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...Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study in seersucker, points to a sign outside the manor and speaks of it as if to miss it is to overlook a whale...
Tanya Johnson Briarcliff Manor...
...peacetime have so many Yanks deployed themselves across the map of Europe in search of entertainment, uplift and, dammit, a good time. It may all prove a little too much for some. But England, as usual, has the answer. Its name is Ragdale Hall. A gracious old country manor in the midst of the rolling Leicestershire hunt country, it exists to restore and rehabilitate vacationers who are suffering from too much dammit. Rooms start at $61 a day, and guests are offered psychocalisthenics, saunas, massage, beauty treatments, tennis, swimming, diet meals, no children, no tour guides and no alcohol. There...
...Switzerland, by which travelers can choose in advance from hundreds of participating inns and hotels; a tourist is thus free to arrive with only 24 hours' prior notification. One way of escaping the formalities of hotel living is to stay at a farm or a country manor. Private agencies and government tourist commissions make such accommodations available at low prices. Many European countries offer prix fixe tourist meals that are obtainable at hundreds of restaurants for as little...
There are bird-watching tours, famous-garden tours and even trips arranged by half a dozen organizations in England that allow a privileged few tourists a chance to stay in stately homes with their titled occupants. For $90 a night, the venerable Lady Heald of Chilworth Manor, a converted 11th century monastery, will entertain and dine with a couple. Car buffs can arrange visits to the Mercedes, Lamborghini, Ferrari and BMW factories and the antique-car museums of Europe. The cost for that is about $2,900 for two weeks (airfare included), but the participant can save...