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...At the close of July, when I can stand it no longer, I climb into my car and head north from my home in Extremadura, traversing the dusty plains of Castile and the bleak mountains of León before arriving...
...Faemina from £4,570, faema.com Rhodri Marsden The e-bike converter My Dutch-style town bike hadn’t been ridden for about three years, but having transformed it into an e-bike using the Swytch kit (essentially...
...light of southern France — you notice the neo-Impressionist tints of Leiter’s images, his pinks and persimmons and bruised blood-reds, as well as a fragile mystery that echoes Bonnard or Japanese ukiyo-e...
...Even if your dog has chewed on your shoe, they say, they can fix it. 60 E 59th Street, New York, NY 10022; jimsshoerepair.com HM Kokos, London This Finchley shoe repair shop was started by a Greek family...
...One is reminded of E Nesbit stories or perhaps CS Lewis’s Narnia adventures: this is the land of dragons, after all....
...Baya Simons From E£60 (about £2.50) a year for Egyptians, E£330 (about £13.80) for non-Egyptians; bibalex.org Boston Athenæum, Boston Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenæum holds half a million volumes...
...When 14-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews’ best friend is killed by an accidental firearms discharge, Blue (as she is known) is blamed, and so she flees her small, dusty hometown, hoping to be reunited with her...
...Young Taliban fighters wearing scruffy high-top sneakers and white headbands inscribed with Koranic verses patrol the dusty Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the mountainous Khyber...
...The nearest thing to a ballad, “E.W. — Beautiful People”, is the album’s final track....
...The lyrics go: “We defeated the world/ They cut the people in half/ We defeated the world/ My dusty village, I sacrifice your dusty houses,/ I throw my plague to the palaces of Paris/We defeated the world...
...Today, the Chelsea headquarters of this world-renowned antiquarian dealer isn’t a “dusty old bookshop with some grumpy old man peering over his glasses”, jokes Harrington’s son Pom, now the owner, but a...
...The Jeep e-bike ridden by Tim Neville was provided by quietkat.com; Escape Adventures can rent bikes for the trail....
...At the dusty airport arrivals, a gaggle of other Brits, all with green holdalls, gathered around a pretty rep holding a Cricketer Holidays banner....
...Dast-e-saba — the hand of the morning breeze. Dasht-e-tanhai — the wasteland of solitude. Ku-e-dilfigaran — the street of the broken-hearted....
...What began in 1969 as a stall in Chelsea Antiques Market, run by Harrington’s father and uncle, has developed into a two-shop operation and a thriving e-store....
...E-Werk Luckenwalde, which opens on September 14, is very far from the cultural blockbuster of London’s Tate Modern or Shanghai’s Power Station....
...Mani Peninsula Pamela Goodman We parked just beyond the village of Stavri where the narrow lane peters out into a dusty turning circle almost at the cliff’s edge....
...I thought of them when I bought two Dior leather jackets, one in navy and one in dusty pink. I convinced myself it was a good “investment” as I will be passing them on to my daughters....
...Since July, though, e-visas can be arranged online. Those new trains are already speeding between Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, with Khiva due to be added to the network next year....
...Our helicopter flew low over the brown, dusty suburbs of Maun and then over the parched scrub beyond, heading north. “There it is,” said the pilot, pointing down to a fence running from east to west....
...Melancholic Venetian dandy Filippo de Pisis, with the nervous, flickering “Pesci e bottiglia” and “Chiesa di Cortina”, believed that “a poor dusty feather picked up from the street can become the spark for...
...They are the final resting place of several hundred people whose remains were found in a mass grave on Iraq’s dusty southern border and returned, decades later, to their home in Barzan in northern Kurdistan...
...The directive is handed down by Roger Swain (Richard E. Grant), a dusty bod from the Ministry of Information Film Unit....
...Barnes & Noble in the US had opened its first café and bookshops everywhere were becoming “less dusty, less academic, less intimidating and more accessible”, she says....
...From a dusty observation deck under 40-degree heat, construction manager Alan Lim surveys the site, dominated by six concrete towers jutting out of the desert....
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