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Forget the magnificent red wine. Visitors to the Abbaye du Val des Choues, a 12th century Cistercian monastery in Burgundy, may come away with a real souvenir?"les honneurs," the foot of a wild boar. But only if they catch the beast first. Since 1999 In?s Monot, co-owner of Val des Choues, has been opening her home and her hunt in the lush forests to adventurous Europeans. With a ban on fox hunting looming in England and Wales she is seeing a growing number of visitors from across the channel. So far this season (which runs from mid-October...
...Monot prepares a weekly posthunt feast at the abbey, with traditional French dishes such as venison in (what else?) hunter's sauce, salmon terrine and chocolate gateau. A five-day stay costs around $1,000 for a single rider, and includes two wild-boar hunts, horse hire, accommodation, an optional visit to a winery or champagne producer, and most meals. For more information call In?s or Michel Monot...
Forget the magnificent red wine. Visitors to the Abbaye du Val des Choues, a 12th century Cistercian monastery in Burgundy, may come away with a real souvenir - "les honneurs," the foot of a wild boar. But only if they catch the beast first. Since 1999 Inès Monot, co-owner of Val des Choues, has been opening her home and her hunt in the lush forests to adventurous Europeans. With a ban on fox hunting looming Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter...
...DIED. EMLYN HUGHES, 57, ebullient and well-loved former captain of Liverpool Football Club and England; from a brain tumor diagnosed 15 months ago; near Sheffield, England. As a tenacious young footballer in the late 1960s, Hughes' wild charges and galloping gait earned him the moniker Crazy Horse. Over a 20-year career, he tamed his exuberance into steady play, becoming captain and leading Liverpool to four league titles and two European Cups from 1976 to 1980. After retirement, Hughes became a TV celebrity and fixture of a long-running bbc sports quiz show...
...more recites blurry jingles and scraps of melody than pronounces anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations gives an effect of purposely pathetic overextension (see the absurd choir-boy-to-demon shift in “Among Dreams”), as if he’s playing every part in a soap opera. He’s shooting for the platonic ideals of theme songs and television...