Word: courtyard
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...convince the only other two pension guests to join us in the courtyard. Sonja brings more coffee and the four of us chat around the table. The two are from Frankfurt, but they decided to stop by Bayreuth for one night—“It’s such an irresistible place.” Max has loved Wagner since the ’70s. He puts himself in the lottery for Bayreuth tickets every year. So far it has worked out three times...
...pleasant as this one are rare, we don’t know when the next one will be.” Although the next town on my itinerary beckons, and there is precious little time to waste, the 10 a.m. train suddenly appears a viable option. The lush courtyard is really too pleasant to leave...
...last representatives of China's prerevolutionary glamour sits in a ramshackle courtyard, somewhere in the maze of Beijing's fast-vanishing hutongs, or alleyways. For 60 years, master dressmaker Cao Senlin, tel: (86-10) 6526 4515, has been producing the slinky silk dresses known as cheongsam. And although you could get these at one of the modern tailors that have sprung up in the capital, you would be missing out on a historic opportunity if you were to bypass the 78-year-old's tiny, 150-square-foot atelier...
...nearly double the number of guests in previous years, prompting guests at Eliot House’s famed Fete to crash their neighboring House’s party. In order to pique interest in the occasion, Bahadu had 100 handles of liquor delivered and wheeled through the courtyard during the goat roast, which took place the week before the formal...
Though in his Mellon Foundation office, Rudenstine is only a few stories away from the courtyard where he met with Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in 1991 and hashed out the development of Harvard’s powerhouse Department of Afro-American Studies, Rudenstine avoids any discussion of his successor’s flap with the department...