Hints and tips:
...for the staggering scenery, of course: strapping mountain ranges capped in snow (occasionally even in summer), green-gold plains quilted in meadows and fields, stands of tall poplars shimmering in the sun...
...Betty, a calligraphic artist, is known for her fashion and lifestyle collaborations and her gorgeous studio in a 19th-century limonaia in the Corsi Garden, where she occasionally welcomes guests....
...Three days into the journey, the sun had risen to reveal our latest mooring place....
...But the adjacent attractions tick all the boxes for those keen to spend as much of their holiday as is possible engaged in sun- and sea-bathing....
...His last studio album, in 1988, was the under-appreciated Paradise In Gazankulu, a collection in a contemporary South African pop style, similar to Paul Simon’s Graceland; although unlike Simon, Belafonte...
...Moor up in a remote cove, spend the day swimming and watch as the setting sun turns the mountains gold, then red, then purple....
...The studio itself provided endless inspiration....
...A worried dealer, Joseph Durand-Ruel, visits Giverny to find a studio “crammed with Monet’s last garden series. It is clear that he no longer sees anything and no longer registers colour.”...
...At the Beyeler after 25 years, the sun is still shining. To January 8, fondationbeyeler.ch...
...After our hike above Tagus Cove we watch the sun set in a marmalade blaze before gathering on the bridge to watch the radar while we cross the equator....
...That night I’d booked a table at one of Serena Cook’s tips, Taller Sa Penya by Ibiza Food Studio, a diminutive restaurant in the scruffy former fishermen’s quarter of Sa Penya....
...For grown-ups, there is a yoga studio, a shaded courtyard to escape to with a book and several communal sitting rooms....
...The northern sun has left its winter harbour on the horizon and is sailing in a wide arc across the sky....
...We might mistake this for a luminous and inviting domestic tableau at magic hour, when the low sun slides in through the windows....
...In Isaac Julien’s film Paradise Omeros, a handsome young waiter called Achille moves between parasols on the beach in St Lucia and a brutalist housing estate in London....
...In Boudreau’s words, the visitors come in search of “a piece of that design paradise”....
...Here bladder wrack and sugar kelp, belts of oarweed and carrageen hide deep coves, the fish nurseries of the Atlantic....
...Who Damianos Sotheby’s International Realty Vanuatu, South Pacific, $4.15m Where Paradise Cove, on Vanuatu's main island of Efate; flights to Sydney take about three and a half hours....
...After a boozy beach barbecue, afternoons on these secluded coves were indolent and slow....
...Years ago, I was due to present a New Year’s Eve radio show from a studio near the South Bank....
...AIR Studios, the iconic recording facility set up by Beatles producer George Martin, was smashed beyond repair....
...Summer panoramas of the Seine are backcloths for an account of their transformation by Bonnard into patchworks of luxuriant colour in the Musée de Vernon’s In the Studio....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Earthly Paradise by Colette....
...As my house tour ends, the clouds part, allowing the sun to make its first appearance of the day....
...“The idea of controlling and exploiting the natural drama of the site came from this rocky descent into the cove,” says architect Laura Stephen....
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