Sentences with phrase «feel for the place»

You can save a lot of money this way, and you'll get a better feel for a place by living like a local.

If there's a city tour option where you ride local transportation you get a more intimate feel for a place than if you're looking at it from a bus.

That way, you inevitably get to see so much more and develop a much deeper feeling for the place.

You will get a good feel for the place if you visit them in person.

3 full days there was the perfect amount of time to see all that we wanted and get a good feel for the place.

I had been to Palm Springs last year for the first time but lived a bit out of the city and didn't quite get the right feel for the place.

Working again in his native Baltimore, the writer - director maintains the documentary - style feel for place that has infused all his features.

these 2 days in Athens should have given you a fairly well rounded feel for the place, next time you visit Greece perhaps you'll give it a better chance to win you over!

Profile Senior Project - and Change Manager with a strong feel for placing the right person on the right position within an organization.

Hitchhiking, like biking, really does allow you a more intimate feel for a place and it's inhabitants.

I feel like meeting the locals and shopping like a local gives me a better feel for a place.

That's a proper amount of time to get a feel for a place.

If you can't visit a camp, interview the director and some staff members to get a feel for the place.

«Ask about the training the staff has had... sometimes you get a feel for a place just by visiting.»

The best way to get a feel for the place you are staying is to discover it on foot or by bicycle.

While that sounds strange, click through to the website to get a feel for the place.

It's full of affection for her home town, though a bit short on specific details — you don't get much a feel for the place apart from underwhelming views of bridges, highways and parking lots, but maybe that's the point — and for Christine's lovably imperfect family.

But what gives the movie an added edge is its feeling for place: This second - tier tourist attraction isn't a nonstop summer party, but a mortifying way station for America's future writers and Gogol scholars.

Create a centrally - managed system to allow students to visit high schools on Shadow Days, where they can go through a student schedule and get a feel for the place.

In the end, of course, where your community falls in the rankings is unlikely to drastically change your feelings for the place you live.

But the fact that Toronto scores poorly for housing, unemployment and crime severity isn't likely to change Ken McGoogan's feelings for the place.

They feel it for the place, the people and of course the waves.

Okay, so I like walking, and I'm pretty sure any city - break article I write would include the (not so) revelatory idea that walking about is a great way to get a feel for a place.

There is an unspectacular diner where Max's used to be, but I was adamant to get a feel for the place that once was, so I came back armed with my iPod in ear playing The Velvet Underground live at Max's Kansas City and the book Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour and Rock and Roll by Steven Kasher in hand.

Cody 1 beat a trail through the tall brown grass to give us a feel for the place.

There is no better way to get a feel for a place than from the seat of your car, the open road before you; nothing to do, nowhere to be but exactly where you are, exploring and appreciating the scene as it unfolds before you.

For me it takes about three months to get a feel for a place, to get to know part of the local community and to feel I have lived somewhere instead of just visited.

In almost every place that we stop at on Canadian Rockies holidays, there will be a guided tour or an exciting excursion that allows you to get a feel for the place.

Not because I cycle at home — I don't even own a bike — but because I like being active on my travels and think that exploring on two wheels is one of the best ways to get a feel for a place.

They're not all masterpieces and I'm just looking to give people a feel for the places they're heading rather than a lesson in amazing photography.

Waiting to book your tour in Asia also gives you a better feel for a place and provides an opportunity to speak with travelers who may have just finished tours in the area.

I'm the complete opposite from a budget traveler but love how you described getting a feel for the place over the first few months, longer time period, etc..

As the players begins to get a feel for the place and engage with other characters via dialogue options, there's a sinister aura to the place and its inhabitants that leads to a lot of fantastic back and forth wordplay as David tries to learn more about the other characters.

This feeling for place and the arrangement of features in a landscape is more or less a constant in Nash's work, from his sombre early watercolours of a group of pollarded elms at the bottom of the family garden at Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire, right through to the late blazing masterpieces in which his beloved Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire are depicted at the vernal equinox.»

To get a feel for the place, read a couple of my past reports for The Times from the region — on the annual lobster boat races and a boom in the 1990s in sea urchin harvests bound for Japan.

Can you spend a couple of weeks in the new location to help get a feel for the place?

Use the time waiting in reception to get a feel for the place.

If you plan on visiting Billings before you buy, we suggest bringing along some climbing gear or renting while you're there, so you can get a little taste of adventure while you are getting a feel for the place.

Or simply relax in some comfy chairs on the porch to get a feel for the place while perusing strategically placed feature sheets.

«You can use words to create a feeling for a place,» Haboush says.

really have a feel for the place.

Before slowly transforming the property, the owners wanted to get a feel for the place and how their family lived in it.