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...The first few days of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival felt a little quiet to many attendees in Park City, Utah....
..., and is ideal for winter walking through cloud forest, mountain gorges, banana groves and coastal trails....
...To this day, horticulturalists seek out trees for breeding that have high concentrations of chemicals that our noses find pleasant....
...Within years, Grant was bankrupt and dead, having lost millions in a Utah silver mine fraud....
...Hall’s special envoy for smart cities....
...The architect has taken the image of the grove rather than a single tree as his metaphor and created a decoration as shelter....
...A lovely shortcut there is to take the tree-lined grove of Lovers’ Walk, which runs between Gallery Road and College Road....
...Born in 1952 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Christensen was a devout Mormon who became a prominent leader in his church — in all respects: at 6ft 8in, he towered over most people....
...Bar Pisellino in the West Village (on the corner of Grove and Seventh Avenue). Perfect any time of day, from morning espresso or coffee to aperitivo....
...“It’s very sustainable – there are thousands of acres of olive groves and lots of furniture that is broken down for reuse,” he says....
...The favourite destinations are cheap, pleasant college towns near large airports, such as Provo, Utah, home of Brigham Young University — which is situated in “the best metro area for jobs in 2017”....
...Surrounded by orange groves, its fruit was famed around the world. The bride was abandoned when almost all of its 100,000 or so inhabitants fled, its orange groves long since built over....
...There is the Pleasant Goat merry-go-round, and even a “Dishney” bouncy castle....
...A visitor to Monument Valley in Utah wouldn’t just be in it for a bit of undefined “adventure”, something to enjoy and then gradually forget about two weeks later; travelling to the place would be an occasion...
...But summer — with its 19 or so hours of sunshine and a sea warmed by the Gulf Stream to be surprisingly warm for northern Europe — is especially pleasant for visitors to Oslo....
...“One concern is making sure it doesn’t let the government off the hook,” Mr Groves said....
...Catmull, a PhD student from the University of Utah, nurtured the dream of making the first computer-animated movie....
...Just ask the smug Norsemen, who called themselves the Grænlendingafor the lush and pleasant island they farmed for 500 years, before relinquishing it to the advancing ice some time after 1408....
...Details: Ski Safari ( www.skisafari.com ) can arrange packages combining The Canyons with any of Utah’s other resorts....
...In England the garden city movement founded by Ebenezer Howard has remained a seemingly irresistible trope, with its vision of small houses in pleasant suburban settings, a reaction to the fearsome slums...
...A great place for Mexican food is the farmers’ market next to The Grove shopping mall on 3rd street and Fairfax....
...Barack Obama becoming President was a more pleasant surprise....
..., give the countryside a pleasant air of green wildness....
...Suzhou, a fast-growing city west of Shanghai, is prosperous with good shopping, wide streets and pleasant grey-tiled, low-level, whitewashed buildings....
...“People try to convince themselves” that living outside San Francisco itself is pleasant and “there are some militant East Bayers”, says one pharmaceutical executive who has lived in the better known city...
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