Hints and tips:
...A sword based on Charlemagne’s “Joyeuse” hangs from his left hip, while his brow is crowned with the gilded laurels of the Caesars....
...Hlobo, who could have rested on his laurels, says that being part of the Biennale had already taught him something: to be humble and keep his ego in check....
...Students never travelled to Cape Town for the programme’s big differentiator: an immersive social enterprise module in the city’s townships....
...From Mill Valley, head up and over Camino Alto to get the blood racing, then wend your way northwards through the quaint and affluent townships of San Anselmo and Fairfax....
...In the near distance, Mount Teide (3,715 metres), Tenerife’s very own Fuji, loomed up through the billowing waves of cloud....
...They’d send you a bag of Laurel Canyon dirt to promote Joni Mitchell, or sell you two-LP samplers of assorted Warner artists for $2 in the hopes you’d buy their full-length ones for the regular price....
...Mount Silpius....
...States that were already financially stretched have been hit by the sudden stop of global economic activity, depriving them of the wherewithal to mount anything like a western-style response....
...But just before midnight last Tuesday, the Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town was the site of an audacious armed robbery, one of the most shocking examples yet of the surge in violent crime in a city long known...
...Thapelo Maphoto, who owns a car-repair shop in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, is sad but not surprised that South Africa’s main opposition party has lost its first black leader....
...But while the spectacular volcanic scenery, laurel forests and coastal cliffs have long drawn hippies, hikers and surfers seeking some winter sun to Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands has since...
...Lake McKay Station, Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand, NZ$35m (US$25m) Where On the South Island, 11km from the township of Wanaka....
...As the city braced itself, Washington pondered on the voluptuous blossom of rhododendron, the sculptural flowers of mountain laurel and the perfect pink of crab apple....
...It is above all a metropolitan, sophisticated, very glamorous, utterly contemporary hotel entirely different in mood and aesthetics from, say, the quiet grandeur of the Mount Nelson, the classic elegance...
...There is little scope for motor insurer Admiral, which owns Confused, to mount a demerger of its own. Wigton to the world Cumbrian exports include Kendal Mint Cake and Stan Laurel....
...That discontent has recently manifested itself in a wave of looting, targeting scores of foreign shops in townships, during which at least five people died, and a series of violent protests against the poor...
...So now is no time for the west to rest on its laurels....
...The Mount Nelson Hotel, meanwhile, has linked up with Footsteps to Freedom walking tours....
...Next came a cover of Pat Metheny’s “James”, its sunrise theme suspended over the bustle of David Wong’s figured bass and Haynes’ hint of township lilt, and then the saxophonist introduced the ballad “Easy...
...Many of the walks follow routes linking ancient sites – from the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon to the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, for example, or over Mount Parnassus to Delphi....
...Directly behind us the austere, stately silhouette of Mount Teide, the tallest mountain in Spain, rose out of the water, exerting a malevolent magnetic pull on our foaming stern....
...Strange Shores , by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 The king of Icelandic crime fiction is not resting on his laurels, as the valedictory Strange Shores proves...
...Investors’ other big beef is with the bank’s dividend policy and what many see as Botín’s obstinacy in maintaining a payout even as bad debts mount at home and abroad, weakening profits....
...I presume Her Majesty and her designers are aware of the FT’s opinions but the choice was guided by other reasons. Evereste recalls the climbing of Mount Everest in the coronation year....
...We take Wenhaston Lane and turn right towards Laurel Farm to turn away from the river in the direction of the higgledy-piggledy, pink- and yellow-shaded village of Wenhaston....
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