Hints and tips:
...One of those oils is Laudemio, which mill is owned by the Frescobaldi family: the quality is impeccable, the packaging sublime, and the groves and press are just a 30-minute drive from Florence....
...Next up is the Regent Shanghai on the Bund, a new 15-storey tower on the site of what was the Shanghai International Seamen’s Club and Seagull Hotel, where the Huangpu river meets Suzhou Creek....
...Avery Creek, Arden, North Carolina, US, $5.25mn Where Within The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, a private community 15 miles south of Asheville....
...What A 60-acre estate with vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees....
...For those that love mucking around in boats, the tidal creeks and salt marshes of the Cleddau river area and Neyland on the Milford Haven estuary are popular....
...The character of the groves varies from park to park. In Humboldt, the forest floor along the creek side was emerald with sorrel, dotted with pink flowers....
...With the moon high in the sky, I lay awake reading Tanizaki in bed, looking out through a mesh screen towards the riverine creek....
...Union Grove Venture Partners co-founder Gregory Bohlen said the group has made about 50 times its private investments in the company....
...Pinot Gris 2017, Becker Vineyard Cuvée 2016, Phantom Creek Vineyard Cuvée 2016, Syrah 2016 Poplar Grove, Legacy 2014 and 2008, Cabernet Franc 2015 Quail’s Gate, Dry Riesling 2018 Seven Stones Chardonnay...
...It has two distinct sides: the west, where the beaches are sandy, dramatic and cliff-backed, and the gentler east, where the Helford river snakes through forested creeks....
...The first campsite was spread along the river under a grove of purple-barked ponderosa pines. We set up our tents, swam (briefly, as the water is cold), read (there is a small camp library) and dozed....
...There is also a large swimming hole in Malibu Creek State Park, a short drive away....
...Lovers Point, a beauty spot in the nearby Pacific Grove park, also gets some screen time....
...Scraps of canal and little locks, once-silted up creeks and grimy inlets have been cleaned up and rebranded as glamorous waterways intended to bring the money in....
...As I started to look harder, the names got even better: Lousy Creek, Mosquito Creek, Dead Fish Billabong....
...Take the Stadthaus building in Murray Grove, Hackney, northeast London....
...Last summer, a 10-bedroom/30,000 sq ft compound on Miami’s Indian Creek Island sold for a record $47m; while in March, US “infomercial” entrepreneur Ajit Khubani reportedly paid $34m for a 16,000 sq ft penthouse...
...Friday There’s a tidal creek 200 yards from our house called Burnt Mill Creek. It used to be called Mill Creek, but the mill burnt (a century ago), so it’s Burnt Mill Creek....
...Their arrow-straight trunks seem to form architectural columns, giving rise to names such as “Cathedral Grove”....
...The property comes with 11 ponds, one lake and four creeks; residents own 100 per cent of the water rights to three of the creeks....
...The ranch has four guesthouses, a manager’s house, horse facilities, two ponds and two miles of trout fishing along Six Mile Creek....
...Here, too, there are drainage channels dividing up the land but they feed into sluggish muddy creeks and then to slow meandering rivers and the sea....
...The next island stops were on Odysseus’s mythical home of Ithica, at Váthi and Kioni, then on to the green mountains and deep emerald bays of Fríkes with tiny harbours and creeks on the way....
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