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...There a wine room, private guest suite and an indoor swimming pool on a lower level that opens on to a large terrace....
...Looney’s interim replacement is chief financial officer Murray Auchincloss, who told staff in a town-hall meeting on Wednesday that BP had “the full support of the board to continue to deliver the plan we...
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...“We started with something specific in mind, which was the feel of a real comasco home,” Valentina says. Hotels that feel like home is a claim that is rarely made good on....
...In 2016, in partnership with chef Ivor Jones, he opened Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia, a super-slick winery just the other side of Table Mountain from Cape Town....
...Ford was nudged and challenged as she tried to use the coffee machine in the hospitality suite....
...All of it is brought to bear at Borgo Santandrea, which opened quietly in July in the tiny town of Conca dei Marini, a few miles west of Amalfi....
...Before anyone starts to feel sorry for the bankers who had to settle for a view of the Atlantic Ocean from their homes in the Hamptons instead of the French Riviera, investment banks booked $28bn in fees...
...In the charged nocturnal hours of “Walker”, a newly married woman leaves her husband asleep in their hotel honeymoon suite in a small Scottish seaside town....
...There are al fresco painting classes, and cooking ones too, with the chefs at the ravishingly pretty Casa del Presidente in Barichara, which is home for part of the trip.From £7,655 per person for 13 nights...
...Within an hour’s drive of the Castelletto are the towns of Bassano del Grappa and Asolo....
...The memorable finale is a feast in a turf-roofed quayside bothy just below the Union, with steaks grilled al fresco....
...Shortly after, local teenagers were running home to say they’d seen celebrities walking in the woods....
...Here’s the FT’s story on the cash and people getting out of town....
...Yet as I ambled around the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload...
...Lennon’s Tittenhurst Park home in Berkshire, which he passed on to Ringo Starr, was bought in 1988 by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the then ruler of Abu Dhabi....
...Carmine, who shaved his legs and told me he rode 6,000 miles a year back home in New York, had insisted on a road bike....
...Each of its sleek, contemporary suites and villas has sea views, and most come with private plunge pools....
...Its 32 suites rent out for over $300 even in the low season, and it expects to start filling up as the peak season gets under way in September....
...Redolent of so many of his movies, it is pitched somewhere between his childhood homes of Texas and Ohio....
...At one point en route we would stop on a hillside for the chefs in their whites to give an al fresco ceviche-making demonstration....
...He has just committed to staying in the UK by buying a home in Battersea, south London, after years of renting. Just like Virgin Atlantic, he is keen to get on with “fixing it up”....
...According to a joint report by Bank Al-Maghrib and Morocco’s land registry, the average price of property in Marrakech, including building plots, dipped 2.9 per cent during 2014, with villas (detached homes...
...Jamil Anderlini goes with Xiang Ju, a domestic servant in Beijing, on her 1,500km journey back to her home town on the Yangtze river....
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