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...builds up this feeling of exclusion. The odd visitors who haunt this northern Bavarian town even in the off-season smile at secrets to which I am not privy. Locals are also obviously in the know, yet keep their distance...
...Ritz it ain't. Christina Ast's idea of a great summer vacation is mucking out cowsheds and picking potatoes with her three daughters and their children at Heinrich Winkelmann's farm on the heaths in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. At night, they bed down in the barn on a layer of hay. Never mind the mice audibly scurrying around in the dark or the spiders that crawl into their sleeping bags. "It's the most wonderful experience," says Ast, 47, a health-care administrator from Halle/Saale. "The hay is beautifully soft and warm and it crackles when...
Never heard of kiteboarding? Don't worry-20 years ago, people said the same thing about snowboarding. But 150 kiteboard riders and thousands of spectators descended last month on the town of Cabarete on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to participate in the Bestkiteboarding.com Cabarete World...
...here is like negotiating with the wind," one Western oil company executive says. The timing of the accusations against BG is curious, coming just weeks after the Kazakh government announced its intention to buy BG's stake in the multinational consortium contracted to exploit the Kashagan field in the northern Caspian Sea - the largest oil and natural-gas deposit to be discovered in the past 30 years. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Kashagan holds between 9 billion and 13 billion barrels of oil. Though crude is not expected to flow before 2008, Kashagan could produce more than...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Never heard of kite-boarding? Don't worry - 20 years ago, people said the same thing about snowboarding. But 150 kiteboard riders and thousands of spectators descended in June on the town of Cabarete on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to participate in the Bestkiteboarding.com Cabarete World Cup 2004. It's one of the most popular events on the Professional Kiteboard Riders Association World Cup Tour. Yep, there's a kiteboarding circuit now. The pastime - in which riders on small boards are propelled by large kites...