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...A short stroll away on nearby Viru Tänav, on 2 and 10 December, musicians and dancers from the Tallinn School of Music and Ballet can be found performing in the windows of the shops....
...“Families are also attracted here by the schools — particularly Americans, who come for the American School,” she says....
...His flat is big enough to accommodate a grove of full-size olive and lemon trees. He is a militant supporter of building more high-rise architecture in Manchester....
..., a leafy, chichi residential district in the southern end of the city....
...A cool $50mn has been spent transforming its 68 rooms, now an essay in white oak and woven textiles in homage to the town’s Bauhaus associations....
..., oak and cypress trees and dusty tracks via a surprising citrussy and spicy creation....
...Roads south of Churchfield Road — especially Grove Road, Grove Place, Alfred Road and Burlington Gardens — are in the catchment area of Ark Priory Primary Academy, another highly regarded school....
...’s Queen’s Gate, Islington’s Highbury Crescent and Camberwell Grove....
...Forgive the cliché, but what I saw made me think of the old-school popes, the ones with girlfriends....
...Druids practised rituals in oak groves, ancient kings wore crowns of oak leaves and the tree is a national symbol of strength....
...It is now happily run as a hotel, but the listed building still holds its original shape, with slanting floors, winding staircases and ceilings propped up by oak beams....
...It takes almost an hour and a half for one single samba school to slowly parade by, with the same song on repeat. Then you must brace yourself the next one. And the next one....
...Inside, locals and guests alike mingle in The Lobby: a thing of architectural beauty, with steel rods, high concrete arches and undulating curves of red oak, offset by thick carpets and low-lying sofas....
...Just above the main gondola in Crans, with 78 rooms all with terraces or balconies facing the final turn of the Chetzeron piste, it has a contemporary take on a chalet aesthetic — lots of larch, oak, quartzite...
...“Everything started with the ceiling beams,” says Valentina – massive rough-hewn oak lengths that were left uncovered....
...The location, right across the river from Robertson Quay, is ideal for foodies (there’s a plethora of good eats within walking distance, from high-end Neapolitan pizza to old-school chilli crab), runners...
...In place of Virgil, my guide is taxi driver Stefano: the car zigzags higher, ears go pop, groves of olive and cypress give way to the realm of hornbeam, alder and oak....
...At a Louis Vuitton store in Oak Brook, Illinois, 14 people stuffed large plastic bags with clothing and other goods worth more than $120,000 in November....
...The popularity of the schools has led to a construction boom. Premium villas are priced at Won3bn-Won10bn ($2.5m-$8.4m), much higher than glitzy apartments in Seoul’s wealthy Gangnam district....
...Seeking somewhere rural yet close to amenities in West Yorkshire, yoga teacher Kirsten Agar Ward has just moved from Bath to the hamlet of Studley Roger in the Harrogate district....
...He was sitting in his plush office, with its spongy carpets, leather swivel chair and solid oak desk, surrounded by framed diplomas and holiday photos....
...But today, its 142 square miles of beech, holm oak and chestnut trees put on a display of some of Italy’s greatest colours every autumn....
...three of the capital’s best independent day schools, Godolphin and Latymer, St Paul’s Girls’ School and Latymer Upper School....
...The public face of the city is on screen — a Tube rattles along the above-ground tracks of night-time Ladbroke Grove....
...A collection of “designposts”, carved forms in red oak conceived by 10 students from London design and architecture schools, are distributed across the city....
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