Hints and tips:
...We booked a restaurant-with-rooms, The White Lion Inn at Cray — a former drovers’ inn that dates back to the 14th century and was recently renovated in tweeds and sages....
...IJmeer, whose rippling surface informed the choice of a Dutch-grown tulipwood moire veneer with an undulating grain for the bedheads, their baroque edges carved to evoke waves....
...It was a long-held dream for Orrock, who had spent the past decade in advertising, and McKenzie, who left a seven-year stint at The River Café....
...And then, abruptly, I’m at the edge of the open moor....
...Together we choose cutting-edge MDs and PhDs who receive awards for research focused on the next generation. We fund unproven ideas so they can take risks....
...This year, both of them were at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, a multistorey complex at the edge of the water that has in the past two years been emerging as a new arts cluster in its own right: SAM moved into...
...Netherlands Just over half an hour by bike (10km) from the Rijksmuseum on the banks of the Ijmeer lake lies the village of Durgerdam, home to about 430 people and, from the spring, a lakeside gastronomic inn...
...It feels very Brideshead, standing in the river in front of the house’s perfectly proportioned Georgian facade, lawn running down to the river’s edge....
...You expect me to go to these places and apply my concert-tuned palate to the most cutting-edge gastronomy....
...faultless classic cocktails, which are mixed in a sunken bar at the edge of the precipice....
...A convenient half-hour hop from the family home, the 30-room 16th-century inn sits on the edge of the Cuckmere River in the bucolic South Downs village of Alfriston....
...Down in the west lies the old road, still known as Woden’s Way, and beyond, the Warren House Inn on the lonely Postbridge road....
...The celebrated engineer Thomas Telford was hired to push a new route up the hill to the town centre’s many inns....
...Run in partnership with the celebrated winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown, the resort has 85 rooms and suites, and in time there will be “farmhouse villas” to rent too....
...They included Alastair Little in Soho and The River Cafe in Hammersmith (Belben and Eyre admired both)....
...The river regroups in a dark gorge, and then drifts into a forest-fringed corner pool where the foam, whipped up and tinged yellow by peat, gathers at the furthest edge....
...Finally, we turned inland, following the Firtina (literally “storm water”) river up a deep wooded valley....
...As for the valley’s western edge, it more or less finishes at the seaside town of Lyme Regis....
...I think about this as I peer over the edge of a hot tub in the far north of Sweden, gazing out over the icy wastes of the Lule river and reaching for the frozen grapes I’ve been brought by spa therapist...
...There has been a fashion of late to sing the praises of “wild swimming” – of brisk, rejuvenating laps around chilly lakes and rivers....
...This south-western edge of Germany offers more than simple forest fare....
...For a classier Christmas, head west to the city’s historic royal and mercantile heart along the Chao Phraya River....
...Meanwhile, most of the regulatory “fixes” being discussed merely nip at the edges of a massive problem....
...Tucked into a narrow river valley with a rushing waterfall, its quaint wooden houses look across at one another over the River Ginzan, magically lit up at night in the snow....
...For times and ticket prices, see ferry.nyc Disappointment: It’s more sad than disappointing but the Fiddichside Inn on Speyside has closed due to the death of Joe Brandie, the publican....
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