Certainly it was with my daily breakfast on the verandah of the Chittagong Club.

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In bohemian Santa Teresa, Solar de Santa is a magnificent blue-shuttered colonial mansion with balconies and a deep verandah.

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Mayor MORAN: Oh very important, we spend all our time down here on the verandah, you know.

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The pantry also has two additional doors that swing out to a formal dining room and an outdoor dining verandah.

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"The people and their problems will always be with us, " says Don Pedro, the family patriarch, as we sit on the verandah of the hacienda clubhouse.

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The club now has over 1, 000 members and on Thursday's "club night, " Pioneer Hill is a bright bubbling throng of Chittagong high society, imbibing scotch and munching snacks as they gaily solve the world's problems sitting amid the blue smoke and twinkling lights and laughter of that wondrous panoramic verandah.

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Yesterday afternoon, a few hours before we set sail from Bangkok, I asked Sebastian to bring vodka martinis and caviar for a little departure party I was having on the verandah. (Cabins on the Penthouse Deck and on decks nine, eight, and some on seven have them.) Around six, when we were slated to push off from the dock.

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