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...retreat that is still, essentially, a collection of beach cottages....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...The Blossom plates (from €72) were produced by artisans in Umbria, whom she discovered between lockdowns when visiting friends Alessio and Carlotta Carabba Tettamanti at their rustic holiday cottages near...
...That water has been used to great effect at one of my favourite hotels in Morocco, L’Ma Lodge, in the centre of the palm grove....
...Arte E Moda di Cristea Florin & C, +390565-763 694....
...Stone-walled terraces of olive groves, almonds and vines were perfectly tended....
...There are seven bedrooms, a drawing room with trompe-l’oeil and gilded cornicing, a billiards room and an indoor pool. To the rear of the house is a self-contained cottage....
...He should have visited Cat Head blues shop, where the owner would have directed him to the homes of Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, Rev C L Franklin and others....
...set among coconut groves and on coral sand beaches — and one of the highest staff-to-guest ratios in the world (350 employees to 80 visitors)....
...The following day I explored the landscapes of Girona’s interior — patchwork squares of olive groves and vineyards stood beside cornfields, rice plantations, cork-oak forests and apple orchards....
...Today, the gardens include a cactus grove and a spectacular display of South African proteas, such as Leucospermum cordifolium Scarlet Ribbon....
...C London, 23-25 Davies Street (020-7399 0500; www.crestaurant.co.uk). George, 87-88 Mount Street (020-7491 4433; www.georgeclub.com)....
...The show opens with one of Kapoor’s most popular works, the highly polished reflective steel wall “C-Curve”, which circles back on itself like the letter C....
...The five-hectare site was covered with citrus groves and almond trees with views of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains....
...“Le style, c’est l’homme,” say the French. In which case director Michael Winterbottom is less a man than a multitasking movie mutant, with styles as plural as his projects....
...The French fancies and cream cakes, still baked daily on the premises, are a reliable source of calories and le café au lait “c’est bon”....
...olive plantation of Provençal France, are worldly expressions of the “sacred grove”....
...“The Sipp-approved investments are suites, not holiday lets, so they are therefore commercial property and allowable,” says Alan Reynolds, technical manager with L&C....
...But the general bemusement was caused less by the trompe l’oeil effect as by the use of a material usually forbidden in high-brow design circles: cardboard....
...There is also a shoot on the estate, which has landscaped gardens, a traditional stable block, three staff flats, two cottages and parkland....
...“There is a whole cottage industry of companies out there.” In the convention hall, reps from this “cottage industry” of new software houses bustle about. One of them is Vértice....
...(hat-tip Jason Groves – who also noticed Jim Hood’s £625 from Scottish Coal for “hours worked nil”) GUMMER, Rt. Hon....
...Weekends: Many local executives flee over spring and summer weekends to their lakeside “cottages” – “mansions” would often be a more appropriate description....
...still has Muriel Belcher presiding over the Colony Room, otherwise plain “Muriel’s”, and Gaston over the French Pub, you can lunch at Mario and Franco’s Trattoria Terrazza (“The Trat”), two can dine at L’...
...Here the camp appeal and family friendliness of the film (which is more important as a source here than L. Frank Baum’s book) are exploited to the full....
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