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...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...
...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...
...ticket price is just $6, compared with $19 for the majors. Throw in food, souvenirs and parking, and an evening for a family of four still averages $50 for the minors, vs. $140 for the majors. The friendly, open layout of minor-league parks is another plus. Kids can wander freely. (Do you know any 8-year-olds who can sit still for nine innings?) Clever owners provide kids with plenty of options: face painting, amusement-park rides, pitching cages where they can track the speed of their fastball. And kids are a lot closer to the players than 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...
...wall of almost every fast-food restaurant. I'm sorry Mr. Barber isn't well, but when you've had multiple heart attacks, and you continue to eat Biggie Fries for lunch, you've either got a serious lack of IQ points and probably shouldn't be allowed to wander the streets alone, or you've got a death wish...