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...French families have been drawn to the less showy ski resorts south of Grenoble, but in recent years an increasing number of overseas buyers have followed suit, lured by the promise of good snowfall, more sunshine...
...If you want a modern country house, I’d suggest The Find, designed by my architect friend Richard Found....
...The next morning, I find my bearings in bright sunshine. Holmen Lofoten’s decor is simple, unpretentious....
...Devauges and I walk up through the vines in the sunshine, past almond, walnut and cherry trees. A dog barks down in the village; a cock crows; there’s a peal of church bells....
...“I was up all night worrying I’d make my customers sick — you can’t run a business like that.” As another summer without power loomed, Hashem had had enough....
...“People told me I was crazy, that we’d never be able to attract the foot traffic we’d need....
...Coronation bunting was still hanging in village windows. The green fields and blowsy hawthorn blossoms were dip-dyed in a kind of hyper-real sunshine....
...They’d always loved the light in Provence, and favoured the Mediterranean over the Atlantic where Isabelle’s childhood holidays were spent....
...“Jacques says there is no -ism in this architecture, no one style,” says Simon Cloutier, a protégé of Labro who now runs the Atelier d’Architecture d’Avoriaz....
...Existence is an accumulation of suffering and pain in which you have to find the moments of sunshine. This is why a novel must be better than life....
...Still, that was only a minor ray of sunshine in a poor August. The digital asset market had a 12 per cent decline in assets under management last month, to $29.7bn....
...He’d discovered a new trail — four days and 40 miles up a remote southern valley. We’d stay with villagers....
...Somewhere in the middle was the peak I’d conquered the previous afternoon....
...Ramping up fusion R&D should not distract from the need to improve the proven nuclear fission technology that powers existing power stations, particularly by introducing a new generation of small modular...
...Henri Giscard d’Estaing, son of former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, joined the company in 1997 and has overseen the upmarket shift (he remains the company’s president)....
...Offering good value compared to the neighbouring Côte d’Azur, the region also benefits from recent tax changes working in favour of second-home owners....
...Now imagine that final run is hundreds of metres of perfect, thigh-deep powder, the surface sparkling in the sunshine and never skied before....
...It occurred to me when I got there that this car park was the largest piece of flat land I’d seen since leaving Locarno....
...From Poughkeepsie (pronounced “Puh-kip-see”) we made a thoroughly worthwhile detour to Franklin D Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate....
...How the river glistened in the morning sunshine! How wonderful to be alive and free and on holiday!...
...Shortly after D-Day he told her she should help with washing up and other chores “proper to women”....
...Village Roadshow, an indie distributor that has financed movies including Joker, is also exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter....
...My church visits follow a familiar pattern: the heavy clunk of an iron latch, stepping out of May sunshine into the ice-house coolness of the interior, eyes calibrating to darkness....
...A veteran of the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy recalled returning to France 50 years later, as an old man....
...When we were young, we would disappear into the woods, never quite keeping to the route we’d promised our mother....
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