Inside, the Murano LE was warm and luxurious, yet businesslike in its subdued colors, high-quality materials, ergonomically superior controls and seamless fit — what Nissan's marketing gurus have dubbed the "mobile suite".
Every visitor to Switzerland should sample at least one bubbling cauldron of cheesy stuff, and Restaurant les Armures, inside the Hôtel les Armures (1, rue du Soleil-Levant; 41-22-310-3442; www.hotel-les-armures.ch), is a fondue institution.
What the French call le microcosme, which is the Paris equivalent of the Westminster village or inside-the-beltway Washington, has been abuzz ever since.
Inside, the church is painted pink and white, and the words "Si Tu Savais le Don le Dieu"—"If you knew the gift of God"—are printed above the altar in gold.
On Friday nights white-collar professionals sit next to purple-haired punks over bottles of Einsiedler beer inside the Sous le Pont restaurant, while bands from all over the world rock late into the night in the Dachstock venue upstairs.
Inside the renovated Le Bernardin in Midtown Manhattan, the pink flowers are as tall as dogwoods and the latticework walls give off a coppery, sci-fi sheen, and Christopher Kimball, the most influential home cook in America, prods a fork into an appetizer of Wagyu beef, langoustine and osetra caviar from China.
INSIDE THE TIMES A headline on a capsule summary last Sunday for a magazine article about the writer John le Carré misstated his age.
There were 15 suitcase-sized bags, each with up to 30kg of methamphetamine – which is known as "P" in New Zealand – inside, which Le Prou likened to drug hauls depicted in movies.
· The Le Corbusier hotel is inside Corbusier's Cite Radieuse complex - a double room costs 60 euros per night, breakfast is 7 euros per person.
