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...“And the guide price is generally a lot lower than what the owner is willing to accept, just to get buyers interested,” says 49-year-old Susan Brandrick, a midwife originally from Kent in the UK....
...This is where the cod are hung out to dry, their brittle tails as golden as caramelised sugar....
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Madrid The Prado, in Madrid, is one of the world’s mega-museums in the depth and richness of its collections....
...With the retro feel of an old-fashioned ranch house, Pousada Trijunção is an elegant rustic lodge, all salvaged wood and rich South American fabrics....
...After two hours of walking in the heat, the guides found the gorillas....
...It may not be golden, but at least I’ve caught a mahseer....
...Led by expert guide Prim Mlay, you’ll walk the mountains, covering up to 10 miles a day....
...Seanamphay Sayaphone (Mook), a guide who grew up in a nearby village, accompanies me to La Folie, a lodge on Don Daeng island with 26 river- or garden-facing wooden bungalows....
...Early risers can accompany a guide into the canyons that mark the bluffs miles inland; in Mandu Mandu Gorge, you might spot a tiny, shy, endangered black-footed rock wallaby....
...Most of those, however, stick to Reykjavík and the “Golden Circle” around the south-west of the country....
...Could any of our haul conceivably have belonged to Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, who used the priory as a hunting lodge?...
...I have a few golden memories: a pre-dawn walk up Poon Hill to see the sun’s first rays light up the summit of Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh-highest mountain....
...The hotel I’m staying at, an ex-masonic lodge in the centre of town, lists four churches in the “useful contact numbers” section of its guest information pack, right between taxis and emergency medical services...
...She takes me on a walk from my lodge. On the edge of the forest there are bursts of colour — red clover and ragged robin, the golden blaze of broom, blue wisps of viper’s bugloss....
...I tell Sandu that my guide had wanted me to ask how she could be a president for all Moldovans....
...Natural Selection brings the sustainability cred, but every one of the guides has been trained by Bousfield himself. From $695pp, naturalselection.travel @mariashollenbarger...
...On Skye, we stayed at the Skeabost Hotel, a white Victorian hunting lodge overlooking the sea loch. Poor Prince Charlie had to sleep in more caves....
...Explora has always been top of the game in these parts, as has Explora Torres del Paine, its lodge right at the edge of the Salto Chico waterfall that cascades into Lake Pehoé....
...They’ve also worked to identify First Nations-owned local operators and guides who can open up Country to their guests....
...After a pint in the Masonic lodge down the road, I return to the hotel lobby to find the exiled former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, checking in....
...Adept and entrepreneurial, the current Duke and Duchess have transformed their estate at Chatsworth into a thriving, multifaceted business: more than 600,000 visitors a year pour through the golden gates...
...The estate’s front lodge is a luxury sweetshop. You can sweep in the gates in a jeep, and spend your entire visit without getting your shoes dirty....
...Lofoten Ski Lodge, lofotenskilodge.com....
...Lunch was a Cornish pasty at Kynance Cove, where the high tide hid the golden beaches that draw huge crowds in summer....
...The Golden Week national holiday has provided a boost for China’s economic recovery....
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