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...Charlie Williams of Athena Advisers, an estate agency that sells across the French Alps, says the savings can be significant....
...“Country properties with land and fast broadband are most in demand,” says Graham Downie, managing director — especially in Brittany, Normandy and the Loire....
...William Dalrymple Borobudur, Java My travel discovery of the year was unquestionably Borobudur in Java, the largest and most spectacular Buddhist temple in the world....
...In 1998, the writer William Boyd invented an artist called Nat Tate, writing a pseudo-biography for “an American artist” alive between 1928 and 1960....
...As I drove into town, familiar British surnames — Osborne, Croft, Williams & Humbert, Harveys — announced themselves from the sides of white-painted warehouses with yellow trim....
...James and Brittany Underwood are in a similar situation. The Fort Myers couple, with a 10-month-old and plans for another child, were at the limit of their space....
...When William Morris first sat down at the tapestry loom in his bedroom at Oxfordshire’s Kelmscott Manor in 1877 to engage in what he called “the noblest of the weaving arts”, he found inspiration in the...
...(FT) . . . even in safer spots Brittany in western France has few coronavirus deaths but still fears the business and social impact of the pandemic....
...Still a teenager, he moved from Rennes to Paris, trailed Gaugin and his circle back to his own native Brittany, and started making imitative woodcuts....
...William & Son, williamandson.com....
...The process was accelerated after the sinking of the tanker Erika off the coast of Brittany in 1999, an accident that was considered one of France’s worst environmental disasters....
...Search for Shirley Muldowney, Erica Enders-Stevens, Alexis DeJoria, Angelle Sampey, and sisters Ashley, Courtney, and Brittany Force on the internet....
.... £1,250; connollyengland.com And the best one I’ve received recently is an oversized mariner’s T-shirt with blue-black stripes that my friend gave to me in Brittany....
...Williams works hard to give new life to old craft....
...“They drove through Brittany to the end of the earth, to Finistère....
...Patisserie is ground zero for the city’s obsession with Kouign-amann, a rich pastry from Brittany....
...Consider, for instance, his delight and awe when he tells of bringing the manuscript to Canterbury Cathedral for the enthronement of Archbishop Rowan Williams in 2003....
...Brittany Harrer used to work as personal assistant to a philanthropist before setting up The Pocketbook Agency in West Hollywood....
...Georg Friedrich Handel, born in Germany, is one of Britain’s favourite composers, while William Shakespeare has inspired generations of writers across Europe....
...When she first met the entrepreneur in 1989, shortly after he had listed his Brittany-based timber business, she was struck by his “incisive eyes, his presence”....
...FirstGroup’s take on the classic rail journey from London to Fort William has been more Brittany Ferries than Orient Express. Serco has not only agreed to part-finance new trains....
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor ——————————————- Details Brittany Ferries’ Portsmouth to Santander services take 24 hours, and cost from £948 return for a car and family of four, including en...
...Fidèle was a black-and-white dog from Brittany. She sent “letters” to Barnes in French, signed with her paw-mark....
...The collection he most admires is the William Burrell in Glasgow – in 1944, shipping magnate and philanthropist Sir William Burrell donated to the city of Glasgow more than 6,000 treasures, from antiquitiy...
...Before Brittany Scopa enrolled at William and Mary’s Mason School of Business, Virginia, she had a good career in marketing, a supportive family and many helpful and smart co-workers....
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