Evening Standard

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Source: Evening Standard

Wherever you are right now, I want you to shut your eyes and whisk yourself away to this scene in your mind for a few seconds. You’re somewhere warm — the sort of warm that means breeze carries no chill whatsoever, but rather comes laced with scent. Flowers, usually. Possibly some herbs and a whisper of that inimitable oceanic metallic edge, too. Ahead of you shimmers an enticing body of blue water, inviting you in. You’ll go once the sun has baked just a little more heat into

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