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...your brush with art needn't end at the museum exits. These days, you can stay in hotels that are part accommodation, part art space. Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena was both art center and hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, in an old chapel...
...Upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason of London's Piccadilly will ship shortbread, Gentleman's Relish (posh anchovy paste) and hampers worldwide. www.fortnumandmason.com...
...smoke anything - trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich - and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk Cottage Delight of Staffordshire will send home-made date-and-walnut cake, flapjacks, ginger biscuits, vanilla fudge, mango chutney, apple sauce, thick-cut marmalade and piccalilli (it's a mustard pickle) worldwide. www.cottagedelight.co.uk Upmarket emporium Fortnum & Mason of London 's Piccadilly will ship shortbread, Gentleman's Relish (posh anchovy paste) and some hampers worldwide. www.fortnumandmason.com Brits abroad miss basic corner-shop fare. Expat Shopping delivers worldwide those delicacies they can't live without: English mustard, Marmite, baked beans, mint jelly, brown sauce and well...
...uncertainty, they scoffed at it, giving the Howard government its fourth successive term with an historic increased majority, scuppering the Labor Party's revival hopes with a 3.3% swing to the Coalition, and whipping Howard supporters into a joyous fervor. At the Liberal Party's function at an upmarket central Sydney hotel on Saturday night, an exultant Howard struggled to contain the crowd's noisy praise. "You beauty!" went up the shout after the Prime Minister called in vain for quiet. "You bloody beauty...
...Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena, tel: (31-20) 850 2420, was an art center-cum-hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, built in an old chapel...