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...Flying green: FT travel editor Tom Robbins writes about his experience onboard the world’s fully electric two-seat plane, which was recently certified for commercial use in the EU market....
...Details Tom Robbins was a guest of Swoop Arctic (swoop-arctic.com), a specialist that also offers trips to Arctic Canada, Russia and Svalbard....
...Its facade was commissioned by Louis XV in 1755, and it's where Marie-Antoinette once took music lessons....
...Tom Robbins travelled as a guest of EasyJet, which flies to Geneva from 15 UK airports, and Auto Europe, which offers a week’s car hire from Geneva from about £155...
...Its façade was commissioned by Louis XV in 1755, and it’s where Marie-Antoinette once took music lessons....
...Villa Marie features 21 bedrooms in whitewashed bungalows and stands in distinct contrast to the furs and roaring fires of the luxurious alpine hotels for which the group is best known....
...In fact, the driving force behind the new three-star Flaine hotel is not Mme Sibuet but her children, Nicolas, 32 and Marie, 28....
...Sibuet is best known for luxury hotels, including the lavish Fermes de Marie in Megève, but the 96-room Totem is intended as the first in a mini-chain of design-led three-stars in Alpine resorts....
...They are a Convair 880, the “Lisa Marie”, and a smaller Lockheed JetStar, “Hound Dog II”; the auction ends on February 2....
...Now, though, the hotel has been taken over by Maisons & Hôtels Sibuet, the family-owned group that runs nine properties, including the five-star Les Fermes de Marie in Megève and the Altapura in Val Thorens...
...Tom Robbins Fashion and style Sporting Guide: Los Angeles 1897, by Liz Goldwyn, Regan Arts, RRP$29.99 Admired by fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, Goldwyn’s book is a series of deeply researched but...
...The specific talents of some star dancers involved, including Aurélie Dupont and Marie-Agnès Gillot, have gone unused; the result is an ensemble-driven Boléro of grand visual effects, but lacking in choreographic...
...… The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science, by Armand Marie Leroi, Bloomsbury, RRP£25/ Viking, RRP$29.95 Leroi reconstructs Aristotle’s studies of wildlife at the Kalloni lagoon on Lesbos more than...
...Marie Staunton, chief executive, PLAN UK the charity. Caroline Tapster, former chief executive, Hertfordshire county council. Michael Terrett, chief operating officer, Rolls-Royce....
...tastings, vineyard tours and a visit to a truffle market and stay and dine at two of Ducasse’s hotels, the Hostellerie de L’Abbaye in La Celle-en-Provence and the Bastide de Moustiers in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie...
...Aurélie Dupont, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Alessio Carbone were electric, super-charged, at the head of a fizzing cast, hard-edged, hard-driven, hard to beat....
...The novelist Tom Robbins once wrote: “Humans are the most advanced of mammals because they seldom grow up....
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