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...One night in 1889, the Phaeton caught fire and drifted across the lagoon of a remote Indian Ocean atoll....
...We walk up and over a small ridge to find a colony of some 70,000 terns....
...Where there was nowhere to sleep, Scott created magical Indian-style tented encampments in romantic ruins....
...There’s a strong focus on contemporary American music, too, represented by the premiere of Jeff Midkiff’s mandolin concerto From the Blue Ridge, orchestral work by Wynton Marsalis, a new commission from...
...While Estelle Manor’s Grade II-listed, 1908 neo-Jacobean Hall is about as grand as they come, the nothing-to-prove maxim will hold here, too....
...Why The house is a 20-minute drive from the resort town of Ballito, home to an annual international surf festival....
...There is the ghost of colonialism too — the station was a pet project of King Leopold II. But the overriding sense is of a structure ecclesiastical in its splendour and scale....
...On Cliff Walk, the beautiful coastline trail established by the Narragansett Indians that the cottages now back on to, I caught glimpses through the hedges of the tennis courts and colonnaded back porches...
...The more ambitious can sign on for wellness experiences, which are currently being regularly held at Taylor River Lodge, Scarp Ridge Lodge and Sopris House in Colorado, and at Deplar Farm, their ski lodge...
...Perched up on a ridge nearby, the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort is among a cluster of five-star properties that pander to moneyed hikers, elephant lovers and sightseers....
...Climbing the rolling hills around Constantine in Algeria last July, we paused at the top of a ridge....
...What A five-bedroom, Grade II-listed Georgian villa on 1.7 acres. A separate lodge house has a further two bedrooms and could be used for extra income....
...On sale for £3.45m, it offers four bedrooms, has fabulous midcentury interiors and was given a Grade II listing in 2012....
...It was the untamed vision I had hoped for — a sinuous, bottle-green ribbon illuminated by a million silver flecks of sunlight, cutting through fold after fold of mountain ridges to the horizon....
...The investment returns from the fund have “actually been too good”, Mr Son boasts, so much so that he is already setting his sights on a “Vision Fund II”....
...But the best south Indian food I’ve ever eaten was served up nearer to Gingee, deep in Chettinad region when I stayed for my birthday at The Bangala in Karaikudi....
...Who Strutt & Parker, struttandparker.com, tel: +44 20 7629 7282 Sunset Ridge, Telluride, Colorado, US, $29m Where On a private ridge of land close to the former silver-mining town of Telluride....
...He was charming and loquacious, words flowing from him as he explained how he represented rich Chinese and Indian investors....
...Enos Poor Bear — a Sioux from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, who campaigned in the past for a memorial to the Indian victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 — now compares the Obama...
...Double rooms at the Al Baleed Resort Salalah by Anantara cost from £225 Photographs: 4corners; Andrew Eames...
...Plettenberg Bay, a small resort town on the Indian Ocean about 500km east of Cape Town, has been a secluded holiday spot for South Africa’s well-heeled for decades. But it is closely guarded....
...Designed by architects Savioz Fabrizzi, it sits on a ridge 3,256m above sea level, between the resorts of Zinal and Zermatt....
...But when King Philip II prohibited the planting of vineyards in the American colonies, the Peruvians turned their hand to distilling, fermenting the grape must in clay amphoras known by the Quechua Indians...
...Also present at the meeting would be the four statues of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, the bronze Japanese Buddha at Todai-ji, the statue of Athena at the Parthenon and several more....
...And he tells me the passengers on the Colona II’s next trip will be Scandinavian hoteliers, seeking not encounters with Moken, but islands suitable for a resort....
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