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...plus a limo driver on hand all weekend. It costs a sweet $25,000 clams. Or you can swap the parade, and its trappings, for a massage and a traditional New Orleans king cake served at turndown, for a comparatively modest $699 per night. Available Feb 22-24.921 Canal St, New Orleans...
...Carnival spirit, the Palazzo Barbarigo is a great place for a steamy rendezvous. Located near the Rialto Bridge, the 16th century palace has been transformed into a moody, Art Deco?style hotel. Its slinky cocktail bar with dark velvet upholstery, smoky mirrors and a view of the Grand Canal is proving a fashionable hangout for locals and visitors alike. (See pictures of Venice's floods...
Venice's historic treasures have one drawback: they can dupe visitors into believing the city is stuck in a time warp. For a taste of the 21st century, check out the new restaurants on the Grand Canal's south bank. Ancora is the latest to cause a stir with its all-white décor, nightly jazz sessions and Mediterranean-with-a-twist menu - try the raw tuna and avocado salad with kabayaki sauce, or the bass with olive oil and white beans...
...Venice's most significant break with tradition is the new bridge across the Grand Canal. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, Constitution Bridge - which connects Santa Lucia rail station and the Piazzale Roma bus terminal - caused controversy at first. Now, however, its swooping glass-and-steel curve has become the signature of a city that knows how to have...
...piracy off Somalia's coast that has lately had the country back in the headlines. Piracy is driven by poverty, and the frustration at seeing the world's fishing fleets plunder your waters, while the global economy, in the form of heavily laden container ships transiting the Suez Canal, quite literally pass you by. Killing pirates, as an international armada now gathering off Somalia aims to do, doesn't address that. It might briefly deter them, but it doesn't address the root cause of the problem...