Word: busful
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Hostellerie le Phébus (33-4-90-05-78-83; lephebus.com has its own Michelin one-star restaurant. The chef, Xavier Mathieu, comes out at the end of the meal and bows. Very French and very rich food, but delicious...
Activities you might be engaging in include foraging for edible food and getting berated by customer service representatives, but never after five p.m., when everything—including coffee shops and pharmacies—closes. Don’t expect urban respite from Oxford. London is a two hour bus ride away...
...returned to Ghana after a failed attempt to get to Europe. Jerry Senanu Nyonator is 28, and like millions of struggling Africans, dreams of working in Europe or the U.S. Three years ago, following the well-worn path of thousands before him, he set out for Europe, catching a bus to Lagos and then to Chad, where he eventually ran out of money and found his papers weren't good enough. "Maybe when I get a passport I will try it again," he says. "That is my ambition. I know when I get there my life will be meaningful...
...From one of my four windows, Maserati champagne cocktail in hand, I spotted an easyJet plane, its 34 rows brimming with my people: coach folk. But today I had traded my peanuts for canapés. All 48 seats on this 757 built for 220 passengers were front-of-the-bus as Flight 3 flew from London's close-in Stansted to New York City's J.F.K. on EOS Airlines. A niche carrier launched October 2005, it is the first of three start-ups that offer premium- and business-class-only flights between the two cities...
...spent a lot of time looking at the old masters in the Prado. His hours with Velázquez, Zurbarán and Goya got him thinking. Was it still possible, in the 20th century, to make representational art with anything like the same power? He happened to be traveling by bus at the time and at each terminal his attention was grabbed by those backlit light boxes that display ads. A light came on in his head...