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...The Inn’s restaurant, Carbon Beach Club, is an actual beach club, with loungers and umbrellas in the sand....
...“We aren’t beach people so we actually prefer the mountainous location in the hills surrounded by the olive and fruit trees.”...
...One French frigate, L’Oiseau, carted off 18,635 between 1759 and 1761 (as the naturalist Gerald Durrell noted when he described a visit here in 1976)....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...Equally great is the frescoed breakfast room, its trompe l’oeil columns spot-lit, its retro dining chairs painted a cheering shade of red....
...Or Playa del Silencio, aptly named, where dramatic rock formations encircle a lonely beach....
...L’hôtel de Maisons, however, wasn’t the first choice....
...Art Basel has launched a platform for selected works from its Miami Beach fair that require buyers to donate a minimum 10 per cent of the cost to charity....
...afternoon train back to Nantes to explore “La Ville Blanche” (the White City): to stroll its luminescent limestone streets and sniff around its colonnade-fronted shops; to maybe dip a toe at the bijou urban beach...
...During one of the last times I was inside the Grand Palais before its closure in 2021, Lagerfeld laid 266 tonnes of sand to transform it into a beach, complete with enough lapping water to fill a 25m swimming...
...The postcard-pretty port, silhouetted in morning mist, comes into focus as fishermen tether tackle to boats, and barefoot lovers squidge croissants into backpacks on their way to the beach, snorkels tied...
...Cushing – the celebrated American impressionist painter whose work hangs in the Whitney in New York – provided inspiration, as did the whimsical decor of The Ledges, the family home overlooking Bailey’s Beach...
...As the days pass, and the surroundings become more familiar, I find myself unwinding — more than I ever have on a tropical beach....
...Meanwhile, a pair of Arizona Shearlings lined with lamb’s wool sell for €150 in Germany, while a pair of dusty blue synthetic Barbados sandals for the beach will set you back a mere €45....
...Launched in 1992 after its founder Robert Greenberg was forced out of L.A. Gear, another shoe retailer he had founded, Skechers now has a market cap of more than $8bn....
...came up with its Great Gatsby theme for Poland’s richest man in 2010, and watched the yacht become an in-demand charter vessel (starting price: €1mn a week; Magic Johnson hung out on board with Samuel L...
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...Monet “makes us adore a field, a sky, a beach, a river”, wrote Proust. “To draw out the truth and beauty of a place, we must know that they are there to be drawn out....
...Elsewhere, some of the polyglot overlap recalls a beach scene in Britten’s Death in Venice....
...He self-describes as a “big R” Republican and a “little L” libertarian. He’s non-interventionist, but this is not as counterintuitive as it sounds....
...A jelly shoe can take you from the beach – it’s quite rocky, so they’re good for swimming – to a dinner party to… anywhere....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...at Zandvoort became “Amsterdam Beach”....
...News round-up L’Oreal on the lookout for further acquisitions after Aesop, says chief (FT) BNP Paribas faces US fine over messaging violations (FT) Barclays shares slide after earnings reflect fading...
...Equity and racial justice WINNER: Sidley AustinOriginality: 9; Leadership: 10; Impact: 8; Total: 27The property of Bruce’s Beach in California was taken from an African-American family through a racially...
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