Word: verandas
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...From the veranda where you take afternoon tea, the view unfurls around you - lush, rolling hills dotted with immaculate pastel cottages, pink sandy beaches and an iridescent, turquoise ocean - and you realize that Bermuda has a way of waking up the senses even as it quiets the mind. It is a true retreat to a sophisticated yet simple way of life, shared by a welcoming people who combine British reserve with considerable island warmth...
...economy." But her travel agency, Cruise Holidays, saw a deluxe cabin for a week in the Caribbean on a brand new ship, the Celebrity Solstice, at almost half price. For $1,100 per person, Yeary, who says she's never experienced the swank side of cruising, also gets a veranda, complimentary champagne, daily hors d'oeuvres and preferential treatment on shore excursions. "I wasn't expecting this," she says. "But it seems they have to do it to keep ships afloat in this scary state of affairs...
...burped softly and smiled to herself. How warm the day was! Her cheeks were slightly sunburnt, and she pressed them, first one, then the other, against the palms of her hands, which were cool from the glass. She wanted now to commune with the breezes, out on the veranda maybe, or in the shadows of the cypress trees. But first she had to attend to her master. As Roxanna tripped lightly down the hall toward Frederick’s chambers, she sang bits and snippets of an old Shropshire tune. “Hey nonny, hey nonny...In the spring...
...took over the house during World War II and used it as a barracks. After the soldiers left, de Zilwa sold the wrecked property to the prominent Bandaranaike family. From then on, it was always their house, a political house - where Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was shot on the veranda in 1959, and where his wife and successor, Sirimavo, would raise a son and two daughters, the younger of which, Chandrika, became the country's first elected female President...
...veranda at the governor's residence in the southwestern Venezuelan state of Barinas, Narciso Chavez stands up, lifts a leg and stomps the ground several times, laughing. He is demonstrating the country-and-western dance moves he learned years ago at bars near Daytona Beach. Nacho, as he's nicknamed, studied English in Florida, had a son with his American girlfriend in Ohio, and claims he's still the best English teacher in his hometown. More to the point, perhaps, he's the younger brother of President Hugo Chavez, which may be how he came to be stomping around...