Hints and tips:
...Walking straight ahead from the French gardens, you’ll pass a large fountain with what looks like a big artichoke at the top (Fuente de Alcachofa), before reaching the boating lake....
...Almost exactly contemporary is Canaletto’s famous The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens, (c1751) where more earthy pleasures were enjoyed by men and women in pavilions, tents and promenades....
...This is a very grand hotel and yet you always feel that you are coming home. The hotel’s location at the lake end of the Bahnhofstrasse is excellent....
...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...As in parts of Yorkshire and the Lake District, daffodils still grow wild near Dymock and Newent in west Gloucestershire....
...square flat, which included at its back a rather grand four-poster bed....
...Lustig, whose clients included Nat King Cole, Julie Felix, Jethro Tull and Nico, clearly had an eye for talent, but he had picked the wrong man....
...Lamps cascade from trees, candles flicker in mid-air, abstract neon flowers sprout, the Temperate House is a fiery cathedral, LED lights skim the lake and multicoloured fountains illuminate the Palm House...
...March 7 to 10; further information here Performance ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’, Royal Opera House One of the most beloved ballets in the canon returns to Covent Garden, with Tchaikovsky’s music...
...June 15 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘Swan Lake’, Opéra Bastille Rudolf Nureyev’s 1984 interpretation of Swan Lake, for which the great set designer Ezio Frigerio created an enclosed space...
...Unlike the grand rocks in the Rosenblum collection, the meat-shaped stone inspires stomach rumbles rather than awe and wonder....
...It had nine bedrooms, a fruit and vegetable garden, a croquet green and a supply of pure spring water....
...beautiful botanic gardens....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Doubles at Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle, in the palace gardens, cost from €2,308 (airelles.com); or try the Waldorf Astoria Versailles (doubles from about €290; hilton.com)....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...Prix Pictet Human, 2023 is at the V&A’s Porter Gallery until October 22 Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...During their session, beside Wasing’s lake, fish appeared at the lake’s surface to listen....
...April 4 to 28; further information and tickets here ‘La bohème’ and ‘Swan Lake’, Arsht Center Florida Grand Opera presents Puccini’s portrait of bohemian Paris in the 19th-century....
...Combined with the latest Chequers probe, however, the show has fuelled interest into what precisely goes on in these grand buildings....
...It was recently voted “Germany’s most beautiful hike” for good reason; the views of lakes, waterfalls and architectural wonders are incredible....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
...Today Friedrich’s wanderer would find himself close to a nondescript village, overlooking lawns, garden sheds and a trampoline from Lidl....
...The Villa Wesendonck sits in a beautiful park above the lake, and today houses Zürich’s exquisite museum of non-European art....
...Transfer Market Saudi-backed LIV Golf has hired former Madison Square Garden executive Lawrence Burian as chief operating officer....
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