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Looking for love online isn’t for desperate geeks or lonely losers – in fact, among the millennials it’s completely destigmatised. The widest behavioral changes in dating are a direct result of the £1.8 billion online-dating industry; it’s gone ballistic in the past few years due to the explosive success of mobile dating apps. Chuck into the fold the statistic that we are marrying later in life (every year sees the graph curve edge higher), and hey presto romance has gone feral. Doom-mongers say romance is dead. Baby boomers, who thought the 60s were wild, think it’s gone haywire as anyone with a smartphone is carrying a 24/7 singles bar in their pocket.

Say you’re a woman, looking for a 35-year-old vegan man who matches your six feet – let’s face it, you’ve dated enough short men to know it doesn’t work on the dance floor, has blue eyes, lives in Winchester, loves Daft Punk, and vapes pomegranates. Prior to screening eight dozen profiles on Tinder while you dating, uses your GPS location to find a match in your online dating, this would have been a fruitless (no pun wait for your hummus; momentarily fantasising locality then connects you with a torrent of photos intended) quest, but now, at any time of day or night no about the guy in black leather biker trousers, before to scan. It’s easy. A swipe to the right means you’re matter where you are, you’re just a few swipes away from reaching the olive counter and coming to your senses. interested, a swipe to the left is an instant ditch. No sending a message to your very particular dream man. Throughout the chronicles of mankind, we’ve never chemistry? No problem. There’s nothing awkward experienced a smorgasbord quite like this. about dumping before dating. It’s a pure gut reaction The ludicrous rate of technological improvements for its 50 million users, who check 11 means that no minute of the day is left to waste. You Tinder, for those of you that are either too old school, times a day on average. Photos drive can stand in the Waitrose deli queue simultaneously too hitched or too terrified to encounter internet 90% of the action and, despite the

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nuanced data that people put on their the journey to finding love. In 1932, the American 60 Seconds SPEED profiles, the factor that’s relied on most sociologist James Bossard examined 5,000 marriages is looks. So, are computers Cupid’s in Philadelphia. One-third had lived within a five- new arrow? According to the UK’s Online Dating block radius of each other before they wed, one with our DATING… Association (ODA) over 27% of new relationships are in six within a block, and one in eight at the same facilitated by a dating website or app. It’s big business address. In a way, online dating is not dissimilar to Guiness World Record for delayed response? with plenty of wannabe matchmakers jumping on the what our grandparents experienced; shrinking infinite friends... band wagon to service different cultures, spawning possibilities to a selection of attractive (beauty is in the niche agencies and apps. There’s JDate for Jewish eye of the beholder) matches nearby. You matched with Michelle on lonely hearts; The League for elites; Ave Maria Singles Christian Rudder, OkCupid co-founder, told the Daisy Lowe for devout Catholics; Vampire Passions (needs no NY Times, “some of what we learned about effective Sept 9, 2014, 10:20 PM words); Cupidtino for those obsessed with Apple’s photos on online dating apps was predictable: Women THINGS WE LOVE in the mountains... products; Muddy Matches for farmers; and Bumble who flirt for the camera or show cleavage are quite where women have to make the first move. But are successful. Some of what we learned was pretty weird: Hey Michelle Whether you are a black-run braver, a sun-worshipping tourist trap, unlike neighbouring China and Japan, unhelpful more options better? Psychologist Barry Schwartz, Men who look away and don’t smile do better than snow-bunny or just there for the après, here are a few things regional politics and precarious security situation, the question divides us into two types: satisficers (who satisfy and those who do; women holding animals don’t do that might tempt you to the slopes this season! has to be asked: Why South Korea? Nov 28, 2014, 11:04 PM then suffice) and maximizers (who seek out the