Caffe Strada, on Bancroft Avenue, across the street from campus, is alive and well.

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But Strada is still here, and man their cafe au lait is killer.

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Later this year look for a redesigned Hypermotard, a new flagship Granturismo, and a new Diavel Strada and Hyperstrada.

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About 120 diners were evacuated from the Strada restaurant at the five-storey Cupola House, Bury St Edmunds, when fire broke out in June.

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Less than one-third of all visitors to Venice stick around after sunset, missing out on romantic canalside dining and family-run guesthouses tucked away behind the Strada Nova pedestrian thoroughfare in the district of Cannaregio.

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Speckled by ancient ruins, it even has a wine route: the Strada del Vino Costa degli Etruschi, which runs south from Livorno to Piombino and across to the island of Elba, edged by searing-blue water and with views to sigh over.

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