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...Set on the banks of the Reuss river, the 300-year-old chalet oozes charm, with its exposed timber beams, geothermal heating and antique skis mounted on the walls....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...This reclamation of a long-neglected elevated railroad track has inspired similar projects throughout the world....
..., while planetary deities and personifications of the seasons and rivers — Milan’s Po as a bull — spill from cloud banks and trompe l’oeil cornices....
...Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World, by Laurence C Smith, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 368 pages Victor Mallet is the FT’s Paris bureau chief and author...
...He should have visited Cat Head blues shop, where the owner would have directed him to the homes of Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, Rev C L Franklin and others....
...Across the Hudson River in Jersey City, class A office space is going for $20 per sq ft per year, he says....
...Eragny, a village on the river Epte upstream from Giverny, was Pissarro’s home from 1884 — Monet paid for his house there....
...It was about the fellow who works, the fellow who builds, who makes railroads and houses — and he’s left empty-handed....
...We were on the river an hour and a half....
...And the janitors and the secretaries and the co-eds enjoying their barbecue out on the college lawn, who find themselves in the line of fire emanating from the lecture hall because li’l Johnny-from-Lubbock...
...“La Belgique — c’est à moi,” he declared to his Italian pupil Paolo Pejrone in an atypical flash of pride....
...It was tramline C that took me to the Miroir d’eau, the “water mirror”, which sits between the river and Bordeaux’s best façades on Place de la Bourse....
...We could create millions of jobs by rebuilding our transport and water systems – ending the congestion that stifles our ports, airports, railroads and highways; increasing productivity; and empowering the...
...Anke L. Nolting, New York, NY, US...
...The French fancies and cream cakes, still baked daily on the premises, are a reliable source of calories and le café au lait “c’est bon”....
...Analysis of 500 scales showed that salmon from the River Tyne in Northumberland were swimming towards the Norwegian Sea, whereas fish from the River Frome in Dorset were feeding close to Iceland....
...India approves 16 FDI proposals worth $207 mln India on Tuesday approved 16 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals worth 9.24bn rupees ($207m), including financial services firm L&T Finance Holdings’...
...You propose yet more boiler plate within reports to hamper investors seeking the “income statement”, as the P&L is now faddishly called....
...From RNS: Forth Ports announces that, following an approach from Arcus’ European Infrastructure Fund 1 L.P....
...Sébastien Fillon of Clos du Serres also points out that the proximity of the Larzac plateau means cool summer nights after hot days, with diurnal temperature variations of up to 20°C: as refreshing here...
...In the 5th arrondissement, opposite the Ile St-Louis on the south bank of the River Seine, average prices were up an even more astonishing 6.7 per cent year on year to €8,580 per sq metre, while the 9th,...
...Peter DeFazio, another Democrat, said: “We don’t need those kinds of characters involved in our railroads.” Snehal Amin, a partner at TCI, said on Wednesday the company was not seeking to control CSX....
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