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...My husband hustled fishermen for fresh crabs with the villa’s Kenyan host Michael Yona, and learnt to cook Swahili dishes. I didn’t come expecting much more than good value and some reliable sun....
...This year, however, Michael Rutter completed the white-knuckle ride at an average of 121.91mph on a Mugen Shinden Hachi....
...There’s a tiny little Vespa I fancy – it doesn’t look like much, but it’s 300cc and goes like a Ferrari....
...‘Paterson’ is in UK cinemas now Main photograph: Jeff Vespa/Contour/Getty Images...
...I think of Ian Rush, Michael Owen.” The Welsh striker Rush returned from a bad year in Italy in 1988 complaining, “It was like another country.”...
...Mr Yip was soon waiting tables, where he watched and learned, and rode around on a Vespa scooter to immerse himself in the culture....
...stretching from roughly 1950 to 1973, rapid economic growth and social modernisation produced a mass national market in which increasing numbers of Italians drove the same cars (Fiats), rode the same scooters (Vespas...
...I know immediately what they are thinking: that the city is a world of sophisticated European refinement and gloss, high fashion, la dolce vita and chic Italians buzzing around on Vespas....
...In Paris, culinary passion even gets Michael Booth, author of Sacré Cordon Bleu, out of paying a fine on the Métro....
...One side, which was a huge shed that previously housed 3,000 chickens, now provides shelter for a dozen Vespa scooters....
...Piaggio, which has more than a third of the European scooter market and is best known for its Vespa model, said that at €2.30 the share offering was 2.4 times subscribed....
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