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...You can drive there in an hour from Milan and walk along the lakefront, from Villa Taranto and its botanical gardens to the restaurant. It’s marvellous....
...Many Russians have also bought vacation homes and villas in Turkey, reducing the need for hotels, while other destinations in the Middle East and Asia have thrown open their doors to them....
...The 70-acre Little St James, which Epstein acquired in 1998, is the more developed of the two islands, with a helipad, a main compound, guest villas and other amenities....
...Marina Gio, a restaurant a short drive from the villa, fulfilled the brief perfectly....
...Remember this phrase: “It’s not a vacation; it’s a family trip.”...
...That job was a villa outside Rome, and it was really more of a palace....
...Our villa, which is enormous without being grand, has both a water slide and a huge infinity pool....
...“I think what’s unique about this, as opposed to going on a vacation or just a hike, is that it really pushes you to the edge of yourself,” says Spengler....
...From $250 per night; retreat.homesteadmodern.com Seaside villas: low-fi in Sweden, hi-luxe on Corfu Ready to recoup that deferred villa holiday?...
...Unable to afford a home in Paris, where she and her husband lived, the couple bought a holiday home in Bellac in 2019, where she had spent vacations for eight years....
...More to the point, would you head to a luxurious Spanish villa and allow yourself to be photographed, repeatedly, painting outdoors like your political hero, Winston Churchill, another enthusiastic amateur...
...Hotel villas Private villas within the grounds of luxury hotels are enjoying a Covid-linked surge in demand, according to Jules Maury, head of Scott Dunn Private....
...Sundance is an adorable wood wagon that has been cleverly upcycled into a vacation bolthole that’s perfect for one or two....
...All travel is political right now — from the questions of privilege that allow vaccinated tourists to vacation midst-pandemic, to the unsettled issues of our leisure’s impact on climate change....
...As in other parts of the world, the vacation house-rental market exploded during the pandemic, and the area has seen a number of properties pop up....
...“One family of five asked me to organise a three-day vacation on a megayacht,” he says....
...She was a glum teenager when her family took a vacation to a little medieval hamlet in Tuscany....
...“There are lots of flights from Frankfurt and we vacation on the island every year....
...Mediterranean architecture normally conjures images of elegant white villas on rocky outcrops or apartments with green shutters and gently peeling ochre plaster — not space-age towers with British-themed...
...“Even if the majority of the population on the islands has been vaccinated, parties with 1,000-2,000 people take place in villas and that’s how the problem started,” she said....
...Once all locals are vaccinated, the country will roll out its “3V” tourism strategy: “Visit, Vaccinate, Vacation”, with visitors offered free jabs on arrival....
...This is the question posed by Living on Vacation, a photo-rich tome from Phaidon....
...“They are also buying second homes in vacation spots in their own country since they know travel will be disrupted for a while yet.”...
...From the outside, the six private villas resemble spaceships made of straw, set into the steep mountain slope on wooden stilts that remind me of War of the Worlds....
...A push upmarket has been expected since Airbnb acquired Luxury Retreats, a Canadian vacation rental company, in 2017....
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