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...His Cpac appearance capped four days of Trump-friendly elected officials and media talk show hosts, who filled the large resort hotel along the Potomac River with apocalyptic depictions of a country run...
...Northumberland, United Kingdom Alnmouth A postcard-pretty confluence of river estuary and North Sea, Alnmouth’s sandy beach is backed by low grassy dunes and a village dating back to the 12th century....
...My eyes trace a line of standing deadwood along the river: a trail of linear disease. To raise my spirits, I look up....
...Archie Byron’s tender bas-relief “Anatomy I” (1987), with limbs emerging as though from a sand dune, is made of sawdust and glue....
...When Byron and the Shelleys toured Switzerland in 1816 the ice was 200 metres above our heads. “Put on your crampons,” says Dominik. “We’re going to rope together. Step where I step.”...
...Later, in Port Byron, another historical marker solemnly informed us that a local man, Amos S King, “gifted a bible to Pres Abraham Lincoln in 1861....
...I’m escaping the summer crowds of Italy to Indonesia: holy rivers and dive boats, pristine coral in cerulean seas, a temple on every corner....
...One of the marbles — the river god Ilissos — was loaned out before, to Vladimir Putin, for display at St Petersburg’s Hermitage museum in 2014....
...towns (but with less of the conspicuous counter-culture posturing Byron has become notorious for)....
...Dozens of people remain stranded on the roofs of their houses with some buildings, including a historic town hall near Byron Bay, washed away entirely, according to reports....
...The town of 5,000 is set amid rolling hills alongside the Susquehanna river, near the Pennsylvania border. It is semi-rural but not obviously deprived....
...Since launching in 1999, OITF has thrown dinners in 19 countries around the world, everywhere from Mount Fuji to Byron Bay....
...Silt from the mainland rivers began to fill her canals, and malaria ravaged the population, who gradually shifted across the lagoon to Venice....
...Samphire Rottnest has solved that problem; with the backdrop of a nature reserve and views onto the eminently swimmable waters of Thomson Bay, its 80 rooms channel a bit of Byron and a bit of Bali, with...
...He inspired Lord Byron’s tragedy The Two Foscari and, in turn, Verdi’s opera I due Foscari....
...Byron called Venice “the greenest island of my imagination” — Austin is mine, and at least in greenness it wins....
...For more, see tourismwaiheke.co.nz 3 — Byron Shire, New South Wales Few places manifest that ineffable but highly desirable thing known as “Aussie lifestyle” more fabulously than Byron Shire, which sits...
...Meanwhile, The River Cafe retained its title as the most overpriced restaurant....
...Sitting next to me was Simon Byron, 36, my Botswanan guide....
...A land of glacial lakes and deep river gorges, where vertiginous peaks descend through pine forests to steel-blue water, the sliver of a state is squeezed into an area about the size of metropolitan Los...
...The park’s 1,500 acres became divided between Poland and Germany at the River Neisse, once part of the prince’s landscaped dreams....
...Meanwhile, keeping closer to shore is Lara Maiklem in Mudlarking (Bloomsbury, June), a history of London told through the objects she has found over 20 years of fossicking for the river’s detritus....
...In my one free hour, I went for a walk, turned a corner, and there it was: the mighty river. A man was washing his hair in it, and chickens were wandering in the shallows....
...An advertisement for “The Course of Empire” cited Byron’s glum prophecy: “There is the moral of all human tales; /’Tis but the same rehearsal of the past./ First freedom and then Glory — when that fails,...
...the albacore tuna from Mooloolaba on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast; the calamari were from Flinders, South Australia; while the spanner crab had been caught in Ballina, close to Byron Bay....
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