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...Villa, Cascais, €13mn Where In the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, to the west of Cascais town. The beach is about 15 minutes’ drive, and Lisbon can be reached in 45 minutes....
...He pulls over in front of a large structure with three grey gates. Behind the central gate are a pool and a villa....
...What A five-bedroom contemporary villa on the edge of a small sandy beach called Cuccureddus....
...Why The property includes an uninhabited island, which is accessed by a land bridge above a small beach....
...Usyk is on a rest day when I arrive at his training camp in a deserted Spanish beach town south of Valencia. Normally, the doors to the 10-bedroom villa would not be open to a journalist....
...(There’s also a two-bedroom family villa, with a small pool.)...
...Why The large terraces at the front of the property look out on to the pool, large garden space and the coastal views beyond....
...As the road continues north towards Klampenborg, the coastal villas get fancier and fancier, and I start daydreaming about which one I’d most like to live in....
...A little too superb, on reflection — set on its own private sandy cove, with Art Deco contours and generous proportions mirroring those of the 19th-century villas threaded through the elegant harbour town...
...What A seven-bedroom, six-bathroom air-conditioned villa with about 1,265 sq m of interior living space and almost 6ha of land....
...“The beach is a 30-minute walk. Yesterday I went for a run and swam in the sea,” says Anaïs, 29, who declined to give her surname....
...A late September sun is still rising above the bay of Villefranche on the French Riviera, bathing the palatial villas and surrounding pines in a golden light. The water itself barely ripples....
...Why The front of the villa has floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the infinity pool and the Aegean Sea beyond....
...once lived in by Keith Richards. 19-69 Villa Nellcôte, £155 for 100ml; goodhoodstore.com....
...Trisara’s private beach is directly in front of the house, and owners have access to the resort’s leisure facilities....
...It was surreal to be staying at San Domenico Palace — the front desk! The porcelain busts!...
..., sun-saturated position and a smooth pebble, as opposed to rocky, beach....
...That job was a villa outside Rome, and it was really more of a palace....
...I had even begun to enjoy the journey, now that we had got over the Rwandan border into Burundi, had entered lush rainforest, and were making good progress towards our beach retreat....
...From the front — only 125 metres from the beach — serried rows of glass balconies glint in the sun, each six-storey block slightly different to its neighbour....
...GoldenEye is a mix of private lagoon-front villas, a hamlet of beach huts and a cluster of cottages – with room for close to 50 scattered amid the lush green plant life....
...Marianna Giusti We were beach kids because we come from the coast. So you never think whatever your parents do is cool....
...Sydney, with its rich, freighted First Nations history — a topic lately very front and centre in the Australian discourse — all but required art to be part of the storytelling remit....
...He describes mornings waking the children early and walking across the secluded beach in front of their house “to swim out to the rock opposite and watch the dolphins” before canoeing to the local café to...
...It was there that she first met the ceramicist Benoît Astier de Villatte, who himself had lived at Villa Medici as a child....
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