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...We enter the country through the mountainside Šćepan Polje border crossing; the long gravel roads on the Bosnia side become an almost marble-like tarmac that spreads like butter through the jagged canyons...
...and blue and red plaid”, a memory cemented by the way the coat completely cushioned her fall when she slipped on the building’s worn marble stairs....
...Downstairs, the spa features a Turkish-style marble hammam, various treatments and a small, well-equipped gym....
...Architectural-scale works such as “House to Watch the Sunset”, a tower framed by three staircases, and “NotOna”, a tunnel carved into a marble cliff, have led the artist to be “always looking for land”,...
...She describes her approach to life as “let’s jump off a cliff and see if it works”....
...This April, Scott opens up another piece of history, this time picking threads that wind in and out of the silver route — the Vía de la Plata — and crossing into Portugal when spring flowers carpet the hills...
...It has Baroque and Romanesque-style marble floors, frescoes and columns....
...This was, the occupant explained, a “packraft” — a tiny vessel used by back-country hikers as a means of crossing rivers, or remote lakes....
...At peace, I touched my head to the glass, meditating on the green Prahova river bubbling its way through the snow, icicles trimming the cliffs above....
...Gaudy green parakeets flashed across the monochrome landscape, flying home in pairs to roost in the cliff walls of the crater....
...One minute you’re navigating a cliff-edge, deliriously high above a glittering expanse of sea....
...A long, sandy beach curves alongside distant high-rise hotels and apartment blocks....
...The former built enormous marble mansions along the cliff face, which they referred to as their summer “cottages”....
...The new 53-room hotel, an all-white modernist structure whose balconies subtly mimic those of an old-fashioned Spanish apartment house, stands directly on Passeig Vara de Rey, traditionally the solar plexus...
...“The windowsill of my apartment last year,” she said, gesturing to a far corner of the park. “They just laid this season’s eggs.”...
...It was 2008, and the ancient building was being slowly transformed into luxury apartments....
...It took five hours to get to Corfu by boat,” says Watrous of a crossing that now takes half an hour by hydrofoil....
...Three years ago he finally settled in Taormina, where he bought an apartment. The pandemic prompted Roberts to explore the island further....
...Forty per cent of the apartments have their own dedicated home offices.”...
...After crossing the river in the small ferry, I call at the Ness’s Information Centre, where a vintage MOD sign prohibits “photography and sketching”....
...The landscape is rugged and dramatic, the cliffs covered in spiky shrubs and the odd long-suffering tree, sculpted by the wind....
...When it opens next year, this sprawling apartment with its megalomania-inducing vistas will be the crowning triumph of his five-year refurbishment of Claridge’s....
...There are marble floors and columns, the tinkle of fountains, fretwork lanterns, citrus trees in pots; above the upper gallery you see only a square of blue sky, leaving nothing to betray the fact you are...
...It is edged with patterned cliffs and stark rocks, worn into fantastic shapes. Dalí identified with it, describing it as the mainspring of his art....
...It was like a sheer cliff that went straight down, all reinforced with concrete. And that was purely during the construction phase, to protect the plants and keep everything from falling in....
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