In the New York metropolitan area, the choices for brief summer escapes are rich indeed -- from visiting a string of 11 old lighthouses on the New Jersey coast to churning butter in a 19th-century village on Long Island.
On their real estate hunt, however, the Waters couple visited a long string of homes whose rural charm had been replaced by modern luxuries.
And in the wake of their visits, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.
A former city crane inspector was found guilty on Friday of claiming to have inspected six cranes that he had not actually visited, part of a string of lapses by the Department of Buildings that came to light after two separate crane collapses in 2008 killed nine people.
They bought from local oystermen who worked natural beds in the public domain, and they usually had to visit a whole string of little ports and landings before they got a load.
But don't get overexcited: visits to a string of Copenhagen sex shops, both straight and gay - strictly on your behalf, dear reader - left us cold, too.
Instead, venture a hundred yards up the boardwalk past the Aquarium (also worth a visit), where a string of authentic Russian restaurants on the Little Odessa beachfront serve up Kvas, Chicken Tabak and vodka by the gram.
ROCKIES 3, ASTROS 1: Pedro Astacio pitched a three-hitter and Todd Helton hit a two-run homer as visiting Colorado snapped a string of 22 scoreless innings.
When the Guardian visited Baku in December, a string of activists, underground opposition politicians, bloggers, journalists and campaigners expressed hope that it could have the opposite effect to that intended by Aliyev.
In January Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visited the island with a string of businessmen in tow, signing trade and investment deals worth $1 billion.Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has reversed his predecessor's policy of speaking out against the lack of human rights in Cuba, and has restored his country's traditionally close ties.
