Word: chalet
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...events) is the practiced charmer that grabs you instantly. This is in part, no doubt, because Nagano is a city with 360,000 people--more populous than Iceland--while Hakuba is a village of just 9,400 residents, a picture-perfect poster site for the Japan Alps with its Chalet Heidihof pensions and white birch forests encircled by snowcaps reflected in the Princess River...
...Echoland area where the Shop Jah Jah shares space with the Natchez "American pub," where the Magic Mushroom surf shop and Tijuana Cafe are next door and the Groovy Art Space hair salon is across the street. Thus the ultimate Japanese dream: to live in a Swiss chalet in Montana (with a 7-Eleven around the corner...
...general, less pricey hotels raise their rates less. According to the Unofficial Guide, the Newbury Guest House in Boston raises its rates by $20 while the Susse Chalet Motor Lodge, located near Cambridge's Alewife T-stop, increases its rates by only $15 per night...
...Aleksa Palladino) is a scared and angry young woman of 16. Orphaned sisters escaping foster care, they have hit the road in their mom's old car, subsisting on junk food but sheltering luxuriously, first in the model homes of newly built subdivisions, then in a vacant ski chalet...
Everybody needs a break occasionally, even the infallible. So when POPE JOHN PAUL II wants to unwind, he helicopters to Italy's Dolomite mountains and kicks back in a chalet near Lorenzago di Cadore. His shaky health has curtailed his once half-day walks, but he still manages to get around. Since a Pontiff's work is never done, he preached to the local flock last week, enjoining them to be inspired by the mountains "to establish a more respectful rapport with nature." In a line that the local tourist bureau may want to use, John Paul described the area...