Hints and tips:
...On Penang, there are private guided tours of the historic shophouses of George Town, today full of art galleries, artisan boutiques and design studios, and excellent restaurants; you can also grab a map...
...Breakfast on the garden veranda overlooks strutting peacocks and the hum of a city waking up....
...Ang Lama, a Sherpa, is from the village of Phaplu....
...We were selected for the same beautiful village, Norton St Philip, but we were separated. My sister went to the big house while I went to a farm labourer’s home....
...I do the opposite of what most visitors do on the island: I wake up at 6.30am, get a coffee from the village, and later have dinner with some friends....
...Over in Aldeburgh, restaurateur George Pell opened the buzzy L’Escargot Sur-Mer – a sister to his Soho outpost – in the summer of 2020....
...piece the garden cats rub against....
...A 15-minute drive from the glitz of St Tropez, La Croix-Valmer — with a good crop of restaurants, secluded beaches and far cheaper homes than its neighbour — is growing in popularity....
...If business takes you to the City or pilgrimage to St Paul’s Cathedral, go across to the excellently planted gardens in front of the remains of old Christchurch Greyfriars....
...As the new law came into force, it was half painted over in orange and black, the colours of the St George ribbon....
...On cue, the picture shows a clipping from the 1920s, advertising a mock-Tudor semi in “Harrow Garden Village”, on an “ESTATE of OPEN SPACES and CHARMING COUNTRY HOUSES”....
...In Canonbury, an 1891 watercolour of Blackheath Village reveals a sign for Dannatt grocers, while two turn-of-the-century oil paintings (one a landscape, one of a cottage) are by Annie M Dannatt – Adrian...
...last summer in the wake of the killing of George Floyd....
...Who Gustave White, Sotheby’s International Realty Castle, St Croix, US Virgin Islands, $8.9m Where In the south of St Croix, 5km from the town of Christiansted....
...Identified by the breast plate on top of his coffin, he was found along with 40,000 other skeletons buried between 1788 and 1853 at St James Gardens behind Euston station....
...A BlackRock investment in New York’s Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village ended up an embarrassing disaster....
...Why Access to restaurants, shops and Sheffield Botanical Gardens....
...They were copyholders — owners of plots on the margins of the common, on which they had usually built a big house and garden....
...Ali and Rick Miller, who run it, source incredible pieces from special periods, and this locket was once an old watch chain with an image of St George slaying the dragon....
...Georges and Anthony Karam opened Partisan Café Artisanal in the historical Arts et Métiers district....
...Produce from Emilia-Romagna, Sicily, Veneto, Tuscany… famed for its mozzarella and ricotta, plus over 300 other varieties of cheeses served in restaurants including those of Jean-Georges Vongerichten....
...As an avid horticulturist, she also drew on the experience of garden designer and historian George Carter, who also advised on the transformation of the formal 17th-century grounds of her own nearby home...
...Many older cities, of course, have evolved precisely on this model – London, with its web of villages, being a prime example....
...He was horrified by American Flying Fortress bombers destroying Korean villages....
...And I came across a magnificent garden. I was told that a patient of the hospital had created it....
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