Those not attracted by the romantic and sexual freedom on display in the series, which stars James Norton, Lydia Leonard, Jack Davenport, Eve Best and Rupert Penry-Jones, are likely to be lured instead by glimpses of the extravagant cottage-style garden, exquisite this wet weekend with daintily dripping petals.
Rhubarb, the hotel's restaurant, is so exquisite you could spend an entire weekend lazing around without even venturing out into the city.
On the other shoulder, Punished You, the version that wants to squeeze every dirty little drop of fun out of the weekend and lick it up like exquisite liquor.
Though the weekend's purpose is to showcase the exquisite pottery of artisans like Eric Smith, Hiroshi Nakayama and Michael McCarthy, it's also a great excuse to roam the beautiful countryside.
This holiday weekend, immerse yourself in García Márquez's exquisite short story "The Autumn of the Patriarch," which was excerpted from his 1975 novel of the same name in the magazine's September 27 , 1976 issue.
You've got to be kidding!" This was essentially the reaction from many friends and acquaintances when they learned I was delivering the opening keynote at a weekend retreat titled "Judaism and Baseball" this summer in the exquisite Berkshire Mountains of Connecticut.
"We have an exquisite, picture-perfect house," he said, "that can still be a refuge every weekend".
That said, the program the festival is offering this weekend is staid if undeniably pleasant: it brings together Mendelssohn's exquisite Octet and the chamber version of Copland's "Appalachian Spring".
There was an exquisite side-by-side placement of two obituaries in this newspaper just before the weekend, one of Murray Lender and the other of Samuel Glazer.
For the intellectually inclined, the Bard Music Festival, now part of the larger Bard SummerScape, begins on Friday and for two weekends covers the music of the Czech composer Leos Janacek (1854-1928) in exquisite detail with concerts and lectures.
