WHY spend three hours of a balmy summer night with Chekhov when there is far lighter, more vacationy fare around?
But lest anyone think Brooklyn's gastronomic glories are limited to these classics, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce last year created Brooklyn's Kitchen, a program intended to help the borough's food manufacturers develop and increase sales of Brooklyn fare around the country.
With a stomach full of fares from around the world, I danced to the hired band's awful, Italian-accented cover of John Denver's "Country Roads" and started to grasp the extent of my new international lifestyle.
This year, he put off buying airline tickets after turning up fares of around $450 apiece during the spring and summer.
Ryanair's boss, Michael O'Leary, recently reiterated a promise that he would eventually sell transatlantic flights from as little as €10 ($13) one-way and with average return fares of around €200-300.
It can make up to £20m operating profit a year carrying passengers between London and New York, at a return fare of around £7,000.
There's plenty of good atmospheric winter fare around at the moment, from Emma Carroll's lovely Victorian The Snow Sister to Misha Hoekstra's new translation of Andersen's The Snow Queen.
One after-hours option is the Metro Café (Avenida Orellana at the corner of Rábida; 593-2-255-2570), which prepares diner fare around the clock.
Rather than planning a summertime vacation, I opted for two weeks in the fall "shoulder" season, in order to take advantage of lower fares all around, from airfare to lodging and everything else.
The fare around Macao is about 25 cents.
