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...Whenever I visit in September I am ashamed at my potted pelargoniums compared with hers, ranging from two ivy-leaved variegated varieties, Rose Silver Cascade and L’Elegante, to two Uniques, Scarlet and...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...He confessed he had no way of explaining the vibrancy of the 2022 Pin, which was grown on much less drought-friendly deep gravel and sandy soils....
...The best bit of advice I’ve ever received is “take the gravel in a shell and make a pearl”. I can’t remember where I heard it but I wrote it down and have it pinned in front of my desk....
...The Fontaine de l’Observatoire sits astride the 0° meridian from which the world is measured. Except it’s not. That too was a French dream....
...We stroll past the Chelsea tractors towards the pub entrance, tucked back from the road down a pristine gravel drive, its newly scrubbed exterior glowing in the light of a full harvest moon....
...There was a big stylistic difference between Figeac and Cheval, which are both at the extreme western end of the appellation, partly on gravel, and have significant proportions of Cabernet as well as the...
...Earlier this month, a new Nightjet sleeper train pulled out of Vienna Hauptbahnhof bound for Paris Gare de l’Est, the first direct rail link between the two cities since the Orient Express retired from the...
...It was his personal proceeds from the sale of his family’s gravel company....
...My chef is Alain Passard of Paris’s L’Arpège, who revolutionised vegetable-based cuisine in France....
...Its burgundy walls were decorated with frescoes and trompe l’oeil that would not have looked out of place in a Renaissance palace 1,500 years later. Oddly, his study was smaller than my own....
...So we beat on, Massoud, Mohammed and me, careering across plains of gravel and gypsum, leaving plumes of dust in our wake, until, bowling over ripples of sand, we arrived at a clutch of white tents pitched...
...Most runners take the gravel path around the perimeter — just over 2km long — and I always choose the clockwise route....
...The rest is spoken, albeit with musical background, plus sound-effects such as door slams and footsteps on gravel. The songs themselves carry little of the narrative as far as I can tell....
...Together with the finest Beaujolais sites, which also lie within Lyon’s ambit, they form the only major French wine-growing zone whose soils are principally derived from granite rather than limestone or gravels...
...A few steps away across crunchy gravel, the former stables is now L’Ecurie, a wine bar and champagne boutique....
...We grind to a halt on bleached gravel in front of Château de Beaucastel, just outside Orange in the southern Rhône....
...The singer-songwriter now leads commercial and private workshops in self-development, and helps mega-brands such as Pepsi-Cola, Google and L’Oréal change their business culture by “creating intimacy and...
...These too are artworks — trompe-l’oeil ceramic panels painted by Lucy McKenzie....
...As well as having great views, it was on the edge of the thriving village of Benenden, yet well off the road, up a gravel track past a cluster of converted farm buildings....
...So much for Le déjeuner sur l’herbe. In search of an explanation I went to see Alain Bourdin, a professor at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée’s French Institute of Urbanisation....
...L’Eroica, for the uninitiated, is an annual cycling festival in Tuscany meant to evoke il ciclismo eroico, the gauzy “golden age” of Italian cycling....
...The “millionaire’s garden” was the Château de l’Ermitage in Cap d’Ail, and the client was the Conte Rossi di Montelera, whose principal home was near Turin....
...Axa has long owned Domaine de l’Arlot down the road....
...It was a Citroën 2CV with blue-and-gold bodywork and chequerboard upholstery, a “Prestige” model dating from 1974, parked somewhat incongruously on the gravel driveway outside the smart Cavas Wine Lodge...
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