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Rumored to be the tallest residential building between Rockford and Chicago, this slick updated condo has it all! Features includes in unit laundry, private rooftop deck with spectacular views of the city skyline and surrounding suburbs. The building includes an outdoor pool area, workout facility, and secure elevator to the the penthouse units. Two bedroom, two Bathroom, and 1700 square feet. Close to the Metra train and shopping. City living with suburban conveniences!
Connie Antoniou
Hunter's Fairway Sotheby's International Realty
101 South Wynstone Park Drive
North Barrington, Illinois 60010
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The OSU Urban Arts Space offers tours of the Lazarus Building rooftop gardens on the first Tuesday of every month. Guests will get an inside look at current exhibitions of the space in addition to the beautiful green roof gardens.
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Residents can chill in the rooftop pool or relax on the expansive sundeck. The historic laundry also houses a state-of-the-art fitness center – one of the largest and most comprehensive of any condominium in town. Adjacent to the fitness center is a billiard lounge with two 10-foot Brunswick pool tables. To stake your claim in a place where innovation still lives, call 202-628-0460 visit www.yalelofts.com.
Even when stuck at home with a few minutes to play with, a sky like this just has to be captured. Chimney tops act as a nice silhouette in this case.
A new day arrives and I’m feeling…blue. After sleeping on another overnight train ride from way out west in Jaisalmer, we arrived in Jodhpur early on Wednesday, September 30. Jodhpur is close to the center of the state. It’s a city of roughly one million people (unlike Jaisalmer, which is less than 100,000). That being said, though, people don’t come here to see one million people.
Visitors primarily come to Jodhpur to see Mehrangarh (the massive fort high above the city) and the Old City. The Old City is…blue. Enough of the buildings – about half, I’d say – have been painted blue which gives vistas of the city from up at the fort the feeling of a blue city below. Blue historically represented that a Brahmin lived in the building, though non-Brahmins also started painting their houses blue as well.
If you are in the mood to “get lost” wandering around alleys, leave your map behind and just explore. There are plenty of options for shopping in the old city and it’s small enough that you won’t truly get lost. The clock tower (not an old clock tower; perhaps 100 years old) is a good point of reference. Besides, next to the clock tower – close enough to say it’s next to it – are a few of the famous omelette stalls. I ate here both on Wednesday and Thursday. Garam masala omelettes with cheese and turmeric are wonderful. (I now make these at home, since I bought most any Indian spice that came to mind between here and Jaisalmer. Among those I bought: turmeric, lemon rice masala, potato masala, tandoori masala, garam masala, onion garlic masala, and saffron. My kitchen is a truly happy place…)
Other than shopping for spices, I didn’t do much in the Old City besides happily wander around with my camera and eat. Our base for Jodhpur was the Hare Krishna Guesthouse. There are enough guesthouses in Jodhpur that it probably isn’t necessary to make a reservation, but if you can, why not? Better safe than sorry. As far as these places go, the proprietor was very cordial and helpful, and the room was about what you’d expect for the price. That is to say, it was comfortable enough. I had no complaints.
After checking in and eating breakfast (lemon pancakes) at the rooftop restaurant attached to our guesthouse (almost all guesthouses here have rooftop restaurants, just as in the fort at Jaisalmer and in our next stop: Udaipur), we started walking to Umaid Bhawan Palace. This is about 3 km southeast of the Old City and we eventually hopped in a tuktuk (which I would have preferred to take the entire way there; they’re cheap, after all).
Umaid Bhawan Palace is…a living residence. It’s a 365 room palace built in 1929. Lonely Planet India tells me that the current royal resident is Gaj Singh II (Bapji). I think there are probably very nice gardens here. However, I really wouldn’t know. You come to this palace and, though I suppose it’s worth the time and effort if you are tired of the old city and fort, then are pretty much told how little you can actually see. Obviously, the family lives here and doesn’t want to be bothered. No big deal. I got the suspicion that you see much less than 10% of the palace, though, and none of the grounds. (You go in the back door and come out the back door.) The museum part is…nice, but not spectacular. The palace itself is an attractive building and the car collection is nice. At the end of it all, though, this is the impression you get: “Come look at me; I’m rich!...but don’t come too close.” Still, to pass an hour or two, it’s fine.
The rest of Wednesday was spent wandering the streets of the Old City and taking a very roundabout way up to Mehrangarh. From Mehrangarh, I walked another half kilometer on the hill to Jaswant Thada. It’s a memorial to Maharaja Jaswant Singh II above a small lake. Although admission was cheap, it didn’t look too impressive to me – and no more impressive than the views from up there – so I didn’t go in. I eventually walked back to the hotel where I ate dinner and just enjoyed the views of the fort lit up from the rooftop restaurant.
Thursday morning, the only thing on the agenda was to go to Mehrangarh. Though the fort doesn’t have as long a history as those of Jaisalmer or Jaipur, it is an impressive structure nonetheless and certainly worth the visit. The tickets were about $5, which included an audio tour. All around, it’s a nice fort and interesting, but not of the blow-your-socks-off variety. Still, it’s a great way to spend the morning. The rest of the day in Jodhpur, we spent at the Namaste Cafe in the Old City where I can’t begin to tell you how well I ate. I particularly enjoyed the food here along with the relaxing atmosphere and background music. (This is a recurring theme in India: eat, and eat well. Restaurants tend to be safe, but avoid anything on the trains…) After a quiet and relaxing day of, well…laziness…it was time to grab the luggage and head off to the bus station, where we had a sleeper bus to take us to Udaipur in the southern part of Rajasthan.