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Restaurant review: Digby Chick
The last thing you’d expect in this distant corner of Scotland is a smart, buzzy outpost of Islington… 5 Bank Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (01851 700 026). Meal for two, with wine and service, £70-£100 It is my last night on dry land, and outside the restaurant the streets of Stornoway are being washed by a hard summer rain. In the harbour the boats heave and sigh on their moorings, and at the table I sigh and frown over the menu.
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Restaurant review: Digby Chick
Recession drives number of career breaks to a record high
Research suggests the number of people taking time out from work or study has rocketed in the last decade The recession is driving more young people than ever to embark on gap years as well as prompting record numbers of working Britons to take sabbaticals and career breaks, according to research from Santander . In the 1970s, around 270,000 people took time out from their careers, a figure which increased to around 710,000 between 1980 and 1989. By 2010, according to Santander’s research, the number of people taking career breaks had rocketed to around 4 million people
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Boris Johnson pledges extra buses and bike escorts as London Tube strike looms
Contingency plans ready as London Underground workers get set to walk out over job cuts Transport bosses and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said yesterday they would “pull out all the stops” to help commuters during the planned strike by London Underground workers on Monday. Johnson said contingency plans would include an extra 100 buses, escorted bike rides, marshalled taxi ranks and capacity for 10,000 extra journeys on the river Thames boats.
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Boris Johnson pledges extra buses and bike escorts as London Tube strike looms
Arabian nights: stylish places to stay
Four new and revamped urban bolt holes in the Middle East and north Africa • Cairo’s Talisman Hotel ( i-escape.com/talismanhotel.php ), which opened a year ago near the Egyptian Museum, claims to be the city’s only boutique hotel. Its 24 colourful rooms (£66 B&B) with chandeliers, parquet floor and beautiful quilts, take up the fifth-floor of an apartment block in downtown Cairo and, along with decadent salons and a dining room, are accessed by an old wrought-iron lift
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Sahara road trip
Following an ancient trade route across Libya, Sara Wheeler enounters Berber life, and finds that trade and smuggling are still alive and well Abu Bakir, our driver and factotum, carried a large carpet shoulder bag that had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. It contained tea-making equipment: a beaten silver tray, two silver beakers, a teapot and a camel-hair buffing cloth. Wherever camp was established, Abu Bakir would settle on a square of carpet laid on the sand and commence the tea ritual.
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Sahara road trip