Hints and tips:
...“About a kilometre down, meltwater is meeting hot rock — the magma chamber is 10 kilometres below us.” She shows us little beaches scattered with shining obsidian....
...But by 1973, when the brown bear was finally protected under Spanish law, fewer than 60 of them remained, corralled in the highlands of the north....
...The first port of call in this new lunar rush is going to be the Moon's South Pole. Both the US and China are targeting the region and, sometimes, even the same landing sites. But why the South Pole?...
...The sun was not yet up in Oban, a seaside town in the West Highlands, as I received this information, sitting in the driver’s seat of the camper van I had driven 100 miles from Glasgow and slept in overnight...
...But it’s a memorable trip for those who don’t mind a bit of dirt, and offers a little insight into Icelandic culture. A bit like a Highland bothy, with a swimming pool attached. (Now there’s an idea.)...
...The small boat bounced up the coast of South Uist, spray-battered, through a world of grey....
...I packed little more than my hiking boots, tent and details of a couple of rental companies for a kayak (the Great Glen Way) and road bike (the NC500)....
...After the thrills of the high Serra this felt a little like a comedown....
...Then we had balanced across a bridge made of two old planks to reach the only footpath, an ancient trail heading south over the mountains to Peanmeanach....
...The ex-KKR dealmaker waging a campaign on a K-Pop machine Activists have historically held little sway in South Korea....
..., served with a rock of ice the size of a Rubik’s cube....
...In the bar I feel noticeably clean shaven and slightly ashamed of my spotless red sweater bought in the highlands of Cuzco. Fellow city slickers are tagged by suspiciously new looking Gore-Tex....
...Cumberland launched a merciless pursuit of the defeated rebels and followed up with a ruthless “pacification” of the Highlands....
...of a little twist....
...South Korea’s booming hedge fund industry (FT)...
...“We are ruled by people in the south of England, and that isn’t right. Ach well, good to see you. Nice rocks,” and he is off. We place the stone paintings, move on to Craig Phadrig....
...Address book Milroys of Soho at Spitalfields 76 Commercial Street, London E1 6LY Black Rock 9 Christopher Street, London EC2A 2BS The Prince Akatoki Hotel 50 Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London...
...He has recently bought a former Victorian B&B, Kerrow House, just south of the village of Cannich, which will be our base....
...South of the German border in Switzerland, things were relatively more upbeat....
...Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has agreed to buy a little piece of Suffolk in the form of one of the UK’s dwindling band of independent pub companies....
...Tariff man Driving from Little Rock towards north-west Arkansas, where Walmart and Tyson Foods have their headquarters, towns and small cities cluster by the roadside; art museums funded by Walmart's founding...
...He explains how England’s experiment with republican government, forged in military victory, foundered on the rocks of imperial adventure....
...I swallowed a mussel in a jellified rock pool and then climbed back on to land with a sip of a floral earthy white....
...Here was one of the planet’s great quirks of nature, formed by the winter rains that fall in Angola’s highlands, then flow south looking for the sea but finding only a tectonic trough in the Kalahari....
...Last year, Jollibee took a majority stake in Super Foods, a Vietnamese company that operates Pho24 restaurants, the Highlands Coffee chain and Hard Rock Cafes mainly in south-east Asia, Hong Kong and Macau...
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