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...We meet some of the main players, such as Craige Els’ enjoyable, irascible Geldof, Jack Shalloo’s milder Midge Ure and Joel Montague’s sceptical Harvey Goldsmith....
...Some things about Scotland are well known: it rains a lot, and there are lots of midges. I don’t think anyone grows to love midges – certainly not me....
...“They’re the best cannoli in all of Sicily,” says Alfio Puglisi, one of our hosts, as we huddle outside a pasticceria in the town of Taormina hoovering up a plate of pastries....
...My husband and I are also fans but that wasn’t why we’d come to Taormina. We were here because of the Greeks....
...They eat 10-20 per cent of their bodyweight in greenfly, whitefly, flies, midges and just about every other garden insect every day....
...You can expect to find the biggest throngs in Taormina, where the series’ second season was filmed at the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace....
...The final series offers a window into mid-century workplace culture when Midge is hired as “the lady writer” on a late night talk show. It’s 😱 (Amazon Prime)....
...At the ferry terminal in the morning, while feet tapped anxiously at the bottom of midge-bitten ankles as we waited to find out whether the ferry was coming to get us, I sat across from three of the most...
...A report in 2020 led by researchers at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research found the number of midges was growing....
...’d set off to explore boggy, boulder-strewn moorland where cottongrass quivered in the breeze, skim stones across resoundingly silent mountain lochs and — despite the fine, drenching rain, the swarming midges...
...The Thinking Traveller says Sicily is currently its fastest-booking destination, with the White Lotus driving demand across the island rather than just in Taormina....
...I think of the Kardashians’ Capri weddings, the Taormina of the White Lotus....
...The first time we meet Portia, the twenty-something personal assistant of American heiress Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge) in the second season of The White Lotus, she is on a boat bound to Taormina...
...Three years ago he finally settled in Taormina, where he bought an apartment. The pandemic prompted Roberts to explore the island further....
...Prime property in the most desirable tourist areas such as Taormina, an ancient clifftop town on Sicily’s east coast, and Ortigia, an island joined to the Sicilian mainland at Syracuse, can cost around €3,000...
...I like to stay at The Cove, which has pretty little cabanas on the beach, but there’s also The Other Side, a solar-powered glamping site – watch out for midges....
...Chanel is popping up in Bodrum and St Tropez, while Dior is bringing its beachy Dioriviera collection to seasonal stores in Taormina, Montauk and Mykonos....
...“Boss Kett” and “Midge” became an unstoppable duo, writes Sharon Bertsch McGrayne in her book Prometheans in the Lab. “What do you want me to do next, boss?” Midgley would ask....
...But as owner Stefania Taormina and her husband Pietro Franz prepare to welcome the first diners since December back into their 4-metre-wide eatery in Brixton on Monday, Taormina fears they may not return...
...” Midge, a Japanese version which she acquired for $4,500 at the annual 2017 Barbie convention in Houston....
...That much is the point, director Tyler Taormina’s witty debut a wilful scramble of nostalgia trips....
...I do not want midges in my underpants. In late summer, meadows are messy. They are fine for farmers, but this book focuses on them only at their best....
...But many British give it a miss entirely; they make instead for Taormina, or the chicer-every-year Val di Noto, below Syracuse....
...I suppose they could have slept in the house, but it was a few yards away and they might not have been able to react in time if the first family were attacked by a midge or a Scottish Nationalist....
...A rift is threatened when Susie wishes to upgrade from being a one-client agent to Susie Myerson Associates — Midge throws a tantrum at her new signing....
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