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...The long ribbon of creamy-white sand is soft, bordered by a dense fringe of palms....
...With Dido paddling silently at the helm of a wide canoe, we slipped into a creek pushing deep into the forest behind the riverbank....
...Next up is the Regent Shanghai on the Bund, a new 15-storey tower on the site of what was the Shanghai International Seamen’s Club and Seagull Hotel, where the Huangpu river meets Suzhou Creek....
...Above me the universe is aflame with stars, ahead of me the road snakes north. I start to grin....
...The coast is still one of Italy’s great beauties, with unrivalled panoramas linked by an acrobatic road....
...Indian Creek Forget Millionaires’ Row: tiny, private, high-security Indian Creek Island is known as “Billionaire Bunker”....
...With the moon high in the sky, I lay awake reading Tanizaki in bed, looking out through a mesh screen towards the riverine creek....
...The futuristic, rocket-shaped Dubai Creek Tower will be a “notch” higher than the Burj Khalifa, the current holder of that title, just down the road....
...Forget Miami’s celebrity hotspots or the old money opulence of Palm Beach....
...The new part of the city, the great sprawling forest of towers and roads south and west of the Creek, site of the original trading and pearling settlement, is the cleanest place I’ve ever seen....
...The roads are clearer now, thanks to the financial crisis and a new metro, but the focus of deluxe Dubai has shifted from the trade and commercial centre of the creek to more fashionable areas around the...
...At the end of the beach and on the mouth of the creek – in a prime position where a boutique hotel would stand if we were in any other part of the world – is a spectacularly sited police post....
...The island is 35 minutes from Nassau and an hour from Palm Beach....
...What: A five-bedroom, six-bathroom family residence situated on Wappinger Creek within 142 acres (57ha)....
...Pengegon, Lanteglos-by-Fowey, Cornwall, UK, £2.5m ► Where: On the banks of Pont Pill, half a mile by boat up a creek opposite Fowey....
...Old Dubai” evokes the bustling area around the Creek, where the Gulf emirate’s commercial tradition began, with dhows plying their trade with eastern ports and merchants haggling in the souks....
...But the Road and Transport Authority says the Red line, which starts near Dubai’s international airport, tunnels underneath Dubai Creek and follows the coast to Jebel Ali, will be fully operational in the...
...The foliage on either side of the water is thick and lush, with oil palms peeping over the top of the tree line....
...Palm Desert: 72885 Highway 111 Cathedral City: Date Palm Dr & 30th Ave Beaumont: Oak Valley Blvd & Beaumont Ave Calimesa: Calimesa & Myrtlewood Corona: Ontario & Rimpau Lake Elsinore: Lake & Mountain...
...The patches of grass near the road are yellowing and scrubby. Then an oasis appears. The grass becomes a lush green and an array of palm trees lines the roadside....
...“Now you watch the fun,” said my taxi driver gleefully as we approached Sheikh Zayed Road, the central artery of the city....
...At Cane Garden Bay, we anchored to a backdrop of lush palm trees with surfers riding the breakers towards the shore....
...Wild and craggy, there are deep gorges fed by plunging waterfalls, edged by pandanus palms and home to lurking crocodiles....
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