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For our stay we checked in to The Retreat, a beautiful two-story beach house apartment located adjacent to the main building. This room includes a private pool and is so private that you’ll hardly remember there are three more rooms on site. Being such a small boutique property you almost always feel like you have the entire place to yourself, until it comes time for meals in the main area and you have a chance to mingle with fellow guests. On our last evening we opted for room service at no extra fee, while we packed our bags for our early morning departure and return to Sydney. … [Read more...] about Staying at Pretty Beach House North of Sydney

Thursday At Club de Campo Villa de Madrid Madrid Purse: $1.65 million Yardage: 7,112; Par: 71 First Round Kristian Krogh Johannessen, Norway 63 Adri Arnaus, Spain 65 Dean Burmester, South Africa 66 Jamie Donaldson, Northern Ireland 66 Marcel Siem, Germany 66 Andrea Pavan, Italy 66 Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Spain 66 Jon Rahm, Spain 66 Matthew Nixon, England 67 Adrian Otaegui, Spain 67 Jens Dantorp, Sweden 67 Zander Lombard, South Africa 67 Jason Scrivener, Australia 67 Samuel Del Val, Spain 67 Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium 67 Gaganjeet Bhullar, India 67 Sihwan Kim, South Korea 67 Also David Lipsky, United States 68 Sergio Garcia, Spain 69 David Cooke, United States 70 Johannes Veerman, United States 71 John Catlin, United States 71 Julian Suri, United States 72 Jose-Maria Olazabal, Spain 73 Charlie Saxon, United States 75 Sean Crocker, United States 76 … [Read more...] about European PGA-Spanish Open Scores

But a lawyer for Hunter Biden has said that he did not conduct any business related to the China investment fund on that trip, and that he was never an equity owner in the fund while his father was vice president. Hunter Biden later acquired a 10 percent interest in the entity that oversees the fund, but to date has not received any money from the arrangement, according to the lawyer. … [Read more...] about Trump publicly urges China to investigate the Bidens

Café Giang makes one of the city's best egg coffees. It was invented by Giang, a bartender at the Metropole Hotel during the French colonial era several decades ago. He took cappuccino and added whisked egg yolk to create the beverage, and gourmets around the world rave about it. … [Read more...] about Hanoi among world’s best places for coffee: CNN

HOZO 2019 will become the first international music festival to be held by HCMC on the Nguyen Hue walking street from December 13-15. "The festival will be an opportunity to promote Vietnamese traditional music and culture to the world and to bring international music to Vietnamese audiences," said Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, deputy director of the city's Department of Culture and Sport. … [Read more...] about HCMC to host international music fest