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...In doing so, they have been increasingly muscling out the traditional Sand Hill Road VC merchants, who like to think they know best how to fund the future....
...The lushness of the island was everywhere. Fertile hills broke out into vineyards, bunched grapes bordering the road....
...Geordin Hill-Lewis, the mayor of Cape Town for the opposition Democratic Alliance, described Ramaphosa’s speech as “a work of fiction”....
...Here, sound bathers lie on a towel-lined heated bed filled with rose quartz, made to resemble the sensation of hot sand on a beach....
...in the treacly sand dunes were made by seagulls....
...sand where the tide goes way, way out, allowing for leisurely strolls in the tidal flats....
...An Oman voyage Hud Hud Travels is known for its mobile camps throughout Oman, from the Selma Plateau in the eastern Hajar Mountains to the remote desert of Wahiba Sands....
...Didar’s second funeral took place on December 19, among the rolling, sand-coloured hills of Maidan Wardak province, 35 miles west of Kabul....
...to the nearby hills....
...Hiking paths weave across its flanks, leading over to the wind-bullied sands of Stinson Beach or down through the cool primeval silence of Muir Woods....
...By far the worst holiday of my life was on a Greek island with my husband and children. The Aegean Sea lapped the sand just below the veranda of the simple house we’d rented....
...I can picture myself now, propped on one of the snoozing stations in the corner of a pool, trailing a hand in the water. Or was it a flipper?...
...That night, our last, Soulimane made taguella, a traditional Tuareg bread, baked in the sand beneath a bed of embers....
...The Capella, on a nicely landscaped hill, enjoys one of the best vantages, in two late 19th-century Tanah Merah colonial barracks joined by a sinuous extension courtesy of Foster + Partners....
...Powerpoints and paella: a junior analyst’s paradise Málaga: home of Pablo Picasso, golden sand beaches, and — eventually — 30 Citigroup employees....
...Normally we’re all for anyone who rattles Sand Hill Road but judging by the performance of venture capital funds in the first quarter, something has gone very seriously wrong of late....
...After a cruel series of hills along the sweltering coast road, I slumped to the floor of my hotel room clutching a cold beer — and memories of a mountain like no other....
...Nikopol’s beach, a short strip of sand backed by a playground, was fenced off and mined to thwart a possible Russian amphibious assault....
...Sebald’s prose has a dreamlike quality — so too the station he describes is eerie and fantastical, and hard to conceive of beyond the pages of a book....
...We wheel our bikes on to the golden beaches at Camber Sands, where we have an ice cream and a chilly dip....
...As I wait for the service to begin, I track down Reverend Brian Mowrey, one of Walnut Hill’s lead pastors....
...The dense rasping of cicadas. Watching four ants go to town on a peach stone. The dampening corners of a packet of cigarettes. The distant cry of “Jawohl!” as a beach volleyball thuds into the sand....
...Unlike the rolling hills of Galilee beyond Nazareth, Norfolk is a land untroubled by contours. It is perfect for cycling....
...Hampstead Heath station opened in 1860, connecting the heath to the East End via what is today the London Overground....
...His direct, incisive portraits, and those of his colleagues — Neil Kenlock, chronicling the Black Panther movement; Charlie Phillips’ crystalline close-ups of mixed race couples in Notting Hill; Horace Ové...
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