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...At first, one might not see it as a business book, but Browder’s harrowing journey from hedge fund manager to accidental activist is a searing warning for those contemplating business prospects in countries...
...A 10-night package, including five nights on the beach at the Ahu Bay resort, four at the Jetwing Kaduruketha ecolodge in the Hill Country and one at a century-old boutique hotel in Colombo’s leafy Cinnamon...
...“I have a picture of myself, in fact, as a child, completely nude, holding a shoe.”...
...Holding a bullhorn, Gold delivered the speech she’d intended to give earlier. The crowd, however, was less interested in listening than stealing stuff, breaking stuff and smearing faeces on stuff....
...Stay: Bruma is the Valle de Guadalupe’s finest – a contemporary winery with slick tasting rooms, an eight-room boutique B&B at the edge of the vineyards, and a smattering of guest villas overlooking their...
...Hotels, B&Bs and rentals can be a superb source of design inspiration, so look at it this way: a minibreak might not only provide a holiday, but also spark ideas. In essence, it’s all research!...
...A third property, Kelburne Estate, is expected at the end of the year, a string of cottages amid the tea plantations of Haputale, 1,500 metres up in the southern hill country....
...Our own furniture would barely fill a single supersized room and so we’d be grateful for everything. We’d even eat the groceries in the cupboards....
...’ cottages that date back to the early 1700s, when the city was a hive of merchants trading fish and furniture....
...Craveiral Farmhouse has much in common with the second of my next-level farm stays, a country estate in the hills between Cádiz and Málaga....
...Oil output has more than halved to about 150,000 b/d in the past decade and the landlocked country still has to pay fees to Sudan to ship its crude because of a lack of infrastructure at home....
...Opec has also grown more gloomy about oil demand growth, now expecting a rise of 5.6m b/d this year, lowered from 5.9m. Prices should be falling steeply....
...Nobody said I couldn’t bring a wheely case. I thought I’d get my money’s worth. You’d be amazed how many mince pies you can force in if you open the expandable section. Alistair Boys. Boys!...
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home recently is a set of hill-tribe costumes from southeast Asia....
...I’d like to think that the early rollout of the vaccine would mean the UK economy would open up earlier and therefore recover more quickly than other G7 countries....
...The venue was the Rancho’s new chapel, standing high on a hill like a lookout post over the sea....
...“I will be representing our Country in London at NATO, while the Democrats are holding the most ridiculous Impeachment hearings in history. Read the Transcripts, NOTHING was done or said wrong!...
...German imports have fallen much less than exports over the past two months, which is also suggestive of German domestic demand holding up better than in partner countries....
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...It wasn’t until I’d spent a few years in London that I started to notice the pianos. There were the pianos in the stations — King’s Cross, Tottenham Court Road, Lewisham, the underpass by Herne Hill....
...But there is no faulting the quality of the furniture or finish. The marble bathrooms, in particular, are a dream. And I grew to love it....
...I loved this series from Kashmir Hill explaining how embedded Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are in our lives. Deleting a Facebook account is one thing....
...We booked into Chilvers’ favourite B&B, Lince Casa Rural, with antique, sun-bleached chairs, a beautiful library and bedroom windows flung open to the sound of hooves and stables below....
...“A library is your story on a shelf,” says Nicky Dunne, manager of Heywood Hill, the London bookshop where Nancy Mitford used to work....
...“I remember drawing a brain and holding it afterwards. What a weird feeling that was.” Lately her body has been through it a bit....
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