best). well, but men holding animals do. Men did better Constant access to phones and internet, have made us when shown engaging in an interesting activity. A 3000M TOBOGGAN RUN COMES While mountainous, it lacks the stunning, jagged peaks of all maximisers with unlimited romantic options. It’s We recommend the following: If you are a woman, TO COURCHEVEL! the Alps or Japanese volcanoes blanketed in 15 meters of Hey sorry my phone died! all very well being a maximiser but Schwartz believes take a high-angle selfie, with cleavage, while you’re Do you have a need for speed? Forget cars and hit Courchevel’s snow like Hokkaido. But what South Korea lacks in tradition that less was in fact more. The increase of choices underwater near some buried treasure. If you are a guy, slopes in a Toboggan – brand spanking new to France’s top it makes up for in efficiency: small, modern resorts with makes it more difficult to select and leads to potential take a shot of yourself spelunking in a dark cave while resort this season. Imagine whizzing down a 3km track fast lifts and good snowmaking. With slopes open well past Nov 29, 2014, 1:40 AM dissatisfaction as we muse over those we discarded. holding your puppy and looking away from the camera, with 450m vertical descent, punctuated with four tunnels, midnight, Korean hip-hop blaring from slope-side speakers, Perhaps the biggest change in matchmaking is the lack without smiling.” of presence of friends and family, who traditionally Monaco-style turns and Le Mans straights. The Luge XXL and apreskaraoke, this South Korean ski-style is fast, furious Wow you found that pretty fast. It runs from the top of the new Courchevel Moriond bubble lift and full of energy. www.olympic.org played the role of vetting and introducing. While And what about pheromones? After all these photos usually takes me about five months all the way down into the village every day and evening with our parents’ focus might have been the girl next door and filters, what’s happening to the chemistry of love? to find my charger floodlighting. See you at the top.www.courchevel.com ROMANTIC WINTER RETREAT or someone at church, today’s budding hearts are Well I suggest you go down to the bar and check out What could be more romantic than a cosy alpine lodge designed swiping through a town of faces. It’s revolutionised who’s online. CHEER ON TEAM GB IN THE WINTER OLYMPICS just for two? Some 60 years ago, Petite Marmotte Lodge was Nov 29, 2014, 10:07 PM The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, are just a humble hay loft sitting on the sunny side of the slope in just months away, kicking off in February 2018 (don’t all rush Belvedere, Courchevel. It is now a small but perfectly formed What are you reading? at once but tickets are on sale now). The two-week sporting rustic retreat with just one bedroom, a snug seating area and Yeah I just wanted to make sure it was Swing Time by Zadie Smith spectacular is set to host 102 events across 15 different winter your own private hot tub with views across the slopes. It is the fully charged, 0 to 100 real slow. sports, including four new disciplines: big air snowboarding, only chalet in the Three Valleys for two people – the perfect What are you eating? which replaces parallel slalom; mixed doubles curling; mass- honeymoon destination or get away from the little ones. A fried Burford brown egg on a start speed skating; and mixed team alpine skiing. Never a www.portetta.com piece of well buttered rye toast Jan 19, 2015, 10:45 PM Fave new find? Hey, sorry was in the shower The Penguin podcast... especially the episodes featuring Richard E Grant Feb 13, 2015, 12:25 AM Who are you listening to? @scarymommy Frank Ocean, Jorja Smith and The Hey just saw this message, @prettycitylondon @catherinecoombes- A curated set Queens Of The Stone Age’s latest sorry I was in class flowers Cute photos of our of (sometimes) album. I also love James Righton’s capital…what’s not inappropriate images and Gorgeous plant and (from the Klaxons) solo debut to love? quotes about modern flower inspo album Shock Machine. May 18, 2015, 4:41 PM parenting… I’ve always been a big fan of radio Sorry Michelle I have made a horrible and I’m a massive fan of podcasts as a format. I love listening to Matt first impression, i it really caught up Everitt on BBC Radio 6 Music, and with finals @portettahotel in the winter sun... @minimalistbaker @anthropologie THINGS WE LOVE I’m excited to finally hear the new Lime Wood’s sister podcast that Louise Redknapp and Minimum ingredients One of our favourite hotel in Courchevel, a Winter is about to set in, vitamin D is in short supply holistic wellness experiences integrate healing therapies from I have been recording and effort, maximum brands… Apparel, home Dec 20, 2015, 8:30 PM mountain retreat at the and it’s time to unpack the woollies. But it’s still beach East and West, a beautiful natural environment, inspired entitled “Femme” taste…sounds ideal and beauty foot of the slopes weather somewhere. healthy food and various results oriented wellness programs. Hi I really do apologize for just now Kamalaya is built around a centuries old cave, once used by Ideal date night? getting back to you, I’ve had a really ORLEBAR BROWN BEACH WEAR Buddhist monks as place of meditative retreat, which gives Watching a play at the National busy week Ten years ago, London based photographer Adam Brown leapt the place a special healing energy – we feel relaxed just and then walking along the @humansofny in at the deep end with a tailored swimming shorts start-up - not thinking about it. www.kamalaya.com Southbank and over the bridge @ordnancesurvey so much a swim short but a ‘short you can swim in’, offering for some great dinner Brandon Stanton’s Beautiful Britain, it @passionpassport something you can wear on the beach, by the pool and then THE BUNGALOW, CAPE TOWN Oct 10, 2016, 9:50 PM portraits and will make you want to smart enough to go and have a drink or lunch. One reason for You really can’t overstate the case for visiting Cape Town. You’ll never find me… accompanying tales make Wanderlust covered explore even more of his success is surely down to the fact that Brown has recognised Pristine white beaches that run down to a glittering sea, In a trance rave the world feel a little Michelle I don’t want you to think I’m the country that summer is not just a season – it’s a state of mind. “Ultimately the in-your-face beauty of Table Mountain, and a lush rude, midterms are coming up and it’s just smaller and, well, human – and I know it sounds like an annoying cliché – we are about green backdrop, all set against the cool urban edge of This winter I am most been really hard to keep up with it all the experience. When you’re wearing Orlebar Brown, it’s about the city; home to world-class restaurants, excellent art excited about….. where you are, who you’re with, sunshine, travel, good times. galleries, hip bars, design-savvy shops, and some of Africa’s Snuggling up by a fire with mulled That’s what people are buying into” – it might not be summer most innovative artists and designers, drawn by the city’s cider and my little dog Monty Feb 22, 2017, 1:58 AM @whatmyboyfriend- @pantone in the UK, but we are sure we could all do with a summer state innate beauty. With peak season falling between mid- @5ftinf of mind on some of those chilly days. www.orlebarbrown.com wore The worldwide December and early January now is the time to go. The What are you doing for the Flowers and tea… standard for colour Bungalow restaurant, set right on the edge of the cliffs rest of the day? Hey Josh, just wanted to get back to you A dandy’s diary of daily and more flowers communication and KAMALAYA WELLNESS SANCTUARY of Camps Bay, just along the coast from Cape Town, has I have another meeting followed by really quickly! Presidents’ Day had me dapperness inspiration… & HOLISTIC SPA uninterrupted views of the Atlantic, all-white interiors a facial with the wonderful Arezoo swamped recently, you know how it gets!! In need of some you-time? Kamalaya is a multi-awardwinning and serves ‘straight out the sea’ fish and sushi. There is no Kaviani in Knightsbridge and then wellness sanctuary located on the southern coast of the better place to watch the sunset with a large Rosé in hand. I’m going home to make spaghetti beautiful Koh Samui, Thailand. Founded in 2005, the resort’s www.thebungalow.co.za Bolognese and watch the GBBO :) 4 2017 2017 5

