Crossing to Scotland, Lerwick adds Shetland ponies and stone crofts, Kirkwall delivers Norse-meets-Scottish history and Skara Brae-era vibes, and Edinburgh’s skyline crowns it with castle views before the elegant glide up the Thames to Greenwich.
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Jill Schildhouse,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.
Melchor was a foreman on a sugarcane plantation, and Luisa was a laundress.
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Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
For instance, analyzing two large sugar plantations in Saint Domingue during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, Gabriel Debien calculated a rate of return of about 12 percent.
Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
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Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
Qian and her partner are renovating a farmhouse in the Portuguese countryside.
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Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
In the play, Farrow played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse.
Seating was created for 245 guests, with new private dining spaces, a classic bar and lounge, a new garden patio and Isadore’s Table, a semi-private space in the main dining room.
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Linda Zavoral,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
The homes in the Flying Saucer park run the gamut, from RVs with no or minimal additions to ones with skirting around the bottom, outside decks and gardens.
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