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☆ ‘How To Have Sex’ director Molly Manning Walker on her explosive film and sparking debate in the UK
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Molly Manning Walker learned she was a two-time BAFTA nominee at the unholy hour of 5 AM. That’s not to say Manning Walker is a world apart from the young subjects of her film. The film, Manning Walker’s first feature, was a hit at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won top prize in the Un Certain Regard competition. Courtesy MUBICNN: For better or for worse, there’s a lot about “How To Have Sex” that’s distinctly British. Director Molly Manning Walker and actress Mia McKenna-Bruce pose during the 76th Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2023.

Persons: Molly Manning Walker, reveller, Manning, Manning Walker, ”, Malia, who’ve, Tara, Mia McKenna, Bruce, Manning Walker’s, You’ve, you’ve, It’s, I’d, haven’t, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, they’re, Thomas Vinterberg, VALERY HACHE, that’s, “, ’ ” Organizations: CNN, Sundance Film, Cannes, Cannes Film, Getty Locations: British, Park City , Utah, Magaluf, Majorca, Spain, Greece, Australia, ”, America, Malia , Greece, AFP

☆ He wanted to be a trombone player. Instead, he ended up as CEO of one of the world's biggest airlines.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Chris Johnston | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

He's been CEO of European airline easyJet for the past six years. AdvertisementIn a parallel universe, Johan Lundgren would have become a professional musician and never ended up as CEO of one of the world's biggest airlines. "I like people, and I like travel," Lundgren tells Business Insider in a faint Swedish accent during an interview in central London. He spent many years at TUI, one of Europe's biggest travel companies, rising to deputy CEO by the time he left in 2015. AdvertisementIt's the UK's biggest airline and is first or second in many other markets too.

Persons: Johan Lundgren, He's, Lundgren, —, Swede, easyJet, Charles de Gaulle, Charles de, It's, I've, didn't, Bob Jordan, EasyJet, Stelios Stelios Haji, he's, that's, Michael O'Leary, Filipo Monteforte, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary, O'Leary Organizations: easyJet, Service, Royal College of Music, Soviet Union, SAS, Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, British Airways, London Gatwick, Southwest, UK's, Airbus, Getty Locations: Britain, London, Stockholm, Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union, Soviet, TUI, Majorca, Europe, Charles, Paris, Charles de Gaulle, easyJet, Ukraine, Sweden, Canada, Toronto, AFP

Cinven, CPP Investments, EQT, Evercore and Morgan Stanley declined to comment. Hotelbeds' shareholders had been considering a private sale as an alternative to an IPO, the people said. Should it list in Spain, Hotelbeds' would be one of the largest IPOs the country has seen in recent years. Majorca-based Hotelbeds offers travel agencies, airlines and tour operators access to hotel rooms worldwide in what it describes as a "bedbank". Hotelbeds said it had its best fortnight ever in booking revenue earlier this year, recording a booking per second at peak times.

Persons: Nacho, Evercore, Morgan Stanley, Cinven, Hotelbeds, Andres Gonzalez, Pablo Mayo, Anousha Sakoui, Nick Zieminski Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Investments, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro, Thomson Locations: Santa Cruz, Canary, Spain, Madrid, Majorca, London

☆ A Local’s Guide to Majorca
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Gisela Williams | Richard Pedaline | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

T’s new monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you might already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent visitors and locals alike. Majorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, has been a classic summer destination for Europeans and Brits for decades. In the last few years, a number of artists and designers have left larger cities in Europe and moved to Majorca. For the first installment of our series of Flocking To travel guides, we asked four locals or frequent visitors to Majorca to share the places they love most. One word of advice for first-time visitors: Majorca sprawls across roughly 1,400 square miles (it’s about the size of Long Island), so if you’re planning on exploring, you might want to rent a car.

Persons: helipads, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Deià —, Gertrude Stein —, Joan Miró, Miquel Barceló, ikat Locations: Majorca, Balearic, Polish, French, Valldemossa, British, American, Deià, Barcelona, Palma ., Asia, Europe, Sóller, Palma’s Old, Long

☆ Before Wimbledon, There’s Practice on Grass at an English Garden Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Even for the best tennis players in the world, the days before a Grand Slam can be filled with nerves and stress, especially the time leading up to Wimbledon, the grandest Grand Slam of them all. Days can become a blur of hunting for hitting partners and time on the limited practice courts a tournament has available, or one last try to win some tour-level matches at competitions in Eastbourne or Majorca. A handful of pros, including several clients of Patricio Apey, a longtime agent, end up at a classic English garden party called the Boodles that is unlike nearly anything else on the tennis calendar — a Gatsby-like few days on an estate outside London that makes Wimbledon’s All England Club, supposedly the apotheosis of tennis elegance, feel like a gathering of the masses at the local park.

Persons: Patricio Apey Organizations: Wimbledon, England Club Locations: Eastbourne, Majorca, London

☆ Hotel Corazon Wants to Host Your Hot Girl Summer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Elizabeth Paton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Serra de Tramuntana is a mountain range that runs along the northwestern edge of the island of Majorca, off the coast of mainland Spain. Its towering peaks and valleys are lined with ancient olive groves, lemon orchards and picturesque hilltop villages. The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea. In 2020, after she fell in love with the 18th-century finca next door, she and her husband, the Mexican artist Edgar Lopez Arellano, decided to turn their hands to hospitality. Hotel Corazon opened earlier this month, after more than two years of work by the couple alongside a team from Moredesign, a local architecture practice that’s a mainstay of glossy magazines like Architectural Digest.

Persons: Kate Bellm, Edgar Lopez Arellano, Hotel Corazon Organizations: Gucci, Hotel Locations: Tramuntana, Majorca, Spain, British, Deia, Mexican, Moredesign

☆ Rafael Nadal Withdraws From the French Open, Wants to Play One More Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Matthew Futterman | Christopher Clarey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rafael Nadal, the 14-time French Open men’s singles champion, will not compete in this year’s edition of the event that has defined his career because of an injury that has sidelined him for months. Nadal, who has competed in Paris every year since 2005 and has an astonishing record of 112-3 at Roland Garros, made the announcement in a news conference Thursday at his tennis academy on the Spanish island of Majorca. Nadal said he would further extend his break from the game to try to get healthy and then attempt to play next season, which he said “probably is going to be my last year in the professional tour.”“That’s my idea,” he said. “Even that, I can’t say that 100 percent it’s going to be like this because you never know what is going to happen, but my idea and motivation is to try to enjoy and to try to say goodbye to all the tournaments that have been important to me in my tennis career.”

☆ A British guy crashed her Thanksgiving dinner. They’ve been married for 20 years
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-26 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Thanksgiving 2021 and was updated and republished for Thanksgiving 2023. CNN —It was November 1997 and Dina Honour was hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. Courtesy Dina HonourWhen he’d traveled to New York, Richard had been seeing someone back in London. Here's a recent photo of Dina, Richard and family in 2023. Courtesy Dina HonourWhen Richard and Dina first moved to Cyprus, they tried to recreate traditional US Thanksgiving traditions.

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