You would be the allotment mad to miss.. There used to be a time when butchers had to educate YOUR ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS PUD their customers. Those days are long gone. Today, we are only too happy to ask the questions ourselves and A few ideas to keep you and your FLYING THE enquiring about our food has become second nature. gang entertained this winter… FLAG We want to know what an animal was fed; what sort of life it had; where it lived... These are all questions that 1 OCTOBER – 12 NOVEMBER the meat-man Peter Hannan is delighted to answer. In Raising the Harry Potter ‘Dark Arts’ Studio fact, Hannan Meats have some of the most remarkable CHASING A taste and provenance in the UK: dry aged to perfection Tour, London - See a more sinister NEW TIPPLE in Himalayan salt chambers, then entrusted to some of version of the Harry Potter studio Chase Distilleries, pioneers of the craft the country’s finest chefs. set, just in time for Halloween. STEAKS spirit revolution, are celebrating their tenth anniversary. Ahead of the trend Born into a farming family, Peter grew up on a diet (over 700 new distilleries opened in 2016 with Peter Hannan of hand reared beef and lamb in Co. Kildare, Ireland alone), their provenance is second to handmade shoe brand, that he decided the helm, and cousins Jody and James and was slaughtering and selling his own meat at the Ingredients none - everything is made from scratch to leapfrog student life and support representing the next generation of the tender age of 11. By the time he had turned 14, with sustainable sources. We particularly the ties he’d nurtured with his master company, the future looks sparkling for • 85g self-raising flour he was well on the way to becoming a top meat love the new elderflower liqueur that’s craftsmen in Sheffield. He credits his Britain’s most exciting fine jeweller. • 120g shredded vegetable suet farmer. By 22 he was running abattoirs in America. perfect for Christmas cocktails; and achievement to demanding exceptional www.boodles.com or grated chilled butter Willy’s apple cider vinegar from their quality, and for spotting the gap in the Founded, and still grounded, in agriculture, • 25g blanched almonds, shredded (optional) Hereford orchards, untouched by market for an authentic traditionally Peter is proud of his unrivalled expertise • 120g carrot, grated modern day farming practices throughout handcrafted shoe that just slips on. and provenance, which he’ll gladly FROM 14 OCTOBER MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL its 300-year existence. The fresh air www.dukeanddexter.com • 120g raisins share with anyone who asks. It’s saying Modern Art and St Ives, Tate St fermentation creates ‘The Mother’, good From its inception Mary Temperely’s something that he’s still supplying his • 120g currants Ives, Cornwall - exploring the and friendly bacteria, which makes the skincare philosophy has been insistent that first five clients, 26 years later. Next time • 120g sultanas history of modern art in St Ives, vinegar cloudy and ‘cobwebby’. And GEM GENIUS all her MAKE products, prepared by hand in you order your Sunday roast make sure your that’s it. No fertilisers or pesticides. small batches in her converted barn on the • 60g dried breadcrumbs beef cuts the mustard. Don’t ask, don’t get. giving key artists a permanent Celebrating British tradition with a Nothing added, nothing removed – 100% Somerset Levels, are good enough to eat. • ¼ tsp grated nutmeg www.hannanmeats.com presence in the town where they contemporary approach, Boodles has natural and bursting with goodness. been designing and selling jewellery for Each product is very considered, “I didn’t • 55g mixed candied peel lived and worked. www.chasedistillery.co.uk well over two centuries. Hailing from want to create simple base creams topped • 85g light muscovado sugar Liverpool, and steered by six generations up with essential oils. The formulas start • 1 lemon, grated zest and juice of the same family, it’s a story about from the bottom up and every ingredient is SLIPPING IT ON there for a reason, packed full of vitamins, • 2 eggs, beaten people with a passion and a long held In 2014, 19-year-old Archie Hewlett ambition to take the business from its plant oils and extracts.” We say, bring on • 75ml dark rum or brandy butter decided he wasn’t going to Durham roots to the blossoming international the skincare revolution, and check out for greasing University anymore. Such was the reputation it enjoys today. With brothers her brand new range of bath time bubbles. IN explosive success of his Duke and Dexter Nicholas and Michael Wainwright at www.makeskincare.co.uk Method RUBIES 1. In a large mixing bowl, work the suet or butter into