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...Here we moored, stepping ashore on sand so soft and fine it squeaked under our feet like fresh snow....
...unforgettable, starting from the turnoff from Highway 1 in Big Sur (good luck finding it; many visitors don’t), which winds down through the primeval pines, sycamores and ferns of Los Padres National Forest, past creeks...
...Instead of terminating in violence, the new novel radiates out from it: the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in south-east Colorado, where perhaps as many as 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women,...
...While the farm sells several varieties of oysters, I go for the flagship Island Creek Oyster....
...My day has been full of wonders and I’m gazing at a blue-on-blue seascape, cut only by a slash of white sand....
...Family friends have an idyllic cabin next to this creek, which I hear at night when I visit them. Sand Creek brings me back to my land, to where I’m from....
...In the meantime, without further interference, the underlying sands have shifted back to their natural position, more or less....
...While on Tinos, one of the northernmost islands in the group and still comparatively undeveloped, 77-room Odera (oderatinos.com) opens in May above a secluded pale sand beach....
...Another described its financing of a company building an oil sands pipeline in the face of opposition from indigenous people as “sustainability linked”....
...Its name was etched on the window in a jaunty sand-coloured scrawl. The faded brown-and-yellow striped awning was reminiscent of St Tropez in the 1950s and ’60s....
...Street, this flat 1.5km-long road heads west to Alma Street, where the cyclist looking for a longer ride can continue to head west towards Jericho Beach and Spanish Banks — a long, north-facing stretch of sand...
...Like Trafalgar Square, the NPG has a mission to represent a version of British history; like Leicester Square, it is endlessly reinventing itself in the shifting sands between celebrity, culture, culture...
...We find it on James-Joyce-Strasse after searching a series of hushed plazas....
...Look to Dune Camp: lo-fi, low-impact, plank floors and canvas walls, and waking to the rising sun pouring across mile after empty mile of sand. wolwedans.com, from about £470 per person per night in high...
...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....
...“If you have, let’s say, one grain of sand inside, the cable will fail,” says Frank de Wild, senior consultant in power cables at the consultancy DNV....
...We ate delicious burgers on the beach with our feet in the sand. The best souvenir I’ve brought home are vanilla beans from Tahiti....
...On a clear day, from his office in Boulevard Plaza, a stone’s throw from the Burj Khalifa, he can see the Palm Jumeirah, a man-made archipelago in the shape of a palm tree lined with luxury villas....
...Despite the sentimental premise, the show adopts an enjoyably breezy touch, with the same heartfelt tone and tickling humour that made Schitt’s Creek and the platform’s own Ted Lasso such unassuming hits...
...You pass two new developments on the walk — Talaia Plaza Ecoresort, a collection of densely packed cabins whose eco credentials seemed, when I toured it, scant at best, and between it and a dilapidated villa...
...The village of Balmoral, south-west of Sydney, has been decimated by the Green Wattle Creek firestorm....
...When not driving a taxi to pay his bills, Savitt’s bands made appearances at such storied venues as CBGB and Irving Plaza....
...From £550; lundies.scot Discovering Sardinia’s interior secrets on foot White sand, limpid sea: the key signifiers of Sardinia, as most know it....
...Only feet away, boys were bathing in the sea — no beaches are private here — while schoolchildren in saffron headscarves trooped behind their teacher across the sand....
...The old town, with its many gorgeous wind towers, was being smashed to smithereens, and the creek, a vital trading post for centuries, was being redeveloped to accommodate the tourist age....
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