Hints and tips:
...The Behshad is registered as an ordinary dry bulk carrier, and outwardly looks like any of the thousands of such vessels that ply the oceans....
...Yeats called her the betrayer of “all living hearts”; Shakespeare, a “strumpet”; Alexander Ross, “a deform’d soul”; Rupert Brooke, “a scold . . . shrill . . . gummy-eyed and impotent”....
...God, if all salads were like that, I’d be happy. Dead, but happy....
...The Iliad tells the story of the war of Troy and of Achilles, the greatest fighter in the Greek army and the man with the shortest fuse....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...She’d go to a decent school, get unspectacular exam results and, if she chose not to be a nurse or a teacher, she’d do a secretarial course and get a decent job in an office....
...As founder of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Gardiner is not just the face of these ensembles, but their entire raison d’être....
...For a few years, La Tour d’Eole, a small, super-elegant ecolodge at the water’s edge, has been the address of choice....
...Here, designer Cho Myung Hee reimagines the ruins of Troy as a curving space, backed by a giant window, dominated by a swooping structure like a modernist bus shelter, and splashed with starry projections...
...A couple of weeks before my Côte d’Azur jaunt, I tried the Manta5 water bike, which has a steering foil in place of a front wheel as well as a larger one at the back....
...Spain’s white-wine game is hitting new heights in the Canary Islands with Suertes del Marques’ Listan Blancos, a highly appetising type of liquid rock that, if I didn’t know better, I’d imagine had seeped...
...Ethan WuLeprechauns across the world were delighted on Friday as gold, the shiny metal we all love, hit an all-time high: $2,152.30 per troy ounce....
...“I’d float around and see things, and have all sorts of experiences. I think my mum thought there was something strange with me!”...
...He’d get irritated by people who designed things and thought ‘that is it’. He wanted people to know how to make things,” says Lady Conran....
...The bartenders ply their trade from a central island, with dark-wood tables and chairs scattered around the room and framed copies of well-known magazine and newspaper covers hanging on the walls and pillars...
...Her personal bespoke order is monogrammed light grey, thick, four-ply notecards with handpainted grey edges and grey tissue paper-lined envelopes....
...For top-level macro market stuff and stock analysis I’d recommend Stephen Clapham and his BehindTheBalanceSheet site, while if you are into the energy sector Doomberg is good reading....
...“There’s no precedent in all of our history for such a rapid warming on such magnitude — we’d be taking the Earth, way, way out of its known ways of operating.”...
...In its first year, Stroll Garden has won the Best Curio Presentation prize at Design Miami and launched Jane Yang-D’Haene and Lily Clark....
...We’d like to say a huge thanks to all those who attended, to the Bond Vigilantes for their kind sponsorship, and to all the staff at Painters’ Hall who helped run such a smooth night....
...cost of living crisis and it’s kind of about these people who are swathed in incredibly expensive fabrics that you wouldn’t otherwise necessarily know that they’re vicuña or, you know, the extra triple-ply...
...“It’s much softer than you’d expect [from a British breed],” says Navygrey’s Rachel Carvell-Spedding, who sources all her Bluefaced fleeces from north-west England....
...If something was overthought he’d say, this is feeling heavy,” says Adron. Murals swirled across walls; ziggurat-shaped screens offset low furniture in wood or vinyl....
...Meet Rylance’s drunken, delusional, drug-dealing outlaw on a dark street and you’d run a mile....
...This is not a deal-breaker for me – I know a lot of unhappy people with big boats, and I’d rather be happy without the boat....
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