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...Costa Rica, where the company has just made a handful of large, casual-chic houses available, is one of the newest....
...The writer is an FT contributing editor In August at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the chair of the Federal Reserve usually takes a walk....
...But as a “New Zealander — and an outsider”, he initially chafed at the 90-year-old company’s precise way of doing things....
...Stay: For tradition’s sake book at The Grand Hotel in Oslo (grand.no, from about €295) where the suites bear names like Ibsen and Nobel, but inside it’s a contemporary showcase....
...After spending a night in Zinal, skiers tour to the Cabane de Mountet, set at 2,886m and encircled by the Zinalrothorn, Dent Blanche and Grand Cornier....
...February The new Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo More than two decades in the making, the immense Grand Egyptian Museum is expected to open by the end of February....
...A grand welcome in the Great Karoo Samara, in South Africa’s Great Karoo, is one of those places I’ve heard extolled far and wide, but never visited myself....
...Now, a music company runs a festival there in summer. Jankovich-Bésán is “very open”, Torma told me....
...I flew in via Oslo and, after two-nights in a hostel downtown, booked an overnight in a yurt — known here as a lavvu — with Tromsø Lapland, a Sámi-owned tour company....
...July 1-August 27, santafeopera.org Grand Teton Music Festival Nestled at the base of the Teton mountain range in Wyoming and within easy reach of Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Teton Music Festival...
...Choudhury has run the river operations for the Assam Bengal Navigation Company, which owns the Charaidew II, for the past 20 years. All the boat’s crew are hired from local communities....
...January 24; from €233; barcelo.com Sri Lanka The Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company first ventured into hospitality in 2005 when it launched Resplendent, the company behind Ceylon Tea Trails and Cape Weligama....
...So if you’re not valued highly enough for your company to pay your subscription, the next best thing is to cosy up to a banker or join a golf society for a round....
...With its patriarch’s grand throne closest to the fire, the home felt like a cross between an English medieval farmhouse and an old Swiss cow herder’s chalet....
...“When I ordered it, I was told that Prince Charles had bought the same design for Highgrove – only his is smaller,” says Nigel Metcalfe of the Victorian Grand Lodge he commissioned from glasshouse specialist...
...Like many grand old houses, its history is about upheaval: glamour, prestige, fortunes found and lost, years of dereliction. This mansion’s future is assured....
...We were staying in the Grand Hotel Gjeravica, a lodge that Lynx rents out for the winter season....
...I first meet them a few hours earlier at the Geyser Point Bar & Grill at the Wilderness Lodge, stop number one on the itinerary....
...But it’s taken till now for the company to open an outpost overseas....
...Scott is many things, among them a sometimes peerless grand-design film-maker. A comedian he is not. Technically, the project is a crime movie....
...I immediately picture him in any number of situations: hosting ropey flat viewings as an estate agent, reclining in the VIP lounge at the Monaco Grand Prix....
...The company is also pitching a bespoke offering, in which it will design trips based on a customer’s favourite book....
...In the past that something has taken the form of fascism, Masonic lodges, and unelected “apolitical” technocrats like Mario Draghi....
...Grand classical gateways were decorated with obelisks and baroque urns....
...of Grand Teton National Park....
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