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...By the time he started writing Strandings, his research had got out of hand and, like Captain Ahab, Riley lost control. He began to fear the whales. He’d see them in dreams....
...We have already made five failed attempts to get back onto the ship’s dock and a call is being made to the captain to ask what to do....
...Few people know the story of Barcelona Femeni better than its captain....
...A year older than Alex, Francesco was popular and handsome and captain of the Mileto youth football team....
...“I understood it was probably a one-way ticket and there’d be no turning back.”...
...Getting fresh air and vitamin D was especially precious when we were cooped up most of the time throughout the week....
...In New Delhi, she’d stare out her classroom window, dreaming of flying the planes that soared past....
...Demob happy, you’d call it. Kennedy fills in the backstory. During the first world war, the East Lancashire Regiment was posted to northern France....
...“A friend called to ask if I’d be interested in something like this, and I said yes, but I was doubtful we’d get access,” JR says....
...Today, these grim facilities are hollow and silent, rusted the colour of ground cinnamon....
...“You’d lose all your staff, you’d lose a lot of your guests and the cost of the loss of sales for five years would have been horrendous.”...
...Staying at le Trait d’Union costs €94 per person per night, half-board....
...In 2007, Argentina’s then rugby captain Agustín Pichot told me he thought football had become a “fragile” sport....
...I’d love to visit some day. In-flight rest provisions, meanwhile, haven’t stopped improving, spurred on by advances in both sleep science and flight-time regulations....
...“It wouldn’t be surprising — it’s all that Captain Beefheart in the 1970s.”...
...There is also a pool and a pool house with cooking and dining facilities....
...Numerous campsites en route offer facilities and electric hookups, or you can wild camp....
...“Last time I went, there was a security alert — I’d been inside the shop so long they thought something terrible had happened to me.”...
...“The rows can be spectacular,” confides Captain L, a seasoned superyachting captain, speaking on strict condition of anonymity. More usually, though, it is the guests letting off the fireworks....
...to the cleaners…I’d go on there and just want to be liked and that’s pathetic.”...
...I’ve bought a stake in a facilities management company called Southerns, and it is going to be a fantastic business. I bought into a year ago; it turned over £9m....
...“We’d check in at B&Bs and the first thing we’d be given was a list of rules: don’t talk loudly after this time, don’t slam the door, you have to eat breakfast in this room . . . ” recalls O’Shea, with an...
...“It was like they’d arrived in heaven,” he says....
...He’d be surprised I still have most of my hair – my dad was pretty much bald! I think he’d be happy with what I have achieved. If you lost everything tomorrow, what would you do?...
...Why else would the word damned be spelt “d__ned” whenever it occurs; along with “b___er”, and “f___ing”?...
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