Hints and tips:
...More succession news: Bob Sternfels failed to win the support of a majority of McKinsey’s senior partners for another term at the helm of the consulting firm in the second round of its leadership ballot....
...Tepid demand from broadcasters in the latest round of rights auctions, uncertainty about Fifa’s agents rules, and the Premier League’s recent embrace of spending rule enforcement may all be having an effect...
...Camps include the shores of a glacial lake, and the edge of the Russell Glacier....
...Here you get to soak up the drama of clay-stove and charcoal-grill cooking taking place at the aduppu, the traditional hearth modelled on Sri Lankan-village kitchens....
...Performances from Emeli Sandé, Grace Jones, Candi Staton and Thundercat, combined with camping on the grounds of a 16th-century estate in the Sussex village of Glynde, make this a particularly appealing...
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...through Silver Lake seems to have a vendor every 10 paces....
...The area boasts perfect orange limestone to accompany its year-round Mediterranean sunshine....
...has on display finds from the monastery of Bhamala, a few miles to the west, high above the waters of the Khanpur Lake....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...Fighting Cocks sits on the edge of Verulamium Park, an area of lakes and parkland on the site of one of the most important towns in Roman Britain....
...Skjolden today looks pretty much as it did in 1913, save for the village’s only hotel, a later arrival, where I stayed in a room with spectacular views down the V-shaped valley of Lustrafjord....
...Round corners and between trees we go. We speed out over a frozen lake. I am a child again, lost in Jack London’s White Fang. When we pause Kim cooks moose kebab on an open fire....
...Hotel Le Flaine, the most dramatic of the lot, juts out over a clifftop, its cantilevered edge of cast concrete dominating the slopes below. A traditional Alpine village of log chalets Flaine is not....
...in barrels in the roof of the co-op in the village of Maury in the Agly valley....
...the Lake District that I’d been wanting to visit for years....
...Of course, the lakes are cold but there are also geothermal springs around Pucón, considered the area’s gateway city....
...on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&A museum....
...At lower altitudes were villages with small fields of beans and corn, cows in tiny walled pastures and sheep tethered beside the track....
...Even Al Capone is rumoured to have owned a string of properties in the area. Fast forward to 2008, when the US automotive industry collapsed....
...Piloting a large state-of-the-art cruiser past the crowds outside waterside pubs in the pretty Norfolk village of Horning, I look down at the smaller, less expensive boats nearby and experience a sensation...
...At Swaffham Bulbeck, a village in Cambridgeshire, John Grange, who was reported to have got drunk and laughed at the “round heads”, had his house burnt down the next morning for his temerity....
...Although much of Hollywood descends in winter for the annual Sundance Film Festival, the city of about 7,500 permanent residents retains much of its alpine village character....
...Amazingly, this windy two-street village on the edge of the map has its own boutique hotel....
...Rust: The Longest War, by Jonathan Waldman, Simon & Schuster, RRP£16.99 / $26.95 Rust is on the margins of science writing but I include it in my round-up because it is so entertaining....
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