the flour until it begins to THE y resemble breadcrumbs err blue b 2. Add all the remaining ingredients (except RUBBLE the alcohol) to the bowl and stir thoroughly WHAT WE’RE until all the ingredients are properly combined 6TH-8TH NOVEMBER (hands can be used here!) Daylesford Wellchild Christmas Imagine a world where if you - Food Cycle: serving community bakery/restaurant. They trade 3. Generously butter a pudding basin, capable Fair, Kingham, Cotswolds - 180 of holding 1litre of liquid weren’t perfectly polished and meals across the country, where directly with local farmers, presentable, you would be volunteers make over 850 meals compost waste, and then reuse it stands, each specialising in DRINKING 4. Spoon the mixture into the basin and tap rejected as useless and rubbish. a week in spare kitchen space, in the production of more food. beautiful pieces from the UK’s lightly to ensure the mixture sinks and there Now imagine you were a are no air pockets using food that would otherwise In an age obsessed with plastic, leading designers and artisans. blueberry. You would stand less be thrown out. they have done away with 5. If using a traditional ceramic basin, cover than a 66% chance of reaching - Company Shop and processing, packaging and the top and sides with a well buttered piece of 23RD NOVEMBER NOW a plate, along with all other Community Shop: send postage: preferring a pure, An Evening with Anna Del greaseproof paper and tin foil. Pleat them both produce. That’s 1.3 billion supermarket food that is still fit primitive approach (try saying to allow for expansion tonnes of food worldwide every. for consumption not to the trash that 10 times faster). Conte, Roth Bar & Grill at Hauser 6. If using a plastic basin, cut a piece of single. year. However, companies but back to people’s trollies. - The Pig Idea: Simple idea – big and Wirth, Somerset - celebrating Everyone who knows Dasha Tinkova, knows that autumn means a sumptuous bouquet of citrus fruit with the smallest hint of greaseproof to fit the top of the pudding, butter such as Rubies in the Rubble They sell produce at more impacts. Lift the ban on feeding friendship and Italian food with just one thing - truffle hunting season. An acclaimed authority honey. There is a lovely depth to the wine, which has an ageing take rubbish as a compliment, it well and place it on. Then place the lid on affordable prices to members food waste to pigs and massively the Goddess of Italian cookery. on the private sales team at Bordeaux Index, she has a multitude potential of up to ten years. top followed by a good, strong wrapping of or as they say, a condiment. In of the food manufacturing reduce carbon emissions due to of flavours running through her veins; originally from Russia, she May alone, they have ‘saved’ cling film around the entire thing industry, emergency services, a) not sending the waste for grew up in California, has lived in both Italy and France and The second bottle has to be a red too, as Piedmont is mostly 1020 curly cucumbers, 5100 juicy now deals with customers from all over the world. She’s happy to 7. Place the pudding in a steamer pan and cook and set up shop (literally) in anaerobic digestion, when renowned for its red wines. Easy drinking comes from a 2001 tomatoes, and 1900 pink onions share her passion… Barolo Montfortino Reserva from Giacomo Conterno. The gently for 6 hours disadvantaged communities. greenhouse gases are released, in order to make their range flavours are complimentary. Layers of sweet perfumed berries - This is Rubbish: Following in and b) reducing the alarming 8. If you haven’t got a steamer pan, a large sauce of home-made relishes. Other Locals are right in suggesting that in order to find the best and roses, refined yet very powerful, with an extremely resonate the footsteps of Giuseppe amounts of land in areas such as pan of water will work. Just ensure that the organisations helping salvage truffles, you have to venture out before the sun is up. And luckily finish (awarded 98 points from Antonio Galloni). The only fault water comes at least half way up the side of the part of this enormous amount of Arcimboldo (worth a google), the Amazon being cleared in this time, the hunting dogs are able to discover a relatively large I can find with Barolo, is its intensity and after a bottle or two, pudding basin and remember to keep topped up food waste include FareShare: they do more than campaign; order to grow food to feed our white truffle during our picturesque hour long excursion. They I find myself feeling slightly ‘tired’ the next morning (I’ll leave with boiling water if it starts to run dry they save good food and send it they use edible education and livestock. frequently take over six hours to locate. it to you to discover as to whether it’s the wine or my stamina). 