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The Good Life.(Velentine's Day offers at hotels and resorts)(Hiro's Yakko San Miami restaurant)(Cologne Carnival)
Byline: Esther Bintliff; Jeanne Hilary; David Patrician; Bruce Jaffe; Lauren Mack; Linda Stern
Travel: Period Valentines
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the art of romance has dwindled in recent years. To put a little heat back in the hearth, why not spend Valentine's Day--and night--with a luxury getaway, period-drama style? Escape to Jane Austen's England at the George in the quaint town of Rye. A coaching inn since 1575, it has hosted three King Georges (I, II and IV); it reopened last year after exquisite renovation by set dresser Katie Clarke and her husband, Alex. Clarke has exploited her contacts to the max: the Georgian ballroom boasts hand-painted chinoiserie by 18th-century specialists De Gournay, who papered Keira Knightley's bedroom in "Pride and Prejudice" (from [euro]334 per night for the Valentine's package; thegeorgeinrye.com ).
Want something wilder? Re-create Heathcliff and Cathy's windswept "Wuthering Heights" liaisons on the rugged Yorkshire moors by visiting the real Penistone Crag in Ponden Kirk. Return to a roaring fire at the Devonshire Arms, where the Bronte sisters used to meet for tea. It's now an exclusive hotel complete with four-poster beds and a Michelin-starred restaurant ([euro]842 per night; thedevonshirearms.co.uk ).
For a more temperate getaway, request the Room With a View at the Hotel San Anselmo in Rome, with baroque Italian decor reminiscent of the classic Merchant-Ivory movie (from [euro]720 for the four-night Valentine's package; aventinohotels.com ).
Those eager to exercise their inner knights and damsels should visit the Three Sisters in Tallinn, Estonia, with its oak-beamed ceilings and secret stairways. The three adjoining 14th-century merchants' houses merge the simple lines of medieval design with chrome and marble bathrooms and flat-screen satellite TVs ([euro]926 for the Lovers' Escape weekend; threesistershotel.com ). You might even live happily ever after.
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