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Feathered Friend. If you like birds, especially the patriotic kind, the Tidewater Inn Bed & Breakfast on Connecticut's coast, just 2 hours from New York, has a President's Day weekend with an Eagle Viewing Boat Trip. The day starts with an early morning Valentine's Day breakfast, then off to the 54-foot boat to see the New England's largest winter population of bald Eagles. Warm up upon your return with afternoon tea, and get a $25 gift certificate to the nearby Audubon shop. Rates start at $315, available through March 7. 949 Boston Post Rd, Madison...
...Desire" package with a bottle of Veuve and Godiva chocolates ready to welcome you. Continue imbibing with chocolate martinis in the Lobby Bar. The concierge can make dinner reservations and you'll return to a rose petal turndown. Next day have a breakfast buffet and return to bed - no check out until 3pm. Rooms start at $379 W. 63rd St. at Broadway...
...motto is "Grab, Eat, Repeat." John Bil, straight from Canada's Prince Edward Island, where the original Flex Mussels is located, mans the bar shucking 18 oysters in 90 seconds to give you a sampling of the shellfish from around the world, including rare wild oysters from a bed recently discovered off the coast of Maine. On Valentine's Day the restaurant is offering a 4-course menu with an oyster theme for $75, or $115 with wine pairings 174 E 82nd...
...chocolate-covered suite created by Top Design's Jonathan Adler at New York's Bryant Park Hotel. The room are completely kitted out in chocolate - and I mean completely - from a chocolate mosaic wall, chocolate covered table, with chocolate candles and flowers, to a chocolate headboard on the bed. There's even an abstract painting done in dark, milk and white chocolate. No golden ticket in your box? Don't despair, there are 100 other winners out there who will get chocolate for year, delivered to their doorstep each month - along with a piece of Adler's tabletop collection...
Writers aren't famous for getting up early, but Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of the debut story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Norton; 247 pages), keeps farmers' hours. Literally. "I crawl out of bed about 6 and have some tea," he says, "and immediately I meet my managers"--that is, the managers of his small farm in rural Pakistan. "Then they go off and do their thing, and I write until 2." The rest of the afternoon he spends either out on the land or going through the finances. "I tend to soft-play the accounts and spend more time...