Hints and tips:
...Fearing a scandal, Long sends Val off on her trail and a mystery slowly plays out in the style of a Raymond Chandler thriller....
...Using local labour, James planted thousands of orchids in a nine-hectare ravine with a cascading mountain stream. Fifteen years later, a freak snowstorm killed the lot....
...He enjoys being able to ski on the nearby mountains, driving to Italy or Austria on a whim, and even going to the beach in Croatia....
...Abercairny, the estate that hosts our party, is a place for peering over glens, thinking pure thoughts and making mincemeat of small mountains. It is also a little humbling....
...A 1585 watercolour describes the recent founding of Potosí, Bolivia, and its silver mines, against a mountain background with llamas and herders....
...Li’s 1990 memoir, Moving the Mountain, describes the tumultuous events of his early life in China....
...He is wearing a pale pink V-neck jumper under a suit, with a Burberry scarf and a large watch....
...The industry is still only at the foot of the accessibility mountain, but its attitudes are certainly changing, which is a valuable start....
...Located in Pollensa, in the foothills of the Serra de Tramuntana mountains, the villa provides a perfect base for runs and cycle rides....
...Shooting estates say they are being unfairly targeted over suspicions of involvement in the illegal killing of birds of prey and over the legal but controversial large-scale culling of mountain hares....
...Eric Pettit, designer of Serenity Estate in Whistler, Canada, says he tackled this problem by taking advantage of the fact that the angle of the sun is lower during the winter....
...Only Hong Kong is more at risk in the 20 cities analysed in its Real Estate Bubble Index....
...Three or four years ago, the market was dead,” says Janis Fedorovskis, director of the Benidorm office of the Engel & Völkers estate agency....
...There is Paisley galore (including a costume from the Star Wars franchise) and beautiful architectural drawings spanning Georgian neoclassical to brutal Gorbals estates....
...E&V is selling a two-bedroom restored villa with terrace near Corso Umberto for €580,000....
...E&V is marketing a four-bedroom villa with sea views for €3.95m....
...The night of the Holland v Spain World Cup final in 2010, Karim El Ahmadi sat on a café terrace in his hometown Enschede dressed in orange, cheering on his fellow Dutchmen....
...AIG’s connection with Stowe dates back to the 1940s, when company founder Cornelius V Starr was a frequent visitor....
...Moonglow, by Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, RRP£18.99/Harper, RRP$28.99, 448 pages Ken Kalfus is author of ‘Coup de Foudre’ (Bloomsbury) Illustration by Dan Mitchell...
...Knight Frank is marketing a penthouse duplex in a gated community with 24-hour security at the V&A Waterfront Marina for R84.9m. The four-bedroom apartment has a pool and views of Table Mountain....
...Tim Simmons of Humberts, the estate agency selling the house in 2012, describes it as “a beautiful property on a great plot and a fabulous concept”....
...Santa Cruz picks ● Mount Eden Chardonnay 2009, 2010 ● Mount Eden, Estate Pinot Noir 2005 ● Mount Eden, Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 ● Rhys, Horseshoe Vineyard Chardonnay 2012 ● Rhys, Home Vineyard...
...After all, it’s the structure of the economy that really counts, and it’s v much the structure that is necessitating certain levels of growth....
...So what is to be done with the mountains of redundant transparencies that loiter in studios across the land?...
...Since his first novel, V, came out in 1963, when he was 26, Thomas Pynchon has written two kinds of book....
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