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...Looking for some place fit for a rock star? It doesn't get much better than Sydney's Moog Hotel, tel: (61-2) 8353 8200. Named after the iconic keyboard-synthesizer, and with its knowing, 1970s-style d?cor, Moog is the perfect setting for a glam-rock debauch. Given that it offers just one, extravagant suite, reservations are essential. (There's another apartment, but it belongs to the hotel's owners and is only available when they're away...
...yourself of a butler, a chef, a gym and a pool smack in the heart of Sydney's chic Darlinghurst quarter. Feel like having company? Then pop into the adjoining bar, which is open to the public and packed with local cognoscenti. If you really want to live the rock 'n' roll dream, there's a fully equipped recording studio on site. And Moog has even installed waterproof TV screens by the poolside, along with underwater speakers encased in glass. With diversions like these, it hardly seems worth the effort to chuck your TV set into the pool like those...
Mention mountain climbing, and most people envisage an exhausting clamber up sheer rock faces or dangling from a nylon rope in all weathers. That's absolutely true of some peaks, but Asia also offers less taxing alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation...
...policies of global vandalism and institutionalized lawlessness. Some in the U.S. seem to think that the American dead in European war cemeteries are a more than adequate and compelling reason for European subservience to U.S. dictates. That is bunkum. Bush should have been sent packing and roundly rejected. Oliver Rock Berlin For the time being at least, the European Union has succeeded in conveying to President Bush that he should learn from history and avoid another misadventure, this time in Iran. Unity among the European Union leaders was the hallmark of that significant change. They have also publicly expressed anguish...
Mention mountain climbing, and most people envisage an exhausting clamber up sheer rock faces or dangling from a nylon rope in all weathers. That's absolutely true of some peaks, but Asia also offers less taxing alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation. Preclimb points to remember: carry plenty of drinking water to ward off dehydration at higher altitudes; pack warm, waterproof gear; take it easy...