Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wander at night through the center of Moscow, past the casinos with their grand prizes--a sports car, a small helicopter--hoisted up on platforms, past the young girl offering to rent out her horse for a late-evening ride, and you realize that the Russian capital is like nowhere else. It's a showplace for excess but also a village: many grim Stalin-era buildings encircle cozy courtyards where children play on swings and pensioners walk their dogs. One of the delights of today's Moscow is that its food spans the same wild spectrum: from world class...
...Have your budget in mind ahead of time so that you are looking for merchandise you know is definitely in your price range, recommends Mirror Mirror's Fowler. If you have a digital camera or a Polaroid, she adds, take pictures of antiques you are considering buying as you wander from store to store so that you can visually compare different items at the end of the day. Examine pieces carefully by opening drawers and cabinets. Look for water damage and nicks. Find out the history, age and original location of the pricier pieces you're thinking of buying, urges...
...several temples, waterfalls and hot springs scattered throughout the valley. Or you can just hang out. "The distractions here are the ones you make for yourself," says Daniel Eiland, a twentysomething Thai-American musician at Latino Swimming Pool who moved to Pai from Chiang Mai several years ago. A wander through the daily afternoon market on Rungsiyanon Road offers a great window on Pai-style multiculturalism. Wizened Karen hill-tribe grandmas with dark turbans wrapped around their heads sell hand-embroidered crafts on the sidewalk. Teenage Lisu girls in their traditional vivid tunics and black trousers?accessorized with frilly pink...
...appearance: the snow-capped peak looms high above the natural amphitheater to stage left. The audience swells to more than twice the size of the first day's; ticket prices are slashed, and whole families from the environs of Lijiang turn up. Miao minority women in ornate, outsize headgear wander the periphery and look on curiously; sanitation workers move through the crowd picking up garbage with chopsticks. I catch only one whiff of dope smoke?surprising, considering that cannabis grows wild all over Yunnan. But the cops just downwind from the lone toker don't seem to notice. They...
...Tsukiji Fish Market, the biggest in the world, at dawn to watch fishermen hawking every water-dwelling creature known to man. Explore the outdoor arcade for exquisite kitchen goods and a sushi breakfast. Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market, Tsukiji. GLIMPSE OF OLD EDO At Asakusa in historic downtown Tokyo, wander up Nakamise-dori poking through the stalls for souvenirs. Buy your fortune - translated into very bad English - at Sensoji Temple. POWER LUNCH Unlike its New York and London counterparts, Nobu Tokyo doesn't make you wait three months for a table. Plus, it features a delightful midday prix-fixe meal...