The media loves a good anniversary – by turning history into news, an anniversary legitimises interesting excursions into the past.
Towns such as St Jean de Luz, easy to get to by bike or train, make interesting excursions too.
As McCarthy charts "the lines and vectors linking all these people to one another," he presses the novel into some of its most interesting excursions.
In the island's interior, the English-speaking guides at Coop Ghivine lead some of the most interesting hiking excursions and archaeological tours around (00 39 338 8341618; ghivine.com) starting at €40 per person, with a packed lunch provided.
Milner also delves deep into the dense web of intersections between GPS – "the world's only free utility" – and all those other utilities we vitally depend on, with interesting side excursions into earthquake-detection and the GPS-assisted monitoring of offenders.
To the Editor: In "Going to Dresden" (Sept . 24, Gisela Williams could have mentioned the Moritzburg Palace as an interesting half-day excursion from the city.
It is interesting to note that these excursions do not occur in the polar profiles, suggesting that the deeper polar condensational clouds are somewhat less affected by changes in the photochemical clouds above.
For medium/small meetings, an arranged excursion to an interesting nearby destination or a formal meal with entertainment can create a much-appreciated bonding experience; if anyone thinks your choice of such an event is puerile or uninteresting, that's their problem.
Sure, there's a lot of "let's do it" and "that's amazing" or "this is so beautiful," and not every side excursion is as interesting as it may have seemed in the editing room (doughnuts in the desert are not as much fun to watch as they are to do).
Semi-aquatic turtles, which live in primarily aquatic habitats but make terrestrial excursions to lay eggs, offer an interesting model animal in which to study navigation.
Ti-ti-Man, half mulatto and half Chinese, warned her guest against social disease, and saw to it that his excursions, by boat and by bus, were interesting and inexpensive.
