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Thursday, October 22, 2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon.

Dear Readers:

It has been an absolute zip-zip-zip of late—as those of you reading my Tweets can attest. First it was Bologna, Italy, for Cersaie, the international exhibition of ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishings, where I scoped the latest and greatest in Italian flooring and fittings. And from there it was on to Venice to write my feature on La Serenissima for the December issue of the magazine. And then it was on to London and now, finally, back to New York.

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Friday, September 18, 2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon.

Next week I am off to two very different locales: Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Bologna, Italy. But would you expect any less from me, dear blogophiles? So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will see me clomping about Yellowstone National Park in hiking boots (Australian and quite on-trend, natch, with bespoke Patagonia duds) and sleeping in a tent (yes, there will be an accompanying visual as this just might be a once-in-a-lifetime activity), and Saturday I shall be ensconced at the Diana restaurant on Bologna’s Via Indipendenza lapping up the pasta in wrap-around Persol shades.

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Monday, July 27, 2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon.

Dear readers, my trip across the pond has drawn to an end, and I am headed back to our fair shores refreshed, renewed and reinvigorated. I lived in England as a child, so my frequent jaunts to Britannia return me to my jeunesse dorée and work wonders for the system when New York’s daily grind gets me down.

As I review my notes from the past ten days, here are some further highlights from a terrific trip:

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Monday, July 20, 2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon.

As my devoted blog-o-philes know, nothing gets me more hot and bothered than a good garden. Better yet, a good garden show where they exhibit all sorts of new plants and whip up vignettes with blooms scattered hither and yon.

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Friday, July 17, 2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon.

I have long been semi-obsessed with Chatsworth, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire located smack in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peaks District. Why, you might ask?

I think my obsession is two-fold:

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Monday, July 13, 2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon.

Oh, how I adore London . . .

The past few days have been super spiffy: From a gorgeous picnic on the grass in the confines of Queen Mary’s gated garden within Regent’s Park (It’s amazing what you can purchase for ten pounds at Marks & Spencer’s food hall—why don’t American department stores offer glorious crab salad and Sauvignon Blanc in mid-size bottles for picnics?) to an amazing dinner at the very luxe Ritz hotel (the last time I dined here I sat just across from Maggie Thatcher, and I nearly fell into her lap on my way back from the loo).

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