Word: houseboat
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...trip and a 20-minute hike to the site, where the bride changed from shorts and a T shirt into her wedding dress. The ship's captain performed the ceremony, after which the couple released butterflies, a local Native American tradition. The following day, Tera and Eric rented a houseboat with nine friends for a group honeymoon. "Not only did we first meet on Lake Powell, we own a boat and love the outdoors," says Tera. "Our destination wedding fit us perfectly...
...personal ad. "Studio for rent on a barge parked near the Eiffel Tower. Perfect for an expatriate businessman." I wasn't a businessman and the rent was too high, but I had come to Paris to fall in love, and love requires sacrifice. Besides, living on a houseboat beat the hell out of an artist's garret when it came to writing postcards home. Traveling is like dating to me, so when I handed two-months deposit in cash to my new boat lord, it felt like I was making a bold commitment to monogamy...
...leaving my boat for other affairs: a dalliance with a house in Berkeley, a fling with a high-rise in Hong Kong. But I still look back on my Parisian home with wistfulness and a hint of self-satisfaction. At any gathering of Iyer's global souls, a houseboat in Paris trumps a penthouse in Manhattan every time...
...Chinese Communist Party has come a long way since its first congress in 1921; a conspiratorial gathering that took place in a houseboat near Shanghai. It now appears before the world as a modern ruling group, a confident technocracy in suits and ties, complete with a high tech press center. But on closer inspection, the Party is only half-modernized, just like the country's economy?part skyscraper, part feudal village...
There's a delicious secret shared by veteran journalists reporting on Kashmir. It's called Butt's Houseboats. The chance for a correspondent to return to Gulam Butt's stately pine-paneled cabins on the shores of Dal Lake, gaze up at the snowy Himalayas and feast under chandeliers on minced goat curry, spiced spinach and cardamom tea, has for years helped keep the conflict near the top of the news agenda. The guest book, filled with enraptured reporters' reviews, contains some of the most earnest writing many of these war hacks have ever produced. "Once more, an island...