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...bedrooms, and no TV sets. Upon arriving, the visitor is greeted by a lobby whose walls have been fashioned from giant old-fashioned olive vats, and which leads into open courtyards, scented gardens and a swimming pool overlooking the dramatic hills of southern Spain. The rooms have a rustic feel - if you're there in the summer, they are light and airy; in the winter they are warm with blazing fireplaces. That's because the Trasierra is a hotel of balances. It strikes an important one between intimacy and privacy, being small enough for a big group to rent...
...vendor ensconced in the centuries-old shop fronts. Green Shoes, tel: (44-1803) 864 997, cobbles to order "vegan" footwear, made from a synthetic leather called lorica. A few doors down, Willow Vegetarian Garden, tel: (44-1803) 862 205, serves mostly organic food and drink in a tasteful, rustic dining room. Nearby, small boutiques boast Japanese, British and other European designer threads, while others hawk surf and skater wear. And despite its ramshackle-sounding name, housewares retailer Tumble Home, tel: (44-1803) 863 024, stocks a collection of funky furniture...
...hipper breed of vendor ensconced in the centuries-old shop fronts. Green Shoes, tel: (44-1803) 864997, cobbles to order "vegan" footwear from a synthetic leather called Lorica. A few doors down, Willow Vegetarian Garden, tel: (44-1803) 862205, serves mostly organic food and drink in a tasteful, rustic dining room. Nearby, small boutiques boast Japanese, British and other European designer threads, while others hawk surf and skater wear. And despite its ramshackle-sounding name, housewares retailer Tumble Home, tel: (44-1803) 863024, stocks a collection of funky furniture. If you'd like to spend the night, try Norwegian Wood...
...Tracking HIV Yunnan is China's fourth largest province and historically one of its most mysterious and remote. (Its picturesque landscape of verdant hills and rustic villages inspired the legend of Shangri-La.) Its distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...
After a year at Middlebury College—“too rustic, I was too feminine for them”—and another year at Wellesley College—“I didn’t fit in with most of the girls there”—Chase transferred to Harvard in fall...