1.   A busboy named Herb Brichto at the summer beach hotel told him about oxymorons and J. Alfred Prufrock.

2.   It was off-season in Barbados some years back, and the little beach hotel had only one guest, me.

3.   Many are now surrounded by condominium developments, shuttered most of the year, as well as by beach hotels and a plethora of recently built pizzerias.

4.   Several beach hotels have closed, and cable cars to Sugar Loaf Mountain and cog railroad trains up Corcovado Mountain now run half empty.

5.   Some beach hotels have closed entirely.

6.   The decor is typical budget beach hotel, but the balconies offer nice views of the water and of doings on the pier.

7.   The private eye has an inspiration, heads for a beach hotel in Ensenada, figures it all out and arrests the culprit.

8.   The rest of the year the beach hotels were boarded up and the old home town was left to us natives.

9.   Tourists at the solidly built beach hotels were generally unhurt by the lashing rains, with minor damage reported.

10.   Travellers at the solidly built beach hotels were generally unhurt by the lashing rains, with minor damage reported.