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...At the main bus station in Villa Nueva, part of the capital’s metropolitan sprawl, burras of all colours judder to a halt....
...Branson has had a long association with the island....
...German buyers often head to the market town of Santanyí in the south-east, “an area known as the ‘Hamburg hills’,” she adds, where you can buy a modern two-bedroom villa for €795,000....
...From the air, the most striking features of the islands are the steep verdant hills falling away to white sandy beaches lapped by turquoise seas....
...Up a hill, down a leafy road and suddenly it is all quaint pubs, tea rooms and handsome 18th-century houses....
...Expats are making big bucks selling other peoples’ products to people they have never met from their Balinese villas. He seemed to have little reason to take his own life....
...Within days they found a temporary factory nearby — but up a hill and with no power, water, toilets or mobile phone signal....
...The sharp-suited, soft-spoken 64-year-old is a regular speaker at the Beverly Hills Bar Association, close to the Beverly Hilton, venue for the Golden Globe awards....
...In 1954, he went to London to study at the Architectural Association....
...Before that, he cooked at the Globe dive bar in Notting Hill, where Lucian Freud was a regular and goat’s neck soup was a staple of the menu, a dish that the owner promised his customers would make them...
...That award was a salute to the entire country.”...
...A hacienda is halfway between a farm and a country house. Even the grandest still have strong agricultural associations and most are built from adobe....
...“In a neighbourhood studded thickly with elegant villas and mansions, Bayswater and Notting Hill in the parish of Kensington, is a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London...
...Huge sums appeared to have flowed out to offshore companies whose owners were hidden....
...Most owners on Ladbroke Grove’s plush southern stretch would struggle with the analogy....
...This is a loose association of places, owned by a variety of owners from Wall Street billionaires to third-generation families of rural landowners — and they are booming....
...Obsessing only about where “Andrew Hill” ranks is, however, not the best use of my time – or the salon’s – unless I plan to take up hairdressing in the West Country, or the other Andrew Hill starts a sideline...
...In 1979, the skyscraper was sold for $85m to pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund....
...Bank of Bird-in-Hand, backed by Amish investors and based among the rolling hills of rural Pennsylvania, opened its doors to the public on a brisk morning in early December....
...In the UK, the Ashtons’ native country, nearly 30 per cent of animal owners have insurance for their pets, according to market research reports from Mintel and Datamonitor....
...Instead, they can use this excellent primer to enjoy other countries’ misery....
...up to 36 villas on the Aman site, a Jack Nicklaus golf course and two further hotels at nearby Porto Heli....
...The plaintiffs include HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education. Pearson owns the Financial Times....
...But nowhere is looking more ripe for recovery than the Wilshire area just north of Beverly Hills....
...The global sports market is growing two to four times faster than gross domestic product in developed countries, according to AT Kearney, the US consultancy....
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