9. After 6 hours, remove and allow to cool to over 6,700 different charities the arts to reduce food waste. Breakfast is a saviour, along with any leftover truffles, all put to for a while. When just warm, take off the lid and community groups, where it They aim to inspire a reduction The list continues… Foodsave, Being in Italy, there’s only one thing for it back to the house – good use. Overnight the truffles are kept in a sealed container and using a skewer, pierce a few holes into the is used to feed some of the UK’s in waste by helping people Too Good to Waste and Fruit homemade pasta to accompany the fresh-as-it-gets wild truffles. with eggs, whose porous shells facilitate absorption of the 20TH-22ND DECEMBER pudding and pour in the rum/brandy most vulnerable people. UK- understand and appreciate the Factory etc all asking food to pass This truffle is like nothing I’ve had before. Utterly delicious. Of pungent truffle taste, resulting in the most heavenly scrambled the taste test, rather than the Winchester Cathedral Christmas 10. Allow to cool to room temperature based charities and businesses food system. course, to compliment this unique taste, we need a wine from the eggs. Ever. And if you still have it in you, might I suggest a cheeky focused on this conscious - Silo Coffee House: the UK’s beauty test. market, Hampshire – get seriously region – a bottle of Rossj Bass Chardonnay from Angelo Gaja Sauternes. What could possibly beat a Chateau D’Yquem (also consumption include: first zero-waste coffee house/ festive in England’s ancient capital. 2015 will do nicely. It has exquisite balance and grace, offering scoring 100 points from Robert Parker) as the perfect finish. 6 2017 2017 7

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And Nearly a quarter of a century later Rwanda is back on line, that rises up, up, up through smallholdings and energy, are either too hot to handle successful shows in six years; most £7k and tip-top 500s are going for never more so than in Rwanda, where the opportunity her feet with burgeoning potential for nature tourism. acres of flowering Irish potato crops to grasslands that politically or just downright volatile, recently at the Maddox Gallery - between £10-20k and with its 60th to sit among the last remaining mountain gorillas is, Top tier international hoteliers have opened lodges lead to the impenetrable wall of mountain forest. The Dom & Steph so the dilemma remains: what to do Disseverance in 2016 - a total sell anniversary this year, 2017 could arguably, Africa’s most exhilarating encounter. There this year on the heels of the established Eco visionary persistent drizzle does little to deter those of us who are with your nest egg? Spreading the out in four days. be the time to buy. are fewer than 900 mountain gorillas left in the Praveen Moman. Ousted by military dictator Idi Amin, willing to tackle the punishing hike to get just a glimpse Q. Dom and Steph, what are load is a popular idea… world. To put that in perspective with other critically Praveen returned to Africa in 1997, pioneered gorilla of the world’s largest living primate. AND THEN THERE’S THE your ingredients for the perfect CARS CARS CARS endangered animals, white rhino number 20,000, and tourism, as we know it today, and continues to steer PINK DIAMONDS ARE A BRUNCH GENERATION Bengal tiger 2,400. Mountain gorillas remain critically the way in conservation between wildlife and people. Only eight visitors are allowed per gorilla family per Christmas party? A good rule of thumb suggests GIRL’S BEST FRIEND that a car can only be treated as Found guilty as charged for endangered, threatened by poaching, an ever- day to minimize intrusion and all visitors are requested Jewellery’s benefits are two-fold, an investment if it is a collectable singlehandedly boosting decreasing habitat, and the risk of human contagion. While tourism has overtaken agriculture as the number to keep 7m away – a rule we keep but they don’t Agony Uncle Dom says: This party can one income provider, the arteries from the capital necessarily. Hikes vary in length and can take as little either project you to dizzy heights of social as an investment in your present classic. While there is no reliable avocado options, millennials happiness and as a legacy. 