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...Whereas greater Auckland’s east coast tends to white sands and turquoise waters, the west coast, beyond Waitakere Ranges National Park, has to contend with the far rougher Tasman Sea, which powers in from...
...In a valley in the Chevreuse Regional Natural Park, about 45km south-west of Paris, past the clogged-up Boulevard Périphérique and through low-lying industrial areas, there has for centuries been a hidden...
...below the walls of St Andrews Castle, built as the residence of Scotland’s leading bishop in the 12th century....
...Andrew HillSo the Crown Estate has got £15.6bn of property and that includes big chunks of central London, Regent Street, but it also includes commercial parks, retail parks, countryside, and then the Duchy...
...A pipeline of opportunities The Asia Gas Pipeline project was part of a grand undertaking that accelerated a shift of economic power from west to east....
...She also recently sold the musician Sting’s apartment at 15 Central Park West for $50m....
...Who Savills, tel +44 2920 368 930 Drum House, Richmond, London, UK, £7.5m Where Set back from the river Thames next to Richmond Park in south-west London....
...In-the-know safari enthusiasts are instead turning to the country’s far west — accepting the long (and expensive) journey to get there in return for a complete absence of lion-chasing minibuses....
...The country’s 20 priciest streets are all in London, with all but two in west or south-west London....
...The roadshow will speed through Baltimore and Boston before another lunch on Thursday at the Dorchester Hotel, set between rival fast car showrooms on London’s Park Lane....
...Once, the Lowther estate was so vast it was possible to walk across England from St Bees on the west Cumbrian coast to Newcastle upon Tyne on the east without stepping off their land....
...Cricket has been played regularly at the ancestral home, St Giles House in Dorset, since at least the time of the 9th Earl. And it continues now by kind permission of the 12th....
...“If you go to St Bartholomew’s and then walk through Smithfield, it is like walking from one cathedral to another. You wouldn’t pull down St Bartholomew’s, nor should you pull down Smithfield....
...The hard landscaping in St Catherine’s garden is good too – the ruins of the 12th-century chapel....
...The two-storey Georgian apartment overlooks the 12th-century churchyard of St Bartholomew the Great, and is next door to the oldest house in London....
...It is to the west of San Juan, however, that Puerto Rico’s most ambitious projects are now being completed in the resort town of Dorado....
...▲ 385 Solano Prado, Coral Gables, Florida, US, $10.5m Where: South-west of downtown Miami, in Miami-Dade County, overlooking Biscayne Bay....
...“I wasn’t interested in running a trade body,” says Ms Fawcett from a panelled office overlooking St James’s park in central London. “But this is different....
...is always and everywhere the best form of governance – and cautiously suggest that the west can learn a lot from China....
...Between May and September, CityJet will run weekend flights to Avignon and Toulon (close to St Tropez)....
...Driftwood Spars Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall This 17th-century granite-built hotel on the coast has won many accolades for food, beer and accommodation, including four AA stars and the title Cornwall...
...The 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed that King Arthur was crowned and held court there....
...… 13 Grey Mare’s Tail, Selkirkshire Start/Finish: Grey Mare’s Tail car park (NT187145) Length of walk: 2.5 miles Walkers’ pitstop: The Tibbie Shiels Inn, St Mary’s Loch Family rating: Further reading...
...Deciding it was best to ease myself into the dragon’s lair, I began with two nights at Gleneagles, 50 miles to the west of St Andrews in the Ochil Hills....
...It is centred around St Mary’s, a building dating to 1715, when it replaced a 12th-century structure....
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