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Amen/Aman: Soft side of rock hard Posted: 31 Oct 2009 02:33 PM PDT Recession? What recession? Amangroupies take note: The newest in the ultra chic and haute, haute, haute chain of boutique resorts has opened just north of Page, Ariz., and Lake Powell, amidst 600 private, gated acres of rock canyons and plateaus. Like its siblings in the Amanresorts chain, the Amangiri, Sanskrit for peaceful mountain, is tricked [...]
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Camino to Santiago: Bilbao effects Posted: 31 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT I take back all those unflattering things I've said in the past about Bilbao. That stuff about how it's the "the Pittsburgh of Spain." Yes, it's an iron city. Yes, the Ría that runs through it is brown. And yes, it's annoying, if not panic-inducing, that the Guggenheim Bilbao is now listed in 1000 Places to See Before You Die. But the city that inspired a planning cliché, "the Bilbao effect" (build a Big-Name-Architect museum and you'll soon be polishing up your rusting economy with wads of tourist dollars), is more than all that.
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