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...bucolic sleepiness that is the opposite of Penang's bustle. Visitors looking to experience something of the rural way of life followed for generations by the island's native Malays can book one of the four traditional all-wood houses at Bon Ton, a hotel and spa run by spunky expatriate Australian Narelle McMurtrie. The chalets range from $50 to $85 (tel: 60-4-955 3643/6787; www.bonton resort.com). Each house is different and all were brought in from remote villages and reassembled. Bon Ton also has a spa, a small shop selling artifacts from around the region, and a restaurant...
...Good things come in small packages...like mini-kits. Favorites include “The Spa Kit,” “The Fondue Kit,” “Party In A Box!” and the very necessary “Fashion Emergency Kit” (which includes a sewing kit, a compact lint brush, double-sided tape, a black marker and a 32-page tip book). $5.95. Hidden Sweets...
...like?but in a tasteful English country-house style rather than in anonymous airport decor. And if you've got the time, it's got a 27-hole golf course?the setting for James Bond's game against Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film?and a new $20 million spa and racquet club. It's also rich in history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older?previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept prisoner there by the Scots in 1647. It was Stoke...
...like - but in a tasteful English country-house style rather than in anonymous airport decor. And if you've got the time, it's got a 27-hole golf course - the setting for James Bond's game against Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film - and a new $20 million spa and racquet club. It's also rich in history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older - previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept prisoner there by the Scots in 1647. It was Stoke...
...friends and family are also often the best supporters in the aftermath. According to wedding consultant Sharon Naylor, some almost brides are throwing "broken-engagement" showers in lieu of bridal showers, in which guests offer the ex-bride gift certificates for spa treatments and celebrate her independence and courage. When his fiance opted out five weeks before their March 2003 wedding, Michael Manning, 32, a Denver-based marketer, nonetheless held a bachelor party. Friends and family with nonreturnable plane tickets came to a "She Loves Me Not" bowling bash. "What else was I going to do on my wedding night...