Hints and tips:
...Set back from the beach, semi-hidden in the umbrella pines and dunes, it’s a quieter alternative to its sister property, Gecko Beach Club, Marugal’s beacon of feet-in-the-sand revelry a few hundred yards...
...“We want to scale up these materials, to make them economically viable,” says co-founder Laurens Bekemans....
...“But Ecowas has drawn a line in the sand. Defence planners have been tasked to plan an intervention — it’s not bluff.”...
...Cedar is best, but pine or spruce work well too....
...Deserts — Arctic or sand — are fantastic places to get in touch with who you are....
...To May 7, southbankcentre.co.uk...
...Finnish brand Vaarnii has several pieces of their wooden furniture there, created in local, much-maligned pine....
...An Oman voyage Hud Hud Travels is known for its mobile camps throughout Oman, from the Selma Plateau in the eastern Hajar Mountains to the remote desert of Wahiba Sands....
...Tree rings reveal historic cycles of fire: every 100 years or so in much of the boreal forest, less than 10 years in the longleaf pine forests of Florida. Humans, too, co-evolved with fire....
...Graydon Carter is the founder and co-editor of Air Mail....
...It’s a steep but lovely walk down to the sand (where you can hit the Beach Store for your morning flat white, and Charlie Farley’s for your sunset drinks). coastandcountry.co.nz, from about £480 a night...
...Developers are prospecting, and new-build, high-end villas slowly but inexorably appearing in the pines....
...From £285, harbourhotels.co.uk...
...three scoops, or take your favourite home by the half litre. fryst.net Rosanna Dodds Island Gelato, Auckland Waiheke Island is renowned for its sprawling vineyards, cliff-top coastal walks and white-sand...
...Now we know,” says Philippe Lamberts, the co-head of the Greens in the European parliament. “She has given Europe a voice and a face.”...
...Pudding was a pine nut-rich cassata of buffalo ricotta....
...It had to have been heartbreaking,” says Bryan Richards, emerging disease co-ordinator at the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center....
...“China only procures sand and gravel locally for construction projects,” said Nasir Sohrabi, president of Gwadar’s Rural Community Development Council....
...I stayed at the 18th-century Villa Eldorado, on a bluff above Chiaia beach, in a flat called “La Casa di Elsa”, after Elsa Morante, the 20th century novelist whose seminal Arturo’s Island is set here....
...The estate was never built; the road — now gravel and mud — is the principal cycle route on the heath, and the viaduct dreamily traverses nothing more than a green duck pond....
...It’s an instantly bucolic place of jade pastures, clunking cowbells and fragrant pine forests, and has been a Dolomite staple since the earliest days of tourism....
...They’ve spent the day exploring the sand dunes further west, and when I arrive they’re back in the water....
...When you get there, reward yourself with a fish taco and one of the local IPAs in the garden at Hook Fish Co. You earned it....
...With 2km to go, we obeyed the computer’s instruction to turn off the road, and found ourselves on a winding gravel track that suddenly dropped into a desert-like canyon....
...bed, deep down would pine for the silence and the stars....
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