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...Girona-Costa Brava airport is about 55 minutes by car; Barcelona is 130km, which takes about 1 hour 30 minutes....
...But while you’ll find plenty of high-rises in places like Lloret de Mar, the bays to the north remain unspoilt....
...From the get-go, news that Finca Cortesin – discreetly poised between Marbella and Sotogrande on Spain’s Costa del Sol – would be taking over one of the island’s best-loved lodgings had seemed an enticing...
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...“In other crises the industry made the mistake of reducing graduate intake dramatically, so when markets rebounded we didn’t have enough people and were missing entire generations,” said María Díaz del Río...
...It is not a secret, it will be based in a well-appointed office in the middle of the port city on Spain’s Costa del Sol, and it will directly feed and support teams of bankers working in established financial...
...Landing on the dark-red beaches of Isla Rábida is like setting foot on the Costa del Mars....
...Their popularity led to an invitation to play the evening DJ set at Café del Mar in 1991....
....” — Paul A Myers, Corona del Mar, California...
...of the Central Bank of Costa Rica....
...He has been scouting for villas in Mykonos, on the French Riviera and on Spain’s Costa del Sol....
...Once upon a 1950s and ’60s time, Americans were just discovering the towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo, quaint 18th-century fishing outposts....
...Current projects in Puerto Cancún include the 45-unit Punta del Mar which comes with a children’s club, the two 52-unit oceanfront Allure towers and the 134-unit Shark Tower (which also has six mansions)...
...The first is Playas del Coco, about 20km south-west of the airport and the largest town in Guanacaste....
...In an appeal for aid, residents of the town of San Mateo del Mar, some 50km from Juchitán, described the earthquake as “like being in the whirl of a huge liquidiser” and reported “innumerable” houses that...
...At the municipal Mercat del Lleó I bought anchovies from the port of L’Escala and pungent local cheeses....
...Nor syrupy concoctions from Starbucks and Costa. Nor soft drinks produced by boutique producers. Mars bars are fine. So are cakes....
...Especially vulnerable were shoddily built holiday resorts in areas such as the Costa del Sol, erected too fast and too cheaply as developers tried to make a quick buck....
...But it still attracts the likes of Lady Gaga, who took over its palatial Villa del Mar last summer. More than that, it retains a certain old-school glamour and a palpable charm....
...Chocolate-maker Mars International is spending $160m on its first plant in the country, while Kellogg, the US cereal maker, has invested $100m in the past 18 months....
...(FT) Costa Book Award shortlisted writers The winner of the overall £30,000 prize will be announced today....
...The recent $270m acquisition by Essilor of Costa Inc, which owns the sports sunglasses brand Costa del Mar, was the culmination of a remarkable and unlikely transformation of AT Cross, the 165-year-old US...
...For the first time since Spain fell into prolonged recession in 2008, the Eden Mar hotel in the southeast beach resort of Guardamar del Segura is fully booked for the Easter weekend and expanding its staff...
...… The Martian, by Andy Weir, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 The SF book of the year, Weir’s debut is a tense, unbearably gripping survival story about an astronaut stranded on Mars with only his wits, scientific...
...… The Martian, by Andy Weir, Del Rey, RRP£9.99/ Crown, RRP$24 Stranded on Mars, an astronaut must figure how he is to survive for four years before rescue comes....
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