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...Average temperatures in Alpine regions have risen almost 2C from pre-industrial levels, the Research Center for Alpine Ecosystems estimated, well above the long-term global figure of at least 1.1C....
...The new year is prime time for Aspen’s business owners such as Karin Derly, whose French Alpine Bistro is in the centre of the well-heeled Colorado resort....
...And we go to Westcombe Dairy’s cheese shop for its excellent cheddar and delicious Alpine-style cheese....
...Who Sotheby’s International Realty House, New Jersey, US, $25mn Where On a hilltop in Alpine, a small borough in Bergen County, New Jersey....
...Grozev goes for two starters — spätzle, an Alpine egg noodle, and peas and carrots. I choose salmon with black rice and another side of peas and carrots....
...It’s about 40 minutes by car to Eagle County regional airport, 2 hours to Denver international airport....
...There are two restaurants — Casa Luigi, located at the end of a bumpy lane on an alpine plateau, and Le Felci, set in a former stables closer to the lodges, serving mushrooms, greens and herbs foraged from...
...Nonetheless, the lush planting, including a collection of Bonsai trees, is magical, with water babbling over an alpine rockery he built in 2020....
...Latterly, a Studebaker Avanti with an incongruous Home-Counties-style badge-bar. Meanwhile, the real-life spy Kim Philby drove a grim Humber from the Ministry of Defence carpool....
...And the former estate manager’s house, situated on the seashore and backing on to the Alpine walled garden, has been turned into an exclusive private rental, brought to life with lovingly refurbished features...
...Her husband booked us a night at a hotel three hours north of the city, so we planned a road trip stopping at Sea Ranch in Sonoma County....
...The median sale price in town is $2.7m, and $3.8m in Mountain Village, an Alpine-style enclave built in 1985....
...Morbegno lies in the Valtellina Valley east of Lake Como and is celebrated for bitto, an aged Alpine cheese made from cow’s (sometimes goat’s) milk....
...The rural architecture of Valcea county and the Rococo-Baroque mansions and villas of the boyars, eastern European aristocrats, were chief sources of inspiration, says Grigore....
...The château, with gîtes and outbuildings, has a restaurant, a banqueting hall and a fitness centre, and may be run as a high-end Alpine destination....
...As if all that were not enough, American Dream is in New Jersey’s Bergen County, where trading regulations — known as “blue laws” — do not permit Sunday shopping....
...In the first half of the 20th century, this Alpine wilderness was the last station for those hoping to defeat tuberculosis. One of the pilgrims was my grandfather, Arthur Willoughby Falls Glenny....
...It is clear that for many of the producers present, the tasting is a busman’s holiday, with elements of the county fair thrown in....
...Now South Korea is once again preparing for the global spotlight, with the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics this Friday in the nation’s alpine Pyeongchang county....
...St Bartholomew This sweet, nutty cheese looks and tastes like an Alpine fromage but is actually made at much lower altitudes in bucolic Oxfordshire....
...Buying guide ● For domestic flights, Eagle County airport is a 40-minute drive to the west of Vail....
...Mohe, the northernmost county in China, is remote and inhospitable, its vast forests home to bears and wolves. In winter, temperatures regularly drop below minus 50C....
...● Rhys, Skyline Pinot Noir 2012 ● Rhys, Alpine Pinot Noir 2012 ● Rhys, Horseshoe Pinot Noir 2012 ● Rhys, Alpine Hillside Pinot Noir 2013 ● Rhys, Horseshoe Hillside Pinot Noir 2013 ● Ridge Vineyards...
...Leap describes it as “new alpine accommodation”....
...If the Winter Olympics at least bring proper investment in alpine emergency services, then most people I know will consider the Games a success....
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