Word: parkes
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...colleges continue to stir international curiosity, provide spectacle and further sporting opportunities.Here at Harvard, one is afforded the unique opportunity to not only watch elite collegiate athletes participate in 41 different varsity sports, but also to experience the smoldering embers of Boston’s sporting soul. Walking through Park Street, overhearing drawling voices discussing the fortunes of the Celtics, Pats, Bruins and Sox, you are reminded how deeply interwoven sport is with the fabric of society; you are reminded how, even in the commercially driven world of American sports, the affinity connecting fan and sport is universal.Ultimately, one word...
Country Roads. In Shenandoah National Park, just 90 miles from Washington, D.C., the Skyland Resort and the Big Meadow Lodge are offering Girlfriend Getaways, with a guided hikes to see wildflowers and horseback rides through the Shenandoah Mountains. In the evening, local Virginia wine and cheeses are delivered to your room. Weekend rates start at $499 for two people, for two nights...
Rocky Mountain High. At Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, there's a two-night Indian Arts and Culture Festival package at the Far View Lodge, which includes a half-day ranger-guided tour of Cliff Palace and Chapin Mesa sites. Priced at $399, including full breakfast, the package is only valid for arrivals...
OUTDOORS Nobel Park, Ostermalm The park runs all along the water and has the most beautiful jogging tracks. Woodland Cemetery Really a forest designed by architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. You see rabbits and hares bounding around. Greta Garbo is buried there. Arenavagen 41 (08-508-301-00; skogskyrkogarden.se) Rosendal's Garden Biodynamic gardeners have turned the greenhouses into poetry. They have apple exhibitions and a café, and you can cut flowers. Rosendals-terrassen 12 (08-545-812-70; rosendalstradgard.se...
...Hong Kong, it can be hard just finding somewhere to sit down. The fourth most densely populated place in the world, the city sees its park benches packed while strangers share restaurant tables. And for the 40,000 people who die there every year, it turns out there's no respite from the crowds either. While land shortages forced most Hong Kongers to abandon burials in the 1980s, now the city has run out of space even for cremated ashes. By some estimates, around 50,000 families are presently storing their relatives' remains in funeral homes while they wait, perhaps...