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...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...
...Sales of sand and gravel extracted in the US for industrial purposes rose 78 per cent in value last year, well above the 30 per cent rise in volumes, according to the US survey....
...Its 30-hectare expanse is edged in rocky bluff and beach, its interior full of blue gums, and life abounds, from deer and quail to a resident sea eagle or two....
...Our motley collection of guests walk over the stony delta of the Cunningham river to white tents on a bluff. “Welcome to the gravel pit,” says owner Josée Auclair....
...Earlier this year I joined him as he finally made it there, on a reconnaissance trip for his eponymous travel company....
...For the Italian artist Annie Ratti, it lends a calming atmosphere to her London home and studio, renovated by design and research company Material Cultures....
...I flew in via Oslo and, after two-nights in a hostel downtown, booked an overnight in a yurt — known here as a lavvu — with Tromsø Lapland, a Sámi-owned tour company....
...Finnish brand Vaarnii has several pieces of their wooden furniture there, created in local, much-maligned pine....
...San Tommaso SRL, a company which owns property in Forte, confirmed that the Ukrainian president’s family are shareholders....
...Comporta, a traditional rice-growing village on a stretch of surf-lashed beaches backed by sand dunes and pine forests in the Alentejo region, remains something of a Marmite destination....
...Lorries laden with sand and gravel speed down highways, pick-up trucks haul trailers carrying shining new diggers and SUVs cart diesel engines and coils of piping....
...We ate ravioli with scallops and pine nut cream, then fried vegetables with tarragon gelato and beetroot sauce — not cheap, at €55 for two courses, but the most memorable meal of the summer, spiced with...
...Developers are prospecting, and new-build, high-end villas slowly but inexorably appearing in the pines....
...Taiwan imported 5.7mn metric tons of sand and gravel in 2020, with more than 90 per cent coming from China. Natural sand made up 8 per cent of the total, according to government statistics....
...I packed little more than my hiking boots, tent and details of a couple of rental companies for a kayak (the Great Glen Way) and road bike (the NC500)....
...The price of aggregates — which includes sand, gravel and concrete — surged 63.2 per cent in the year to July, while the cost of concrete reinforcing bars rose 37.8 per cent....
...In Valldemossa, I picked up lingering echoes of Chopin at the monastery where he and George Sand spent a holiday from hell over the damp winter of 1838-39....
...There are sea caves hewn from glittering black rock, bald eagles perched high on clifftop pines, inland vales speckled with poppies and lilac asters....
...That night, our last, Soulimane made taguella, a traditional Tuareg bread, baked in the sand beneath a bed of embers....
...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....
...In the winter he burnt bundles of split pine to warm the room as he gazed over the rooftops of the Latin Quarter and away down to the river where you could see the elegant bulk of the Louvre and the golden...
...Alternating spectacular bluffs with woodland and sand trails, the Track can be taken in sections; one, two or four days is often the way to go, to get the best of it, from vineyard visits to refreshing rockpool...
...of thick pine forests have been destroyed....
...After college, Villar quit an accounting job to become a full-time entrepreneur, supplying seafood to restaurants as well as selling gravel and sand, which introduced him to real estate, the sector that...
...The ceremony followed a stroll the two men took in the immaculately manicured Pine Garden at the foot of Baiyun Mountain. It was the culmination of three days of pageantry and spectacle....
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