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...I live in Mid-Levels and so can walk up to the Peak – Victoria Peak is the tallest hill on Hong Kong Island, which you can also get to via the Peak tram....
...They can stroll around Prešernov trg Square’s pastel houses, and catch the Scandi-style glass funicular to the 11th-century castle, perched atop a hill overlooking the city....
...At 15 storeys, it continues to lord it over the John Nash terraces of Pall Mall and the Victoriana of Haymarket’s theatreland below....
...Folded into green slopes beyond ginseng fields and a 620-year-old pine tree is Beopjusa, a mountain monastery dating back to 553....
...Raiatea is 12 miles long, with a spine of green mountains and a barrier reef extending all around it like a halo....
...The Standard and Edition Hotels groups have planted flags in the vicinity of mall-lined Orchard Road; both will open by early 2024....
...The facility is inside a 15th-century fortress on a hill 500 metres high and protected by a double row of ramparts. It was intended to protect prisoners from people on the outside....
...Yet the Old Orchard mall branch is no longer described on CD Peacock’s website as an “authorised Rolex dealer”....
...In the 1920s the Irish community of Tipperary Hill vigorously objected to the green light being on the bottom, pelting it with stones until the authorities put it on top....
...Copper is critical to the green energy transition needed to avert climate catastrophe, a component in solar panels, wind turbines and electric motors....
...Interior doors showcase some 130 years’ worth of paint: 10 layers revealed in strips, from 19th-century steel greys to mid 20th-century green to various shades of white....
...The takeover attempt comes just months after Apollo sold textbook publisher McGraw Hill to private equity firm Platinum Equity, which is operated by another Beverly Hills financier, billionaire dealmaker...
...The Capella, on a nicely landscaped hill, enjoys one of the best vantages, in two late 19th-century Tanah Merah colonial barracks joined by a sinuous extension courtesy of Foster + Partners....
...What would you pair with green asparagus and poached eggs?...
...In Starbucks, Andrew, a 35-year-old tech worker, is unimpressed: “The place feels like someone has plonked a huge Westfield [retail mall] down right next to the river.”...
...I pass railway tracks, a shopping mall, and second-hand clothes for sale hanging from the mwarobaini trees....
...The account has industry fans such as Jonah Hill, Natasha Lyonne and Jeremy O’Harris (“He was in my DMs begging me to post more Pasolini fits,” Kourounian says of the playwright, over Zoom)....
...council candidate who shares a two-bedroom flat in the Hanger Hill Estate with her husband and nine-year-old daughter....
...Fans want to believe her stories of a better, brighter future filled with flying cars, green energy and longer, healthier lives....
...Aside from direct investments, most wealth deals were executed by portfolio companies owned by private equity, such as Leonard Green-backed serial acquirer Mariner Wealth and Oak Hill-backed Mercer Advisors...
...Leave The Ritz and enter Green Park next to the Tube station, descending the Queen’s Walk (see walk 1) as far as The Mall....
...Posh neighbourhoods in provincial backwaters were named after it — I’ve been to the Santa Barbara district on the hills overlooking Makhachkala in Dagestan, one of Russia’s poorest regions....
...Those slums, from Notting Hill to SoHo, are now among the most desirable urban neighbourhoods in the world....
...In the same way London viewers thrill at a glimpse of Pall Mall or Notting Hill, people hailing from the exotic places Bond visits love to see their homeland featured in the films....
...I turned to synthetic turf for my balcony in Columbia Heights: a minor nod of fake green rebellion. But I soon learnt it’s not all politicians, lobbyists and spies....
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