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7 Wonders, 3 Writers
20 January 2011
From More Intelligent Life, a publication by The Economist, three articles by three writers, all called 7 Wonders. What a lovely idea — get three well-travelled writers to pick their favourite spots.
Colin Thubron, Henning Mankell and Alex Ross were all asked to pick a city, a work of art, a journey, a hotel, a beach, a building and a view.
Marvellous. » more
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A New York City Weekend for $100
29 December 2010By SETH KUGEL | December 28, 2010
HOW much spending money should you set aside for a weekend in New York City that includes taking in some theater, museums and experimental film, dining out at restaurants for every meal and having a few beers, too? Does $100 sound reasonable? Perhaps not, but it should. Manhattan may seem like the most expensive place in America — you could make $10,000 disappear in a weekend if you really wanted — but it can also be cheap. Even with just $100, you can paint the town red without going into the red. » more
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Being There: New York
21 January 2011Tom Shone | Winter 2010 There is nothing quite like the heat of your first summer in New York. The asphalt feels spongy underfoot. The avenues shimmer in the haze. The Union Jack handkerchief your mother insisted you pack—whoever heard of a hankie in New York!—proves no match for the sweat pooling in your eyebrows and running between your shoulder-blades. As you hop from one cloud of air conditioning to the next, peeling the shirt from your back, you feel like an animal that has chosen the wrong element in which to exist: a frog in flight, a bird underwater, an Englishman abroad. Your Union Jack hankie will double nicely as a flag of surrender. Now it’s one of the things I most love about life in New York—along with the arctic winters, during which the city seems almost to travel back in time, the cars and roads disappearing beneath an even white blanket until there is little in your line of sight that would look out of place in a daguerreotype. You get your money’s worth with the seasons in New York. So unlike London with its single grey mono-season, interrupted by a few days of sun and a few more days of rain. » more