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They yellow jacaranda decorate the roads, and poinsettia appear, along with muddy waterfalls and mile upon you ask the right people. Basically, if the in all the locations is virtually guaranteed. Gorillas financial markets. Seen as a mature commodity. So which were the watch the trends as judiciously grow as large as trees. Locals are right to be proud of mile of bean crops. Johnsons have recently been caught are intelligent, they laugh, grieve, make and use tools player in the global market, it automatic winners over the last as baby boomers watch their their thoroughly modern capital; it’s safe, dynamic trafficking Dachshunds through Based at 2,300 metres, with just ten bedrooms, and and, as we experience firsthand, have a rich emotional has universal appeal – much to couple of years? houses. Constantly in pursuit and well worth exploring. Bicycle and motorbike Dover, best not have them. 360 degree views overlooking the colossal Virunga relationship with their family. Despite their colossus, its advantage – and universally of satisfaction, ungentrified taxis carry confident looking Sapeurs (city slickers) Avoid the bickering-bickers at Volcanoes and twin lakes of Bulera and Ruhonda, the they look invitingly cuddly, especially the youngsters adored as an accessory. Think of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage hipsters queue contentedly for who battle out catwalk dandyism in shiny suits all cost. Prepare great dance Virunga Eco Lodge is the most dramatic base in the with their quizzical looks and comical chest-beating Tiffany Setting Ring, or the Cartier Price range: £300,000-£400,000, shakshuka (Israeli baked eggs to and celebrated originality. Along the pavements, music if that’s your thing, country, whether or not you’ve come to encounter the posturing. It’s no surprise that they share 98 percent Love Bracelet and screwdriver used Increase in 2016: +20% you and me), Instagramming an women size you up with their penetrating stares, and don’t forget good endangered mountain gorillas. of our DNA; their digits, fingernails, intelligent brown to open it – a piece for life. Boodles untouched brunch plate, then elegantly dressed in colourful Congolese kangas green decorations but eyes, and perfect ears are all too familiar. But the MD, Michael Wainwright, advises Porsche 993 Carrera 2 marking their social status in a and Ibitenge headdresses. please no paper distinctive sloping forehead and flared heart shaped to Buy Pink. In the last decade, Price range: £30,000 - £50,000, live-for-the-now defiance that’s chains. Nibbles if Even in the city, Africa’s rich terracotta soil dominates NOW or NEVER nostrils of the massive silverback are enough warning to the growth curve in coloured Increase in 2016: +10% sets to shame the rest of us. you have to but the landscape and every spare inch is cultivated with We all remember it. Say David Attenborough and the be respectful, no matter how benign his vibe. diamonds has outstripped that of leave out the banana palms, citrus, and feathery casuarina trees picture that comes to mind is of a giant silverback gorilla white three times over, particularly honey. Lastly, accommodating exotic yellow billed storks. But we centimetres from his face as he whispers to the camera, It just got twice as hard to see mountain gorillas in no party would rare pink and blue stones. Best in furtively glancing sideways every now and then. Rwanda. Financially that is: the price for an hour HE DRANK IT AWAY cannot talk about Rwanda without understanding the be Christmas class are certified unheated stones, with these mighty apes doubled overnight from $750 The Knight Frank Wealth Report 2016 indicated wine to be coming heartbreak of its wretched past. without The from the Argyle mine in Australia With that in mind, getting up close and personal with the to $1,500. Paradoxically, paying them a visit has forward as the title contender for best performing alternative investment. Pogues at the (soon to be mined out). 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