Hints and tips:
...Things I’ve enjoyed this week I have mainly been readjusting to having a kitchen after a period of building work, including rediscovering the excellent Rukmini Iyer books....
...We booked into Chilvers’ favourite B&B, Lince Casa Rural, with antique, sun-bleached chairs, a beautiful library and bedroom windows flung open to the sound of hooves and stables below....
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...By the time the band stopped playing, “Into Action” had been cued by a rumble of drums, “Poles” by dense clusters of free-form piano and the insistent R&B-inflected “Nope” by funky Fender Rhodes....
...“Sanofi has done well with dengue,” says Jayasree Iyer, executive director of Access to Medicines....
...Pico Iyer Discovery: a burger in Bhutan Just inside Cloud 9 in Thimphu was a blackboard describing salads made of tofu, eggplant and other goodies straight from the farm....
...Even at the start of August, there was an appealing sleepiness about the whitewashed villages strung along the coast road, with their scattering of B&Bs and “surf lodges”....
...Except that when I – nervously – checked the price, I found that even the four suites with their own private plunge pools cost little more than the mediocre B&B I endured in London this summer....
...Riskier triple-B rated tranches of CLOs in Europe have seen spreads leap from 850bp to 1,800bp, according to Merrill Lynch....
...Fortunately, Luyuan had a plan B: a former colleague had offered her a chance to run a fruit stand with him in Shanghai....
...Recovering from his all-night bidding contest with Brazil’s CSN over Corus, B. Muthuraman sat down for a coffee at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai on Wednesday morning....
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