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...The next day brings with it lunch with the monks. I am taken along a passageway from the church to the refectory, a whitewashed L-shaped room with limited but tasteful religious decoration....
...In line with the hotel franchise’s Asian roots, it was blessed by Buddhist monks with wishes for prosperity. Feng shui principles guided design throughout the site....
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
...The scoreline “love” is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf for egg, which resembles a zero....
...Or a monk in a tower drawing some illuminated manuscripts....
...There I learnt how, in the 17th century, the monks introduced turkeys to the area and taught villagers how to rear them....
...She is Buddhist and these beads were given to her by her monk....
...Stay: in addition to its restaurant, L’Oliveraie, and its 700 hectares of scenic vineyards, Château Roslane has a 13-room hotel and small spa, so you can sip, dine, hammam, and sleep on the estate....
...In common with previous deals, the Cashmere purchase has been structured as a merger with Media Monks, S4’s main operating division, with no values attached....
...Benjamin and Monk talk animatedly and at cross purposes about 12-tone music and 12-bar blues. Beckett has another beer. Nignon produces the bécassines à l’eau de vie promptly....
....” £130 for 50ml EDP; aesop.com Claire Choisne, creative director of Boucheron“My perfume is L’Heure Bleue by Guerlain....
...“Maman, on t’a dit bonjour de l’Écosse.” Lunch does not normally feature prominently in my companion’s routine....
...Foodies flock to the buzzy gastropub and Michelin scene, mopping up Asian fare at HRiSHi in Windermere, or farm-to-fork food at Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume and the newish Henrock....
...His first purchase, in 1913, was Bartolomeo Cesi’s rapt, trompe l’oeil “A Carthusian Monk”, set as if in a niche....
...Last time I was there, I admired a 1950s Italian vase with a trompe-l’oeil necklace around it. 548 1/2 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
...The set ends with Barron, unaccompanied, merging the angles and vagaries of Thelonious Monk’s “Reflections” into the smoother contours of his own aesthetic....
...While most monks live on a simple diet, larger monasteries often have restaurants specialising in elaborate vegetarian dishes, many of which are cunningly designed to replicate the appearance, textures and...
...At the top of the staircase is the “Monument to Balzac”; clad in a fluid, abstracted monk’s robe, his features vigorously modelled, the writer surveys approaching visitors with a visionary stare....
...Each time the monks rebuilt it by hand....
...Instead of producing some sort of shiny high-tech, anti-ageing L’Oréal-ness for Roger&Gallet, the rebrand focused instead on a 300-year-old formula for a natural elixir created by monks — Aqua Mirabilis...
...L’Oréal counts China as its second-biggest market by sales....
...“L’età dell’oro,” he says softly, “Si, si, si.”...
...They converted a post-medieval four-storey building once owned by Sistercian monks into a 550 sq m museum in Mougins. The site could not be more appropriate....
...“I remember one spring morning being at Eglise Saint-Louis-en-l’Île amid a congregation of monks in immaculate white habits, the sunshine streaming through the windows and the scent of clean, burning incense...
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