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...In today’s newsletter: DD chats with Silver Lake’s Egon Durban Private credit pounces on loan deals Silver Lake prepares for big ‘all-in’ bets US private equity group Silver Lake is up to big things....
...The huge glass-vaulted halls and Italianate brickwork are surrounded by a 196-acre park and boating lake. At 237 metres long and 38 metres high, Ally Pally is wider and taller than Buckingham Palace....
...Children eat ice creams. Spa life is life. It’s also written deep into the Omorovicza DNA....
...Dates to be announced Sport Mega Ice Hockey 5s, Mega Ice, L10 Mega Box, Kowloon Bay This huge ice-hockey tournament featuring 80 teams from around the world is free to watch....
...While I was having a coffee on one of the comfortable lounge sofas, I noticed a pop-up stand serving ice cream in cones, while decadent cakes and pastries produced by the in-house patisserie were on display...
...To the north, yet to emerge from beneath its snug duvet of morning mist, Lake Thun, with the Swiss Plateau and Germany’s Black Forest beyond....
...March 7 to 10; further information here Performance ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’, Royal Opera House One of the most beloved ballets in the canon returns to Covent Garden, with Tchaikovsky’s music...
...Après-ski is a real thing in St Moritz, with Badrutt’s Palace and the Kulm Hotel bars among my favourites....
...Looking more closely, they saw a tangled mess of metal that was frozen into the ice. Mordhorst recalls returning to their cabin and telling a friend what they saw....
...Something stirred me awake at dawn and I scrabbled to the window in time to see an indigo sky splintered into shards over Lake Küçükçekmece....
...Think water-skiing along Lake Como, stunt-driving classes and casino visits. Some will be critical, arguing that it’s a move away from travel as a means of connecting with a destination....
...Overlooking Plaza Isabel II, it’s right opposite the Teatro Real opera house and a couple of minutes away from the royal palace....
...Belgian environmentalist group Inter Environnement Wallonie has calculated that the 18,000 ghost flights will emit 700,000 tonnes of CO2 and destroy another 2m sq m of Arctic ice....
...The small village has gained new inhabitants — including two ducks looking at each other by the lake, a bronze donkey and two oversized doves....
...Anchored by the palace to the west and the Round Pond in its middle, the Gardens have a plethora of trees to relax by....
...Some of the best skimming lakes are in the Nantlle Valley, where the western hills of Snowdonia open out to the sea....
...The beautiful place we stayed at, for instance, has the feel of a house perched on the shores of a mountain lake....
...After that, it was a jolt to meet him: Ötzi the iceman, curled up in death, wizened to a nutmeg brown by 5,300 years in the ice....
...Lake Como, Italy William Dalrymple Lake Como has been regarded as one of Europe’s most jaw-droppingly beautiful locations since Pliny built villas here shortly before the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD,...
...There are playgrounds galore, mini golf and stalls selling ice cream and basic German fast food such as sausages and chips....
...The Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tudela, visited in 1170 and reported that the king used to take trips on the palace lake in gold and silver-clad boats “with his women”....
...It’s early evening and the lake is bathed in golden light. Families drift about on swan-shaped pedalos....
...with €700 Italian toilet brushes, an ice-hockey pitch and an escape tunnel to the beach....
...hole cut in the ice....
...The small Taiwanese pavilion has an unbeatable view over the lake....
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