Word: siestas
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...year-old named Aguinaldo Salvaterra, the Tropicana is tucked behind the grand pink and blue Portuguese town houses that line the seafront of São Tomé. It's a little poky, but the beer is cold and, crucially in a town that rises late, enjoys a siesta and retires at dusk, Salvaterra rarely leaves his stool, which means the Tropicana is the one place in São Tomé that's nearly always open. Lately, that has made it the venue of choice for a new kind of customer. "British riggers, Scandinavian geologists, Japanese diplomats, you name...
...restaurant, I met Alecio Costa, a former mercenary who'd staged a coup in 2003 and held power for a week before, you know, realizing he really couldn't be bothered to exercise it, and giving it back. I roused the head of the National Petroleum Agency from his siesta and interviewed him as he sat bare-chested on his verandah with his unfastened belt hanging between his legs. I drank excellent coffee, ate some great dark, heavy chocolate, and when I ran out of people to meet, Danielo took me to see the Boca del Inferno (Mouth of Hell...
...over nervous owners, Dunkin' is pointing south, to Sarasota. At the prototype store, franchise partners Marvin Kaplan, Kevin Millard and Shawn Cabral say new chicken biscuits, flatbreads and pizzas account for 10% of sales. Their shop, close to popular Siesta Key Beach, is packed by 10 a.m. on weekends. It opened on Jan. 26 and is already beating sales at their other store, which is about a mile farther from the beach and brings in $1.2 million a year, according to Cabral. With more than 5,000 customers turning out for the first week and the average sale totaling...
...those with up-front cash.) "We have an expression here which means 'Work like a donkey, live like a person,'" says Gursel. "Turks are like the Spanish; we eat late, we stay up late and we start early the next day. But we don't have their tradition of siesta. We keep going...
...catch up on lost time. Take your mom's advice, and get to bed early. Turn off the TV half an hour sooner than usual. If you can't manage to snooze longer at night, try to squeeze in a midday nap. The best time for a siesta is between noon and 3 p.m., for about 30 to 60 minutes, according to Timothy Roehrs, director of research at the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He advises against oversleeping on weekend mornings to make up for a workweek of deprivation; late rising can disrupt your...