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Sure, the music and architecture in Vienna are spectacular, but nothing beats whiling away your afternoon in a Viennese Caf? Konditorei, or "pastry shop." Famously, there are hundreds of these caf?s in the city. But with so many to choose from, where are your calories best consumed? All serve coffee, a true Viennese passion inherited from the Turks, who left the beans behind after their invasion in 1683. Specialist pastry shops gained popularity among the Habsburg aristocracy at the end of the 18th century. So forget about your waistline and check out four of the best Caf? Konditoreien the Austrian...
...DEMEL Dating from 1786, Demel is one of Vienna's oldest pastry shops and offers sumptuous rococo-style surroundings. Tuck into the caf?'s popular Anna torte, a deep-layered concoction of orange liqueur-flavored chocolate cream and sponge, covered with chocolate nougat scrolls. You can watch pastry chefs at work through a glass wall. tel: (43-1) 5351 7170; www.demel.at...
...Easter next year, will explore the reading experience with seven rooms of styles and genres, such as topsy-turvy world, wilderness world and a world of quests and challenges. There's also a story lab, in which the public can access digitized collection material, a sunny reading nook, a caf? and a bookstore. Flossie Hunt, 11, of Rothbury, Northumberland, predicts that "people will want to spend the whole day here." Memo to Hogwarts admin: get those school trips organized pronto...
...complex, which opened in April next to the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Shinagawa, one of Tokyo's prime business districts. Described as "entertainment for adults" by spokesman Naoto Takahashi, the theme park boasts facilities designed to lure grownups from their usual happy-hour haunts, featuring a slick restaurant and caf?-bar, concert hall (U.S. surfer turned songwriter Jack Johnson recently performed) and, of course, an aquarium?one of the largest in the Japanese capital. Unlike traditional aquariums, this one doesn't attempt to impart knowledge: there are no signboards listing the scientific names of the 20,000 fish, dolphins...
...there's no English equivalent, says Macalister. But some words have been picked up because they're more economical than English. Ngati, which denotes a tribal group, "gives you a succinct way of expressing a community of interests," Macalister says. "So you get ngati nimby, or ngati cappuccino, for caf? society." Other words have a richer spread of meanings: "Aroha, for example, covers more than love. It also has the sense of affection, warmth and goodwill" - so people will talk of a crowd on a cold night being warmed by aroha. But word choice is also a matter of politics...