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...September; from US$925; firmdalehotels.com Palm Beach, US A century ago Venetian architecture was all the rage in Palm Beach — Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is a case in point — and when the Vineta Hotel, which merits...
...On the way I catch an occasional expanse of the Caribbean sea, calm in the late morning sunlight....
...In January, at a larger sculpture garden closer to Punta del Este, Atchugarry’s foundation opened Uruguay’s first true contemporary art museum: MACA....
...The huts were restaurants, and one, Vista al Mar, was open. We walked out to join a family wrestling with small children and a rum bottle, and eight men lunching in their work boots....
...The Belize Rainforest Reserve in Cayo district is a 1,000-acre ecological community with a boutique eco-hotel, wildlife reserve and organic Fairtrade gardens....
...Luxe Property Cancún is marketing a five-bedroom oceanfront penthouse with a roof garden in the SLS Residence, on resale for $5.5m. Demand is primarily local....
...The hotel tower will be clad in wood and strewn with gardens, including full-size trees on the upper floors....
...The French botanist, known for his vertical gardens, in particular the extraordinary living façade of Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly, loved the spot, and agreed to create the hotel’s high-rise gardens....
...Tim Hayward ——————————————- GARDENS Great Gardens of America, by Tim Richardson and Andrea Jones, Frances Lincoln, RRP£20 Tim Richardson’s survey of 25 US gardens includes some of my favourites: the...
...Mars turned to the system during the 1961-62 crop, which the confectionery company successfully – and famously – expected would be huge and prices would drop....
...awarded Turkey holds monetary policy meeting Hungarian central bank sets interest rates Brazil releases data on credit growth Arab League finance ministers meet in Baghdad European banking forum in Prague to Mar...
...markets were quite right to panic, John PlenderLex on the case for equities over bondsAnd, the case for isolating Assad From elsewhere: Arab spring, Chinese winter, Atlantic MagazineBangladesh: Price rises mar...
...I buried my library in the garden, wrapped in plastic bags to keep it from the police.”...
...▲ Jacaranda Villas, Arcos Gardens Golf Club & Country Estate, Andalusia, Spain: The Registry Collection How many properties: 10-100 properties in each of 175 resorts....
...It last year decided to spin-off its Madison Square Garden live entertainment and sports franchise division, appeasing shareholders who pushed the operator to break up the company to unlock value....
...A deal with Royal Dutch Shell to buy BP’s minority stake in the Mars field in the Gulf of Mexico has also been discussed....
...The most obvious comparison is Mars’ 2008 acquisition of Wrigley, at 19 times EV/ebitda. Markets were a great deal frothier then, but Cadbury’s growth potential may be higher....
...Until now, however, the Puerto Rican archipelago has slipped under the radar of those searching for a Caribbean property....
...Eerie shells of unfinished apartment blocks mar the skyline of the city, which until last year was caught up in a seemingly unstoppable property boom. Unemployment and street crime have risen....
...InBev is likely to sell the theme parks, which include SeaWorld and Busch Gardens, and insiders say that Blackstone Group’s majority-owned Merlin Entertainment and private equity firm Candover, which owns...
...The New York-based company also owns Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks basketball team....
...Many survive today, still laid out handsomely along irregular cobblestoned streets, fastidiously preserved and complemented by lush gardens....
...“The town of Recas, in the west, is dominated by Scottish-style castles with lions on the gateposts, turrets on the roofs and white marble dwarfs in the gardens....
...As a holiday destination, the state of Yucatán and its neighbour Quintana Roo have it all: a turquoise Caribbean coast and a cerulean Gulf one; proximity to a coral reef second only in size to Australia’...
...An office where I once worked had an ethos uncomfortably close to that of the 1970s police station depicted in the TV drama Life on Mars....
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