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...Our ship, Le Commandant Charcot, was travelling 6,561 nautical miles — the equivalent of two transatlantic crossings — from Ushuaia, Argentina to Lyttleton, New Zealand....
...The final few miles of the line and the rebuilt terminus at Euston will take at least another 10 years to complete....
...The new trains will be 400 metres long, carrying more than 1,000 people and travelling at over 225 miles per hour....
...Our cook is Laddawan Thurston of Oli’s Thai in Oxford....
...We have considered a broad range of factors including the scale, complexity and site logistics of HS2 and environmental requirements demanding increased management, including many miles of tunnels to protect...
...Mark Thurston, the chief executive, is Britain’s highest paid civil servant, and was paid £651,488 last year....
...In Doug Aitken’s Station to Station, a movie composed of 62 one-minute films, each recording an artistic “happening” that took place on a 4,000-mile train ride across the US, there is a section devoted to...
...It could even be one of the pair that last month were filmed lolloping across the 2-mile-long bridge. Out of curiosity I order “cookies” from the room service menu....
...An owl hoots in the woods nearby and far above is the silent blinking light of an aeroplane en route to Gatwick, just a few miles away....
...Miles Davis wore khakis. But of course so, when he was apprehended, did Lee Harvey Oswald. In keeping with the tradition, bring a weapon....
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