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...Palazzo Passerini is a three-bedroom residence that can be booked on a B&B basis or bought out in exclusivity by a total of six guests....
...“I thought I’d help out and then go back to work,” Grace recalls....
...No matter: those were the days I’d get in the car and drive. Up to the glacial lakes of Covadonga, glittering like sapphires among the limestone crags of the Picos....
...Maria Shollenbarger travelled with Cazenove+Loyd, which tailors trips to Morocco from £6,000pp for seven nights’ B&B including private experiences (excluding international flights). cazloyd.com, riadmenaandbeyond.com...
...Rystad, a research group, said Venezuelan production could increase by a maximum of 200,000 b/d six months after sanctions are eased....
...Venezuela boasts the largest proven oil reserves on the planet and in its heyday pumped about 3mn barrels a day, though years of mismanagement and US-led sanctions have left production well below 1mn b/d...
...At the age of 25, the artist was moving away from his rose period, but had not yet embarked on Cubist classics such as “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”....
...For decades run as a charming but not luxurious B&B, it has been acquired by Patrice Taravella, the French landscape and garden designer best known for his stunning restoration of the gardens at Babylonstoren...
...A block known as 43-ITT produces 55,000 barrels a day of oil — about 12 per cent of the country’s total of 480,000 b/d — according to national oil company Petroecuador....
...Stay: Bruma is the Valle de Guadalupe’s finest – a contemporary winery with slick tasting rooms, an eight-room boutique B&B at the edge of the vineyards, and a smattering of guest villas overlooking their...
...The newest hotel in Venice, Violino d’Oro (violinodoro.com; doubles from €658) is close by, as is the Pensione Accademia (pensioneaccademia.it; doubles from about €300)....
...I’ve recently discovered Vienna, which I’d never been to and which, oh my God, I loved....
...For something a bit more contemporary, with self-catering in mind (think small kitchens and work areas), Vergauwe and Rosseel have just opened a second, three-room B&B, Atelier d’Arthur, across the garden...
...From €1,000 per night B&B, passalacqua.it/en...
...The long, two-storey building next to the Château, known as Les Clefs (“the keys”), now houses a three-suite maison d’hôtes....
...“The roughly 1.5mn b/d of crude alone passing through the straits is a sizeable part of global demand. If something happens to it, prices spiral again . . . No one would be happy about it.”...
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...As well as making his own art, he is creative director of Laguna~B – the Murano-made homewares brand founded by his mother, Marie, who died in 2013. “Murano is looking to find a new identity,” he says....
...“There is plan A, B, C, D,” said a person close to the executive team. “[But] no one wants to make a decision.”...
...The playlist – Benny Goodman one minute, Eric B & Rakim the next – is always a pleasant surprise....
...There’s the very worthy Galleria d’Arte Moderna, in the Sant’Anna convent complex, and vibrant concerts and exhibitions in the almost absurdly pretty Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Kalsa’s unfinished, roofless...
...Originally designed by B Robert Swartburg in 1953, the Vagabond has a pool bar that is also worth checking out....
...Economic change was no less dramatic, necessitated by falling output at its ageing wells where production fell from almost 1.9m barrels a day in 2008 to nearer 1.3m b/d last year....
...I lay there in that curious coffin, smelling the soft smells of beeswax and warm wood, thinking what a long way we’ve come since those mean old farmhouse B&Bs....
...scents and iconic jewel designs are part of many of the city’s world-beating luxury houses (think Bulgari, for instance, and its green tea eau de cologne might pop up in your mind before, say, the famous B.Zero1...
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