Word: main
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spain, and you'll see road signs pointing to restaurants and hotels. But if you arrive in Sant Celoni, just north of Barcelona, seeking one of the finest restaurants in the country, you'll be out of luck. The place is tucked away on a narrow street off the main square; most of the townsfolk are familiar with it but may be scant help if your Spanish is so lame that you confuse the words nombre and número...
...Hang out at a coffee shop by the Bab Al-Yaman, the city's main gate to the south, and watch men from the tribal areas wearing curved daggers and sarongs stroll past while animated Somalians in red, orange, yellow and green robes barter with customers on Ta'Izz Road, south of the gate. If you really want to be in the thick of all this life, skip the Sheraton and bed down in a hotel tower house, or fonduk. They offer basic facilities, but have incredible atmosphere and great roof-terrace views. Check out Arabia Felix...
...palatable than most: 2005 would be the Year of Beer in Brussels and Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, to celebrate the country's 175th anniversary. So if you want to salute the tipple before year's end, Delirium Caf?, on Impasse de la Fid?lit?, just off the main restaurant drag of Rue Gr?try, is a great place to start. Serving over 900 of the nation's finest brews, revered for their strength and diversity, and with a menu as thick as a phone book boasting these as well as more than 1,100 beers from 60 other countries...
...well aware, “pedestrian†is not Damrosch’s style. His narrative is an exhilarating carriage ride through the ancien regime, and it remains lively through 500 pages of well-turned prose. And a readable biography was Damrosch’s goal. His main concern, he says, was to make Rousseau available to people who know nothing about him, rather than to do original research. “Reviewers and publishers make something of a fetish of ‘hitherto unpublished material,’†he says. For Rousseau and many...
...order to get things done. We don’t have the luxury [of fighting] in a world that is moving at Internet speed,†he said to a crowded room of Harvard Democrats. The governor, oft-mentioned as a potential presidential candidate for 2008, outlined three main issues he believes the Democrats—and the next president—must take on. Personal security, economic security, and political efficacy and accountability are the most important problems facing America, Warner said. All three must become Democratic issues, he added. “We as a party have...