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...Smart wood panelling in the premium rooms makes them feel especially luxurious. Bathrooms are relatively modestly sized, but larger ones come with full bath tubs....
...“I have clients who’ll be bidding, who also bid on our Nile Rodgers and David Gilmour collections, and they do play them,” he says....
...“This was probably a mistake,” Wood recalls, given that the loyal creature was their intended Christmas dinner....
...The adjacent woods and wastelands are home to men and boys from Sudan and Afghanistan....
...Once I even came across a textile made of wood, which is processed from the bark of a sakura cherry tree....
...What I haven’t done is float up the Nile from Aswan all the way to Alexandria – they say it takes 13 days. I’d visit the Aswan dam, then sleep in Agatha Christie’s room in the Old Cataract hotel....
...What the Nile is to Egypt, the BAM is to BAM Land, both a highway and a vital artery, sustaining life in a hostile wilderness....
...Haircuts come with tea and toast.” 63 Nile Street, London N1 (020-7251 8023). Alex Eagle, boutique owner“I love Josh Wood in London....
...A place I’d love to return to is The Sofitel Luxor on the Nile in Egypt. Winston Churchill had a room there, and it’s also where Agatha Christie was inspired to write Death on the Nile....
...In the wood preservation laboratory I come across Mohamed Abdel-Kader....
...For the latest updates, read the FT’s coverage of the outbreak After the Nile, the Congo River is the second longest river on the African continent, and by far the deepest....
...Levison Wood, 36, undertook the first expedition to walk the length of the Nile. He has also walked the length of the Himalayas and crossed Madagascar on foot....
...Why The penthouse has an entire “entertainment floor”, featuring a 1,400 sq ft roof terrace with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, a wood-burning fireplace, sunken Jacuzzi and an outdoor shower....
...I should have ordered the local Nile Special. Wine started playing music at a young age and drifted into ragga, a style incorporating both rap and reggae....
...Levison Wood Explorer How are you spending the summer?...
...At Murulle, we boarded a boat and took to the waters of the Omo, the mightiest river in Ethiopia after the Nile, which snakes its way from the highlands for 500 miles before emptying out into Lake Turkana...
...Unremarked in the exhibition, baby Moses is being boated along the Nile above a line of dark and pale blue delphiniums....
...Average development costs have fallen 40 per cent since 2014, according to Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy, encouraging companies to revive investment despite continued weakness in the oil market....
...He was inspired by Alan Bennett, Michael Palin, Victoria Wood, Steve Coogan and James Bond....
...They predict that more gas will be found by other companies exploring concessions in the Mediterranean, such as BP, which expects to bring on stream 1.2bn cubic feet per day by 2017 from its West Nile Delta...
...I’m a bit of an armchair adventurer, so I’m currently reading Walking the Nile by Levison Wood, which is a brilliant book....
...Levison Wood is an explorer and bestselling author who last year completed a nine-month expedition to walk the length of the Nile....
...“Some operators are not waiting,” says Wood Mac....
...After a while, there’s an eruption of splintering wood and he lollops off, crashing into the thickest part of undergrowth. We clamber after....
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