A good last-minute alternative: You can print out (or download to a PDA) the self-guided tour at grandcentralterminal.com.
A hire car was essential for the Rees family holiday – they had booked a villa – so they had no choice but to find a last-minute alternative.
Here Jose finds a last-minute alternative to the tent: a one-roomed stone hut that is home to Antonio, the oldest man in the village.
For weeks, I have been corresponding with Angelica, another Medellín couchsurfer, but she isn't going to be around when I am due to arrive and has recommended Raul as a last-minute alternative.
Many others turned out because they object to both Mr. Morsi and Mr. Shafik and are still hoping for some last-minute alternative, or to rally voters to boycott the vote entirely.
"This last-minute alternative is apparently being offered so that Republicans who fear crossing the Washington gun lobby can go home and say that they voted for something," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Keith Vogelsong, the label co-founder, was scrambling to find a last-minute alternative venue when we spoke to him, but didn't sound too hopeful it's CMJ and the whole city is pretty much booked.
The walkout, which a seething Mayor Thomas M. Menino called an illegal strike, threw thousands of families into chaos, with many parents forced to skip work to take their children to and from school, and others scrambling with last-minute alternatives and day-care plans.
At 25, Rachael Allen is the youngest: a fact that helps explain her poetry's up-to-the-minute contemporaneity, alternative humour, and occasional shoulder-shrugging cool.
So MTV began packaging its videos in clearly delineated formats -- "120 Minutes" for alternative fare and "Yo! MTV Raps" for hip-hop -- and producing more original shows like "Remote Control" and "The Real World".
