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Walking in the Footsteps of Sir Christopher Wren: The architect who rebuilt so much of London after the Great Fire of 1666 is best known for his churches. Walk from St. Bride's, on Fleet Street, past his icon, St. Paul's Cathedral, to St. Mary-le-Bow and beyond to appreciate his genius.
Shopping in the Grandest Department Store of Them All: And, no, it isn't Harrods. Liberty of London, 210-220 Regent St., W1 (tel. 020/7734-1234), was founded in 1875 and moved to its current half-timbered, mock-Tudor home in 1924. London's rediscovered hunger for classic fabrics and vintage style has seen Liberty catapulted right back to the forefront of cool. It's the West End's best shopping spot, but you'll need to pack the credit card.Imagining Domestic Life Through the Ages: At the Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Rd., E2 (tel. 020/7739-9893; www.geffrye-museum.org.uk), period re-creations of interiors from the spartan 1630s to the flashy 1990s allow visitors to understand how home life has changed. Travel 500 years in an hour on an absorbing visual and personal retelling of the history of middle-class London.
Staying at a Classic Mayfair Hotel: From the Art Deco interiors of Claridge's, Brook St., W1 (tel. 020/7629-8860; www.claridges.co.uk), to the liveried door attendants of the Connaught, Carlos Place, W1 (tel. 020/7499-7070; www.the-connaught.co.uk), nothing screams historic London quite like the city's most upscale hotel area. Comfort has never gone out of style here, so start saving right away.
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Hike up to Boulder's Flatirons and watch the first ascent of the latest hard sport route, or catch a climber on a speed record solo mission. Step into one of five world-class training facilities and find a shirtless crew of climbing's top talent shredding tips on the bouldering wall. Take a short drive up Clear Creek Canyon to claim your spot on one of hundreds of moderate sport climbs.
Here in the Boulder-Denver area, we have no shortage of terrain on which to play, train, and get psyched up or beaten down. The diversity of climbing opportunities, styles and rock types, let alone the quantity and quality available, is reason alone for the sport to thrive].
Sport climbers, boulderers and trad hardmen will all find a welcome home in our playground of rock. In fact, for the ambitious, it's not entirely unreasonable to spend the wee hours of the morning tackling the historic 1,000-foot rockface known as the Diamond, head down to Rocky Mountain national park for a midday bouldering session before the thunderstorms hit, and be back in Boulder in time for an evening gym session.
And rest assured, your calorific expenditure will be well-rewarded at one of hundreds of world-class restaurants on Pearl Street that night. Whether you're a protein-crazed meat lover, a staunch vegan, or a chocolate soufflé connoisseur, we take our food seriously after a hard day's exercise.
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Among downhill aficionados the word "flat" often finds its way into descriptions of Norway's skiing potential, yet as I sat on our sunny terrace surrounded by precipitous pinnacles I put such comments down to malicious propaganda. Hemsedal doesn't boast the challenges of the Alps – of the 45 runs the majority are green and blue, but there are enough reds and blacks to keep my fanatical husband and children happy.
My favourite was a long, leisurely blue, winding its way from the top of the mountain, that took a good 30 minutes to ski and was virtually empty until the lower slopes. The only company on the descent was the whistle of the wind, the swish of my skis and the endless anecdotes of my seven-year-old son, who has an unparalleled ability to gabble and ski simultaneously.
Despite my Nordic genes I'll never be a champion skier. I'm brimful of fear, with not a gung-ho vein in my body, but my family are a different matter. I realised a couple of years ago during our debut ski trip that I was set to be a ski widow. Molly and Dan, five and six at the time, couldn't wait to hurtle down the slopes at terrifying speed. Such was their aptitude that my husband took them down their first black run on that trip. Luckily I only found out about it afterwards. My own earliest ski memory dates back to my kindergarten sports day just outside Oslo. I was five years old and lost courage halfway down the snow steps carved into the slope for our "fun run". I sat down and wept, and the snickering of my classmates still echoes down the decades.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Norway is one of Europe's most insufficiently populated countries. With a masses of only 5 million people and a territory scope of 385,802 km2, the people thickness is only 16 occupants for each km2. A vast part of the people are Norwegians. The indigenous Sami people by and large have the northern bit of Norway, that nearby parts of Sweden, Finland and Russia follows a region known as ""Sapmi"" (or "Sameland"). Other saw minorities are the Kven people, Jews, Forest Finns, and Norwegian Romani Travelers.