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...I listened to Tom Petty as I climbed rolling golden hills and pine-covered mountains while trains ran in the distance....
...Stay: Nick’s Cove is on Tomales Bay, and one of the most atmospheric places to live out your NorCal fantasies....
...This month it bought the daily fantasy sport website Monkey Knife Fight and in November acquired the US sports betting platform Bet. Works....
...Everything encompassed in this view, including a line of hills far inland, belongs to Rancho Santana, a former cattle ranch acquired in 1997 by six investors from the Agora group of publishing companies...
...William Hill estimates potential sports betting revenues in the US could reach as much as $19bn by 2023....
...Our holiday fantasies of giving it all up and moving to Patagonia, which is what happens, I kept being told, if you taste the blueberry-like fruit of the calafate bush, were finally receding....
...A sense of mission permeates the ranch....
...“We have worked with News Ltd closely in Australia and built up a high degree of trust....
...Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor; Andrea Felsted is senior retail correspondent Portrait by Benjamin McMahon Photographs: Rex; Getty; PA images; Corbis...
...The views are marvellous: of the Vale of Evesham, the Malvern Hills and the Welsh Marches beyond....
...The North Ranch Country Club is like many golf clubs dotted around southern California....
...home in Agoura Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles....
...“One day Beverly Hills Cop crept into the list and George said (mock-sonorous voice), ‘Steven, you are charged with the responsibility of knocking Beverly Hills Cop from the top 10.’ ” The Indiana Jones...
...It’s early afternoon and the hills are flooded with glorious light. We are back to the subject of the raid....
...Emma Hill says the ad “plays on the romance and darkness of children’s fairytales, with mysterious creatures and the idea of travel, fantasy and beauty....
...Like his father, he was educated at Cranbrook, an Anglican boarding school in the affluent east Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill. A promising cricketer, he was never a gifted student....
...The bush stretches before us, empty of sound or visible movement for miles towards the distant hills. We are in heaven, or at least our heaven....
...By contrast their share prices are signalling the commodity boom is over and the supercycle merely a sell-side analyst’s fantasy....
...The fantasy and the facts: a grounded view of island life Island-life might seem like the ultimate fantasy, but the reality can be far more complex than simply arriving on-shore with a suit-case full of...
...Fantasy Shopper, an Exeter-based start-up which “socialises and gamifies” online shopping, raised $3m from Accel Partners and New Enterprise Associates....
...What: A ranch surrounded by mountains. Why: Free your inner cow-person by lassoing this 90-acre (36-ha) ranch....
...Very fine and velvety. 14% £31.95 Slurp.co.uk Snowden Vineyards, The Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 Napa Valley Made by Diana, daughter-in-law at Domaine Dujac in Burgundy....
...None was more in thrall to that fantasy than Royal Bank of Scotland, under Sir Fred Goodwin....
...andrew.hill@ft.com Minerva: louise.lucas@ft.com...
...After a round of meetings in and around Brentwood and Beverly Hills, I was back at the airport just after 5pm for my flight to Honolulu, and just managed to overhear one of the more bizarre exchanges I’ve...
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