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...Like Shakespeare’s Prospero on his island, he is waiting for someone from his past to return and set him free....
...You’ve got bakeries, cafés, bars and restaurants,” says Edward from London who declined to give his real name....
...On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain, by Oliver Smith, Bloomsbury Continuum £20, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life and...
...Meanwhile, the communities of Sandoy hope the tunnel will bring a halt to its declining population (as well as proving a boon to the island’s single café). visitfaroeislands.com Gloucestershire Barnsley...
...This slightly old-world vibe coupled with Yorkville’s trove of traditional tenement-style walk-ups has resulted in an atmosphere — and prices — that are rare in Manhattan....
...Elsewhere across the property there’s a wide range of venues at which to graze and sip, from a lobby cafe offering a Hellenic twist on afternoon tea to a 20-seat speakeasy-style bar, Incognito, specialising...
...Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner Orenda Books £16.99, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...More recently, the rise of open-plan living in the noughties made the island a focal point. The more lavish the knock-through, the larger the island....
...Sometimes a little too loudly: seating by reception — mirrored ceiling, houseplants, rattan, ergonomic stools — has a sort of Death on the Nile as shot by Stanley Kubrick vibe....
...“We looked at Richard Rogers’ kitchen at home [overseen by Rogers’ widow, Ruth, of The River Cafe], the island counter.”...
...The drinks are as good as the finest NY bars, but the metal-edged café tables and original red-leather booths keep the vibe local, turning customers into regulars....
...It was more built up than Ferrante’s Maronti — boat houses, cafés — but all closed and dimmed. The darkness excused the differences....
...La Banchina is also a café that serves light, fresh seasonal food, making it ideal for a long Sunday lunch....
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...This plot is borrowed from the movie, but of equal importance is the dissociative or surreal vibe of the nouvelle vague generally....
...Every overnight stop helps dismantle remaining preconceptions of the island....
...A happier tale is that of the celebrated café marron. This tree was presumed lost until 1980 when a schoolteacher showed his biology class a picture....
...Hangman Island by novelist and poet Kate Rhodes (Simon & Schuster, £9.99) is the seventh in her superb series set on the storm-torn Scilly Isles, a “locked island” mystery that has her doughty protagonist...
...Iceland, a location “behind a hundred heaths and rugged mountains” where for aeons the clocks seemed to stop until, in the last century, they began to race as global conflict, trade and travel made the island...
...“I feel like the whole 1970s vibe, particularly after the Chloé collection, is going to take off,” she says. “It feels so right at the moment.”...
...She has renamed her café the “Renoir Tea Garden”, prepared a Renoir cappuccino stencil, hung a selection of Renoir prints on the wall, and arranged a long terrace ready for wannabe Impressionists with their...
...The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia Allen Lane £25, 512 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...“There’s an energy when you walk through the little alleys; and the water, it gives me old Venice vibes from when Venice was just a bar, a restaurant and a crackly old coffee shop.”...
...“Mixing congratulations and high vibes with drink and music with shopping always gives a bump in sales,” says Pruzan’s Copithorne....
...Their night of passion inaugurates a new tradition: each year, when Ana makes her island pilgrimage, she will take a new lover....
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