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...I sit on my balcony and watch the sunset gild the surrounding pines....
...I like the old-school corded phones, 15cm Disney characters and piggybanks, as well as branded ashtrays and bar trays....
...They contrast beautifully with the concrete blocks of my brutalist-style house, and the landscape of red Ibizan earth and dark-green pines....
...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....
...The French-Australian family has bought a five-bedroom art deco style townhouse with a garden annexe in the Ornano district....
...This is a marble-clad slice of Italy in Bangkok’s upscale shopping district, Wattana....
...Pudding was a pine nut-rich cassata of buffalo ricotta....
...The Lake District is still fiercely fought over....
...If you need to turn the hipster level way down, there’s the basic but reasonably priced Tradewinds Apartment Hotel on Pine Tree Drive....
...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....
...A riding school offers lessons....
...Its three locations in LA’s buzzy Sycamore district attract an equally buzzy clientele, such as Diane Keaton and Ellen Degeneres....
...I take one of the paths that snake up a steep bluff of rock beneath a canopy of elms. Long neglected, the park used to have a reputation as a no-go area....
...The projects on show across nine rooms include Architectural Democracy, a project that uses modular design and minimalistic renovation to turn a 115-year-old abandoned school in the outskirts of Helkinsi...
...Cities, even in their modish quarters — In Sheep’s Clothing fringes the LA arts district — answer to the wants and needs of mid-life above either youth or dotage....
...Russia has also yet to pass measures that would compensate or rehouse people who live near new landfill sites, said Boris Morgunov, dean of the ecology faculty at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics....
...We are sitting in Hamo, a low-key restaurant in Seoul’s upmarket Gangnam district, serving highly refined takes on Korean cuisine....
...At a busy corner of the gentrified SoMa district, it looks like a cheerfully decorated industrial car park....
...Now he is reported to have bought the city’s most expensive penthouse atop the Guoco Tower in the Tanjong Pagar financial district....
...Out behind the main Salk campus, in a greenhouse that sits on the bluff, row after row of Arabidopsis are absorbing the California sun....
...The words say “pine spring” in Chinese. “That is because I was painting a pine tree and a spring at the time,” Gao laughs....
...Born in 1963 to a journalist father and book publisher mother, Kagge struggled at school in Oslo. “I was a loser at school, a bottom-three pupil, I think, in every class I attended for 10 years.”...
...You may think you are prepared, with your ultra-light down gilets and ankle boots, your vague memory of a school performance of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, your last-minute listen to Sting’s 1985 classic “Russians...
...It is not unusual to hear people across the sectarian divide hark back to Saddam’s era; not that they pine for the dictator, but because they miss order and stability....
...In their influential 1998 article “Welcome to the Experience Economy”, American consultants Joseph Pine and James Gilmore argued that a marketable experience occurs “when a company intentionally uses services...
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