The store's ambience changes with its stock: One day a woman buys a giant vintage carousel sign that has taken up most of one wall for months; soon enough the space is filled when another customer walks in with an extensive taxidermy collection she has been hoping to unload.
As you travel westwards in Montenegro, the ambience changes from the alpine/eastern European vibe of the northern mountains to something more Italian, with stunning medieval towns such as Budva on the coast (Beppler & Jacobson is opening its second hotel, the Avala, here later this month).
Indeed, a rival conference sprang up there after a new Somos chairman, Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz, moved the Somos conference to the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza, a hotel with a less inviting beach and a less festive ambience — a change some saw as an effort to put more emphasis on serious policy discussion.
The setting, ambience, and change of scenery make sex feel new and different, and more appealing.
"The ambience has changed rather than any one thing changing," says Khatibi. "The lack of trust - that hard, strict wall between artists and politicians - has been eliminated".
The ambience also changes dramatically after the summer season has ended; when I visited in late March, restaurants that had been packed just weeks earlier (according to a friend) were at most half full on a weeknight, though business reportedly picks up during weekends much of the year, since the weather is pleasant most of the time.
"The acoustical renovation is being handled by Abe Melzer, who said "We will change the ambience very little except to make people more comfortable.
But Mrs. Hirsch, the civic association president, said she worried that many of the expanded houses overwhelm their lots and change the ambience of the neighborhood.
