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For a lot of the world, July is the height of summer. Let’s find out what’s going on… I’m sure that many of you just can’t wait to get on the beach for a week or two. We don’t blame you! A bit of sun, sea and sand is the perfect way to relax if you’ve been having […] Read more
The Hamptons, once the favored vacation destination of New York City’s wealthy elite, is seeing home prices plummet and high-end properties sitting on the market for months, The New York Times reported. The median sale price of a Hamptons home has fallen 7.9% to $860,000, according to a report from Douglas Elliman Real Estate. That […] Read more
A “potentially historic” storm is heading for the central U.S. this week, and it could drop up to two feet of snow from Colorado to Minnesota. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued blizzard warnings for six states: Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota. The storm could bring record-breaking amounts of snow (potentially […] Read more
When I was a child, my grandfather Alfred Downes often spoke about the 128-day journey that he took in 1949 aboard the Pamir. The famous four-masted barque, a German Flying P-Liner ship, was sailing from Port Elizabeth in Adelaide, Australia, to the town of Falmouth in Cornwall, England, filled with 60,000 sacks of Australian grain. […] Read more
