Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakfast places begin to take hold...
...years, thrifty and adventurous tourists have known how to find good accommodations in Britain without uniformed doormen, glittering ballrooms, 24-hour room service and computerized reservations. The secret: the British institution of bed-and-breakfast establishments. These are private homes, ranging from stately Victorian town houses to rustic country cottages, whose owners turn over their spare bedrooms to paying guests and include the next day's morning meal in the price. Mostly small and as individual as their owners, the B & Bs generally provide a cozy version of home away from home...
...trend seems to have surfaced first-and most elegantly-in San Francisco, where in 1976 Robert and Marily Kavanaugh opened an establishment in a tiny Victorian mews house off Union Street, calling itself simply the Bed and Breakfast Inn. Today there are 15 B & Bs around San Francisco, and their rooms (generally $40 to $80 per night) are tougher to book than space at the city's large luxury hotels, especially on weekends...
...drink in a bistro in Kinshasa, Zaïre, is $6.05. The most expensive city in the world at present is Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, where U.S. companies, including TRW, Intel and Playtex, operate manufacturing plants to take advantage of low wage rates. A hotel room with breakfast there is a stunning $155.36. The world's least expensive city this year, as last, is Peking. A capitalist looking for a share of the China trade can dine on Peking duck for $17.77 and rest his head for a mere $29.88 a night...
...Tanned and rosy, the newlyweds-he showing more leg than she in his Gordon Highlanders kilt-ventured down to a bridge by the River Dee on Queen Elizabeth II's Scottish estate. There they tarried for a session with about 50 photographers and reporters. Asked whether she made breakfasts fit for a King, Diana replied: "I don't eat breakfast." When presented with a bouquet of white heather, roses and carnations, she smiled graciously, then cocked her head and inquired: "All on your expense accounts?" The Balmoral bout yielded thousands of pictures, but that was not the kind...