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...Soprano Elena Xanthoudakis plays Lucia; tenor Rosario La Spina is her lover Edgardo....
...Buying agent Lucía de la Fuente started helping Colombians move to Spain when victory was expected for Gustavo Petro of the leftist coalition Pacto Historico....
...The dining room faces the park also. Some of my best ideas have come from boredom. Or, conversely, from conversations with friends....
...One word of advice to prospective guests reading on the hotel website that it is “situated on a secluded laneway overlooking Hyde Park”....
...June 29 to July 6; further information and tickets here Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen’s long-standing annual celebration of all things jazz, with performances filling the streets, parks and venues...
...And we tend to find them more off the southern islands like Martinique and Saint Lucia....
...In Wandsworth, there’s a branch of a local pizzeria chain called Zia Lucia that serves Neapolitan-style pizzas. They’re some of the best I’ve had in London....
...A spokesperson for Mujica, 87, said the former president was not taking media requests at present because of the ill health of his wife, the former first lady Lucía Topolansky....
...When it comes to galleries and museums, there’s no shortage of choice in Rome, but the Galleria Borghese, located in the splendid Villa Borghese park, never fails to amaze....
...After gaining a scholarship to Princeton, she marries first the WASP (and waspish) Fen, and then novelist Howard Burch, whom she meets while jogging in Central Park....
...I selected “firm pressure” on the form, and therapist Lucia took this on board with gusto....
...Lucia van der Post was a guest of Africa Travel (020-7529 8550; africatravel.com), which can arrange a seven-night trip to Malawi from £4,155pp, including British Airways flights via Johannesburg, ground...
...Lucia, a 21-year-old Hispanic student who has travelled from her home in Newark, New Jersey, agrees....
...What designer Rose Uniacke’s clients want instead is a touch of the refined simplicity she is synonymous with – she was famously called upon by the Beckhams to refurbish their Holland Park villa, and her...
...It begged the question: will these parks ultimately need to be fenced?...
...Rosa Parks.”...
...Lucia van der Post Discovery: Nairobi isn’t short of hotels but finding one with real charm, a hotel where one is happy to spend a day or three recuperating from the fearsome five o’clock morning starts...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letters in response to this article: Our St Lucia hotel saved us a cool £414,000 / From David Cummins, Tenterden, Kent, UK Lucy, you made...
...“The city streets would be piled with uncollected waste, which was often set on fire, emitting dangerous quantities of pollution,” says Ugo Leone, director of Vesuvius National Park....
...But some of these solo shows are exceptional; installations by Lucia Nogueira, a Brazilian artist who died in 1998, incorporate everyday items such as plastic bags and crates to both witty and unsettling...
...Lucia van der Post Discovery: When most people think of a safari they think of Africa’s vast savannahs, of Kenya’s Maasai Mara, of South Africa’s bushveld....
...Against the law Police officers gather in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, to oppose legislation that will cut their pension benefits by 30 per cent Winter dip A swimmer dives into an icy river at a park in...
...Makena Road, Makena, Maui, Hawaii, US, $26.995m Where On the south-west coast of Maui, one of the Hawaiian islands in the North Pacific, near Makena state park....
...This stopped me from using my phone on a recent family trip to St Lucia. I typically have three or four books waiting to be read, so will always take one with me on holiday....
...“We need to decide whether we all go to the park and look at other people’s babysitters, or if we create something new, which would be preferable,” he said, according to Reuters....
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