Word: bay
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...prow-shaped silhouette of Cardiff's St David's Hotel and Spa, www.thestdavidshotel.com, dominates the once notorious dockside district of Tiger Bay. Local attractions have changed in the past 30 years. Prostitutes looking for sailors on shore leave once rubbed shoulders with the myriad nationalities who made up one of Britain's oldest multicultural communities. Regeneration means the Welsh parliament, the Millennium Centre (home of the Welsh National Opera), smart shops and restaurants now draw local professional couples and business visitors who would once have steered clear of the area and its nefarious reputation. (See pictures of London...
...forgiven a touch of déjà vu. The area's panoramic setting is a backdrop for the British sci-fi TV drama Dr Who (the cast of which stays at the hotel during filming). Each of the 132 Olga Polizzi - designed rooms enjoys views of the bay, and the spa's hydrotherapy pool maintains the illusion of merging with the glinting, steel-gray waters. A day in the city, which likes to call itself Europe's newest capital, can be rounded off in the hotel's Tides Bar and Grill, where locally sourced produce is served. Rates...
When Transformers 2 director Michael Bay snubbed Penn last summer, some on campus took up arms and started an open letter of protest on Facebook. Though in the end, Transformers 2 references neither school, and it is just assumed Shia LaBeouf attends some unnamed [stuck-up] northeastern [safety] school with an orange and black crest...
...woman wiping away her tears, with the words, "25 years ago, our loved ones were burned alive in front of our eyes," and in the next line, "Why has India, the world's largest democracy, denied us justice?" - are scheduled for the month of November in the San Francisco Bay Area's transit system. (See pictures of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi on the campaign trail...
...Road to War Our first flight took us to a deserted stretch of Black Sea coast at Anaklia Bay. Saakashvili, who is sometimes swept away by his own optimism, met several leading Spanish architects on the beach to discuss developing a resort nearly 4 miles (6 km) long that would lead right up to the border with the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The area may have natural potential - "The water's like boiled milk," an official told me approvingly - but Saakashvili seemed to be ignoring the obvious. If war breaks out again, the Russian army will rumble first through Anaklia...