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High life

Taki: I’m on Hemingway’s boat — but there’s no bringing back the old Riviera

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

 Porto Heli

I am standing on the deck of a 100ft schooner that was built in Normandy in 1931 by Gerald and Sara Murphy, the golden American couple who invented the south of France as a summer playground and who were in the forefront of artistic and literary Parisian life of the time.

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