution. Founded in 1794 with works confiscated from the city's religious and civil buildings, the museum in fact owes most of the wealth of its collection to the fabulous 'cabinet of curiosities' collected by Christophe-Paul de Robien (1698-1756), President of the Parliament of Brittany. After two years of work, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes has reopened February 9, 2010 its permanent collection rooms, restyled, extended and enriched with new masterpieces: 320 paintings of which about fifty have never been shown.
Due to its lack of a suitable building, the museum has never been able to exhibit the whole range of its diverse collection. It has a fine reputation as an art gallery, due to the signal quality of its pictures, though this is only a partial image of its potential. It contains strangely few sculptures - not the result of the destructions of the last war, which mainly affected the 19th century works, but rather that the two main sources of the collection, Robien and works lent by the French state, had very few to offer.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, like many French museums, was a creation of the Revolution. Founded in 1794 with works confiscated from the city's religious and civil buildings, the museum in fact owes most of the wealth of its collection to the fabulous 'cabinet of curiosities' collected by Christophe-Paul de Robien (1698-1756), President of the Parliament of Brittany. After two years of work, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes has reopened February 9, 2010 its permanent collection rooms, restyled, extended and enriched with new masterpieces: 320 paintings of which about fifty have never been shown.
Due to its lack of a suitable building, the museum has never been able to exhibit the whole range of its diverse collection. It has a fine reputation as an art gallery, due to the signal quality of its pictures, though this is only a partial image of its potential. It contains strangely few sculptures - not the result of the destructions of the last war, which mainly affected the 19th century works, but rather that the two main sources of the collection, Robien and works lent by the French state, had very few to offer.
La sélection Michelin
Les 60 000 étudiants, qui animent la vie de la capitale régionale de la Bretagne, lui donnent une image dynamique, largement tournée vers la culture. a de plus conservé ses rues médiévales, étroites et sinueuses, miraculeusement préservées du ... lire la suite. Les 60 000 étudiants, qui animent la vie de la capitale régionale de la Bretagne, lui donnent une image dynamique, largement tournée vers la culture. a de plus conservé ses rues médiévales, étroites et sinueuses, miraculeusement préservées du gigantesque incendie de 1720. Ses deux places royales, ses édifices publics et ses nombreux hôtels particuliers lui procurent une élégante solennité.
SITES TOURISTIQUES
• Hôtel de ville de Rennes
• Basilique St-Sauveur
• Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
• Place du Champ-Jacquet
• Palais du parlement de Bretagne
RESTAURANTS
• Le Quatre B
4 place de Bretagne – Fermé les lun. et sam. midi et le dim. tte la journée.
Tél./Fax : 02 99 30 42 01
Formule midi 12 Û et 16 Û – Menus 21 à 27 Û – 55 couverts – Groupes < 35 – GB – I / GB /o
Michelin 2009 – Le Bottin Gourmand 2010 – Champérard 2010
Décor contemporain, avec une ambiance bistrot le midi, dans un cadre épuré le soir. Esprit lounge :
luminaires murano tamisés, rideaux de perles…Cuisine traditionnelle et évolutive dans le tempo actuel.
"Que serait ce lieu sans l'accueil chaleureux et personnalisé d'Angéline Anfray."
(BIB gourmand) (Pudlo 2009).
• Léon le Cochon
1 rue Maréchal Joffre – Ouvert 7j/7 (sauf le dim. en juil.-août)
Tél. : 02 99 79 37 54 / Fax : 02 99 79 07 35
11,47 à 37 Û – 90 couverts – Groupes < 90 – GB – D – E / GB / CV
Gault et Millau 2010 – Champérard 2010
Cuisine de bistrot. Authentiques plats du terroir réalisés avec des produits labellisés ou en
arrivage direct. (Guide du Routard 2010, Lieux de Toujours 2010). Entrez chez Léon au cours d'un
repas entre copains...comme cochons !
• Le Guehennec
33 rue Nantaise – Fermé le sam. midi, le lun. soir et le dim.
