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...“I don’t know,” he replies, before quickly adding: “I would rather have 10 $100bn companies.”...
...“I feel sick about how much I like this carpet,” posted Alexa Chung on Instagram when she stayed there overnight. In the hands of young decorators, carpets are being reanointed....
...Or sea snail and fermented green gooseberries. I’m still ambivalent about turning 40, but I’d do it all over again for a two-star dinner in Ilimanaq....
...Scantily clad twenty-somethings spill out of bars until the wee hours, including Memory Motel — the one that inspired the Rolling Stones song — and The Surf Lodge, the polarising haunt famed for its unreliable...
...I love the Dezer family and I love the location.’”...
...It was just stuff that had been like left at a motel on a highway and it was really irritating....
...Staggering out, I drive down to Badwater, at 282 feet below sea-level the lowest point in North America. Salt covers the valley floor and the cool winter sun makes kaleidoscopes on the valley walls....
...It flows north to the Arctic Circle, then turns west to the Bering Sea....
...A sighing sea, sand between your toes and the violent tangerine colours of a sub-tropical sunset – all the while sipping a chilled mojito....
...An hour’s drive from the upmarket nightclubs and golf courses of Palm Springs, the Salton Sea offered a yacht club, motels, water-skiing, and — after the waters were stocked with shad, orangemouth corvina...
...Looking around at the sea of people bedding down in their orange bags in Trafalgar Square, I was humbled by what these 1,500 people were doing that night but also very conscious that we could all go home...
...A new song, “Son of the Sea”, details why: “I got married to my wife, she’s lovely/And I had a son/Giving birth nearly killed me/Some say I died.”...
...He fixed his lens on decrepit motels and awkward couples; his subjects ran the gamut from tawdry to tacky....
...“I lost friends over it.” Luckily for Jack, he had support....
...On the first morning of my trans-American drive, there I was on the motel forecourt with the bonnet up and my phone in my filthy fingers, with “Where do you put oil in a Model T?”...
...“Just sit down and tell them, ‘John’s mom said, feed me.’ ” I stayed in Arco, at a motel flanked by derelict stores and gas stations, another Pompeii of America’s small-town pomp....
...So North Sea cod is glazed in miso and served in dashi broth, and salmon is exotically spiced....
...At dawn the front was deserted, the sea flat as mercury in the early-morning calm....
...I know it is coming and we have nowhere to put all these people”....
...In truth it was this, rather than farmers and food makers, that I had come to see — an unremarkable 1960s motel transformed by designer Anna Spiro, its beachy, boho look somehow both nostalgic and contemporary...
...I remember stepping out of my room in a little motel on Easter Island and just walking across its empty lawns to where the sea crashed against black volcanic rocks....
...They thought at first that I, this stranger who had parked his hire car facing the sea and strolled over for a chat, was from the provincial capital St John’s; a government snooper come to check up on fishing...
...“There is a romance in bottles but I wanted to communicate the romance of wine in kegs. I like clean things.” Kegs also offer the advantage of precise temperature control....
...“I couldn’t believe it – I felt like I had to bring the competition there myself.” He set out to do just that, battling bureaucracy to obtain permits for gourmet food stands along the boardwalk....
...She knows her market intimately – which is one reason why locals are calling the project “Groucho-on-Sea”, despite there being no formal link with the Soho club....
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