Hints and tips:
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Today, holiday rental search platform Likibu lists more than 900 short-term rentals in Ljubljana, while local residents deal with rising property prices....
...But running a rural hotel in a past-its-prime holiday destination didn’t exactly prove easy....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...It should talk to the Japanese people coming back to Paris to enjoy the holidays, to the American audience — the number one foreign visitors are the Americans....
...She was bank holidays and Christmas and those times which are quite fun to be around....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Or in the words of the NBA, “The fellas are in the holiday spirit.”...
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts....
...“If it’s an ‘amber’ or ‘red’ country, please don’t travel for holidays,” he stressed. The return of British tourists is economically vital for Spain and Greece....
...The EU will edge closer on Wednesday to agreeing a common certification system, allowing travellers to start planning their summer holidays....
...Another flashpoint has been how to classify vaccines not yet approved by EU regulators — such as Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...(Actually, the future is still up for grabs as cockapoos and cavapoos act out a Krays v Richardsons-style battle for control of the capital’s green spaces....
...From most others, a degree of style can be salvaged: slithery polyester soccer kit can be worn under a bomber jacket, the chunky V-neck cricketer’s jumper atop jeans....
...(FT) Holiday notice The Brussels Briefing is off for an Easter holiday break. We will be back on April 12. jim.brunsden@ft.com; @jimbrunsdenphilip.stafford@ft.com; @staffordphilipdavid.hindley@ft.com...
...Diplomats said the commission informed ambassadors it would rename the planned “digital green pass” to merely a “green certificate”....
...The green revolution would have us all eating less meat and dairy produce, trading in our current car for an all-electric vehicle or a good bicycle, forgoing jet travel to a foreign holiday, changing our...
...“I saw the kimono exhibition at London’s V&A before things closed down – I often go there for inspiration,” she says....
...Meanwhile, the African Union announced that it had secured 300m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has also been sold to countries including Algeria, Argentina and Brazil....
...This bullish thesis is not just about rich westerners hopping off on holiday again once they are vaccinated....
...Overall “the recovery in the house market has so far been V-shaped”, said Hansen Lu, property economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy....
...The first time Prince Charles meets a 16-year-old Diana Spencer, she is dressed as a fairy from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, wearing green tights and not much else....
...Loans and mortgage holidays, which only delay interest payments, risk increasing private debt, already at record levels....
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
...Last year, Taillevent’s owners hired chef David Bizet from the Four Seasons’ George V to reinvent and modernise the menu....
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