Tél. : 02 99 65 51 30 / Fax : 02 99 65 68 26
18 à 48 Û – 24 couverts – Groupes < 12 – o
Gault et Millau 2010 – Le Bottin Gourmand 2010 – Champérard 2010
Chef de cuisine : Gérard Le Guehennec. Cuisine d'instinct et de tradition avec le meilleur du marché ;
décor sobre et contemporain. (Guide du Routard)
• Les Carmes
2 rue des Carmes – Fermé le dim.soir et le lun.
Tél./Fax : 02 99 79 28 95
les.carmes@orange.fr
13 à 50 Û – 34 couverts – GB / o
Champérard 2010
Nouveau cadre et cuisine à découvrir. Du pain à la glace, tout est fait maison. Quartier Vasselot-
Zola. (Guide du routard 2008 - Petits restos des grands chefs 2008)
• Le Petit Sabayon
16 rue des Trente – Fermé le dim. et le lundi.
02 99 35 02 04 – lepetitsabayon@free.fr
15 à 45 Û – 22 couverts - Groupes < 25 – GB – E
Gault et Millau 2010 – Le Bottin Gourmand 2010 – Champérard 2010
Resto-bistrot à dénicher. Cuisine de chef à base de produits frais mêlant tradition et inspiration
du moment. Accueil convivial et service attentionné.
• Mercure Centre Gare
SITES TOURISTIQUES
• Hôtel de ville de Rennes
• Basilique St-Sauveur
• Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville
• Place du Champ-Jacquet
• Palais du parlement de Bretagne
RESTAURANTS
• Le Quatre B
4 place de Bretagne – Fermé les lun. et sam. midi et le dim. tte la journée.
Tél./Fax : 02 99 30 42 01
Formule midi 12 Û et 16 Û – Menus 21 à 27 Û – 55 couverts – Groupes < 35 – GB – I / GB /o
Michelin 2009 – Le Bottin Gourmand 2010 – Champérard 2010
Décor contemporain, avec une ambiance bistrot le midi, dans un cadre épuré le soir. Esprit lounge :
luminaires murano tamisés, rideaux de perles…Cuisine traditionnelle et évolutive dans le tempo actuel.
"Que serait ce lieu sans l'accueil chaleureux et personnalisé d'Angéline Anfray."
(BIB gourmand) (Pudlo 2009).
• Léon le Cochon
1 rue Maréchal Joffre – Ouvert 7j/7 (sauf le dim. en juil.-août)
Tél. : 02 99 79 37 54 / Fax : 02 99 79 07 35
11,47 à 37 Û – 90 couverts – Groupes < 90 – GB – D – E / GB / CV
Gault et Millau 2010 – Champérard 2010
Cuisine de bistrot. Authentiques plats du terroir réalisés avec des produits labellisés ou en
arrivage direct. (Guide du Routard 2010, Lieux de Toujours 2010). Entrez chez Léon au cours d'un
repas entre copains...comme cochons !
• Le Guehennec
33 rue Nantaise – Fermé le sam. midi, le lun. soir et le dim.
Tél. : 02 99 65 51 30 / Fax : 02 99 65 68 26
18 à 48 Û – 24 couverts – Groupes < 12 – o
Gault et Millau 2010 – Le Bottin Gourmand 2010 – Champérard 2010
Chef de cuisine : Gérard Le Guehennec. Cuisine d'instinct et de tradition avec le meilleur du marché ;
décor sobre et contemporain. (Guide du Routard)
• Les Carmes
2 rue des Carmes – Fermé le dim.soir et le lun.
Tél./Fax : 02 99 79 28 95
les.carmes@orange.fr
13 à 50 Û – 34 couverts – GB / o
Champérard 2010
Nouveau cadre et cuisine à découvrir. Du pain à la glace, tout est fait maison. Quartier Vasselot-
Zola. (Guide du routard 2008 - Petits restos des grands chefs 2008)
• Le Petit Sabayon
16 rue des Trente – Fermé le dim. et le lundi.
02 99 35 02 04 – lepetitsabayon@free.fr
15 à 45 Û – 22 couverts - Groupes < 25 – GB – E
Gault et Millau 2010 – Le Bottin Gourmand 2010 – Champérard 2010
Resto-bistrot à dénicher. Cuisine de chef à base de produits frais mêlant tradition et inspiration
du moment. Accueil convivial et service attentionné.
• Mercure Centre Gare
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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