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...I discovered the word fajã on my first visit to the Azores 21 years ago, when I was seven months’ pregnant. Then my ocean trips were limited....
...Right now, I can see a squad of tourists queuing to get coffee at Café de Flore (thanks, Emily in Paris). Next door, Brasserie Lipp is serving steaks and dauphinois in its fabulously grumpy style....
...I’ve yet to eat in the hotel’s two-Michelin-star Flore restaurant, but I very much enjoyed dinner in its Brasserie Marie, which is popular with locals, thanks to its reasonably priced menu (hors d’oeuvres...
...(Or perhaps just emotion; personally I’ve never felt moved by a shirt.) Blouses are the shirt’s dreamier cousin....
...‘Object’, 1936, by Meret Oppenheim (Room 517) On a mythic afternoon in 1936, Picasso and his paramour, the artist Dora Maar, were having drinks with Oppenheim at the Café de Flore when they admired her...
...“I don’t see what benefit this government has given me . . . what benefit I have, I’ve given them,” he said. He said Mexican government contracts were a small part of his business....
...“With better financial literacy I think there’d be less poverty,” Flores said. “Managing spending and resources is a sure-fire way to succeed.”...
...Which is excellent, as long as your preferences are the “Menu en 6 notes — Végétal — €121” or the “Menu en 6 notes — Faune & Flore — €143”....
...We do a trip once a year for a month to places like Easter Island, Tibet, Victoria Falls, the Atacama Desert… Last year we were with the Komodo dragons and whale sharks in the Flores Islands....
...Don’t ask an Angolan person how they got into kizomba; Mosquito laughs when I do. “It’s not so much getting into the music. I came out of the music....
...I live in Saint-Germain, opposite Café de Flore, so I often sit there, even when it’s freezing, to watch the people passing by....
...“If there is one thing I know, it’s how to make order,” he says, “so I knew right away what I needed to do.”...
...Bedding is thick and plush, pillows come in the thousands and I liked the toiletries from local brand Codage so much that I took my leftovers home....
...He would eventually discover the bohemian Left Bank, where he would frequent the likes of Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, mix with French intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre,...
...I can go down those streets and no one says to me ‘Show me your ID’ and ‘Where are you going?’”...
...“Once I’ve won the primaries, we’ll then consider when and who would participate in the negotiation. It would definitively be a new negotiation, with new leadership,” she said....
...“Whether [decoupling] is an imperative or not, I don’t know. The prudent thing to do is to look for ways to de-risk your own supply chain and increase your competitiveness simultaneously....
...“We receive between 800 and 1,000 people a day, today, every day, I don’t know how many there are, I can’t get my head around counting, it’s incredible,” said Cristina Coronado Flores, who runs the migrants...
...“I have paid people to be here when I am not.”...
...“In order to be a great old wine a wine needs to have been a great young one first,” González Byass cellar master Antonio Flores told me as I dipped a venencia — a pipe-shaped instrument for extracting wine...
...“I simply always did what I felt like doing, anything else wouldn’t agree with the way I work. Committing to a particular style would’ve bored me to death,” she explained....
...I am a regular at Café de Flore, and although it is touristy, it is still very Parisian – though we locals like to sit inside, not on the terrace....
...“I started Rise based on the belief that our nation must address the scourge of racism directly to achieve true unity,” he said at the time....
...“Biden might well emerge feeling better and say ‘I’m hanging in there’.”...
...When asked for the wine list, Sylvain Orel, an incredibly knowledgeable sommelier, simply replies “I am the list.” I go for a glass of Philippe Viret from the Rhône Valley....
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