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...I thought I’d be waiting for 30 minutes. I was in my room in five. Rooms The Park Hyatt’s rooms are spacious by European standards....
...June 15; further information and tickets here ‘Nijinski’, Opernhaus Zurich With Debussy’s “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” and Chopin’s two piano concertos providing the musical framework, Marco Goecke...
...Website; Directions Bürkliplatz Bürkliplatz, 8001 Zürich More of an antiques than flea market, but also with a great range of goods, from vintage clothing to objets d’art, old watches and esoteric collectibles...
From Tel Aviv to Texas, via Sydney and San Francisco, you share your top spots for an open-air dip in the city
...There’s an excellent selection of international newspapers and magazines, as you’d expect (and, naturally, an ample stock of FTs)....
...I harbour a slight grudge for having once been turned away by the maître d’ at Neumarkt — a restaurant that styles itself as a bistro — because I had the audacity to turn up for lunch at 1.50pm....
...As someone who benefits from the cap, I’d be absolutely willing to see it eliminated in the interest of protecting the system as a whole. Constance Miner Washington, DC, US...
...It peaked in 2022 with 599 shows — meaning you’d have to watch 1.6 series a day to see all of them....
Your most beloved urban running routes, from Athens to Zurich
...For many designers, harvesting in the wild delivers windswept, naturalistic forms they’d never find in a flower market....
...The Bahamas team’s war room moved to a nearby villa, where Constance Wang lived....
...According to the mid-century florist Constance Spry, by midday on the date of your party you should have turned “the contents of two tins of turtle soup into a pan”, added a glassful of dry sherry and left...
...July 14-September 9, bbc.co.uk/proms Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria This summer Lake Constance’s famous floating stage plays host to a rare production of Verdi’s 1844 opera Ernani, directed by Lotte de...
...Including the controversial practice that some people simply filter everything they’re CC’d on to a separate folder that they don’t necessarily read....
...Compare, if you can, downsizing to staging an exhibition of your life: “Ask yourself what you’d put in it. What do you love? What’s your history?”...
...By the time he’d travelled back from London to the family home in Stratford-upon-Avon, his 11-year-old son Hamnet was dead, a victim most probably of bubonic plague....
...Her father, who finds it simpler “just to pretend she’d never existed, a fairy tale to be forgotten by adulthood”, has always refused to divulge the circumstances surrounding the abandonment....
...I’d never tire of these,” he says, gesturing at a leftover lichen branch. “But I wouldn’t want to see them in January.”...
...Name one thing you’d most like to change next year? I’d like men to stop being defensive in conversations about equality or sexual harassment. Defensiveness makes the conversation about you....
...Steve Horrell is executive chef of Roth Bar & Grill, Bruton, Somerset; rothbarandgrill.co.uk Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...The accessory I’m eyeing next is a vintage edition of the little Constance bag from Hermès. I am very specific in my tastes and I want one in navy-blue canvas, edged in tan leather....
...The west gets xenophobe’d right back....
...Wego, wego.jp The people I rely on for personal grooming and wellbeing are the staff at Buchinger Wilhelmi, near Lake Constance in Germany, where I go to fast....
...One task involved serving a Sauternes when there was only the dry wine from Château d’Yquem (strictly a Bordeaux, not a Sauternes) and a South African sweet wine, Vin de Constance, available....
...Put simply: they would only charge concentration-camp guard A if they could prove that A had helped murder prisoners B, C and D on a certain date in a certain place....
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