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Show I'aue C I2 TMK DAILY IIKKALD, I'nno, Hah. Sunda. Kibruary II, 19 Valemtimie's Day By GERRY VOLGENAU One thing is guaranteed. The right place is almost always some place else. In "Casablanca." Rick and llsa agreed. "We'll always have Paris." In "Sleepless in Seattle," it was the Empire State Building. In "North by Northwest" it was a plush Pullman car somewhere in middle America. Newspapers Knighl-Ridd- Ah, romance. Generation X seems to mistrust it. The boomers may have lost it somewhere between tree love in the '60s and junk bonding in the '80s. Day in Hut with Valentine's best spem m a romance location the titling, some of us still You disagree? You think your living room couch is the world's most romantic place? I don't think so. believe. It must be pointed out. however, that Valentine's Day has as little to do with romance as New Year's Eve has to do with a good time. Too much talk; not enough action. But never mind. Any time is the right time. But what is the right place? The truth is: Some places just ooze with romance. A rity apartment with a view of the Manhattan skyline. A room d overlooking a beach. A ski chalet near Aspen, palm-studde- Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains among other things. 5. The Phoenician in Scotts-dalAriz., where love comes with a golf course. 6. Hotel del Coronado, location of the film "Some Like It Hot," is a hotel in the grand style on a peninsula just south of San Diego, Calif. 7. Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City is tres French, and each room has a superb view of the St. Now we're talking. Recently Harlequin, the leading publisher of romance novels, asked 100 travel agents to choose North America's 10 most sensual places. Here's their list, in order. 1. Chateau Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies, with a stunning view of Lake Louise and the Victoria Glacier. 2. Las Brisas in the tropical bliss of Acapulco, with canopied beds and total privacy. 3. The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, where you leave your heart in Old World elegance and hills. the 4. Mount Airy Lodge, where newlyweds come for vistas of e. Lawrence River. 8. Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colo., where the glitterati gather to see and be seen in the 19th Century glamour of silver mining days. 9. The Plaza, the elegant Gore-Tex-cl- fog-drap- queen of New York City on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. 10. The Bel Air in Los Angeles, a getaway with trees, softly babbling brooks and gliding swans. You may want to keep this list and, in coming years, take your honey to each one of them. But I say, Phooey. What makes travel agents such red-hexperts on romance? What do you think? I figure you know as much about romance as they do. Probably more. And I'd like to hear what you think is the most romantic, most sensual place. It may be an elegant hotel in ot Paris, a B&B on Cape Cod, a park bench overlooking the Detroit River, or the back of a Chevy pickup. 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