Hints and tips:
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...Highlights will include the beloved “Starry Night over the Rhône” and “The Yellow House”....
...Last year, Taillevent’s owners hired chef David Bizet from the Four Seasons’ George V to reinvent and modernise the menu....
...closes ranks over Xavier Rolet (FT) LSE Group: barrel out the Rolet (FT Lex) LSE seeks to end the battle for the board (FT) Rolet quits as London Stock Exchange chief after power struggle (FT) The AT&T v...
...At the same time, HBC took a $500m investment from Rhone Capital for a fifth of the company....
...French fans wear fancy dress during the France v Republic of Ireland match at the Stade de Lyon, Lyon, France...
...Back then, New World v Old World was a big preoccupation, with California the first successful representative of the former, thanks to the seminal Judgment of Paris taste-off in 1976, which pitted California...
...beside the Rhone....
...Two years later, a 5km strip of urban expressway on the Rhône riverbank was returned to pedestrian and bicycle traffic....
...Visiting the British team the day before their performance was like meeting the Saturn V crew in the dressing room....
...So my blind tastings these days are round the dinner table with good friends – and once a year when I act as a judge, with Hugh Johnson, in the Oxford v Cambridge wine-tasting competition....
...The crews in this weekend’s Boat Race may suffer nerves, then exhilaration or depression, but almost certainly no more so than the participants in another Oxford v Cambridge needle match: the 58th Varsity...
...epitomised during this World Cup when the England team were hurried out of a venue at which they were to play the following weekend so that a press conference could be held to publicise the New South Wales v...
...One can only hope it travels to London’s V&A or the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in New York. Lacroix is often in Arles; he has a home here....
...V isitors to the US arrive clutching driving licences as tightly as passports, since viewing the land of the free usually means handcuffing oneself to a steering wheel first. Many relish this prospect....
...A £400 Christmas hamper has been created to celebrate V&C's 70th anniversary this year....
...Today's equivalent, the Gulfstream V with its television sets and gold taps in the bathrooms, is considerably more at £26m....
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