This is what the famous musician Yehudi Menuhin writes about himself.

§ 1. Being a touring musician is a bit like being a sailor. It's constant motion, a continuous routine of settling into new hotels and meeting new people. So my ideal holiday is enjoying being alone with my wife.

§ 2. My earliest memory of a holiday was when I was five. We had just bought our first car, and drove joyously from San Francisco, exploring the most beautiful parts of California. It was a wonderful experience. I vividly remember the beautiful Yosemite valley, a place of waterfalls and beautiful mountains, a wilderness before we polluted it with cars and noisy stereo systems. As a child I collected photographs of those huge railway engines that pulled hundreds of goods wagons across America. These trains were like monsters, with groups of four wheels on each side. For Americans trains are hugely romantic. My first train journey across America was when I was eight years old. During the day I sat at the window watching the scenery fly past. At night I always had the top bunk bed in the sleeping compartment. I would scramble up to read in bed, feeling cosy and contented as the train rhythmically travelled over the rails through the night.

§ 3. Since then I've worked and studied for many hours on trains, enjoying the view and the sense of timelessness. I loved the smell of steel upon steel mixed up with the smell of the countryside. I loved the sound of the engine's horn, which used to remind me of the ferries which crept along in between the ships in San Francisco Bay on foggy nights. I have been lucky travelling all over the world and managing, just occasionally, to take a few days actually to see something more than just the airport, hotel and concert hall. When my wife and I were in Peru, we took three days off and flew in a small plane to the mountains where we spent a wonderful time walking and exploring in the jungle.

§ 4. Forty years ago we bought a small house on a Greek island and went there whenever we could. Initially there were just a few carts, and everything was transported on the back of a donkey or a man. We had a tiny cottage with a lovely garden of fruit trees where we used to pick grapes and oranges. We spent a lot of time on the beach  — as I love swimming  — and in the village getting to know people. After ten or fifteen years we were firmly involved in the community, able to share a totally different world, different language, different music.

This is what the famous musician Yehudi Menuhin writes about himself.

§ 1. Being a touring musician is a bit like being a sailor. It's constant motion, a continuous routine of settling into new hotels and meeting new people. So my ideal holiday is enjoying being alone with my wife.

§ 2. My earliest memory of a holiday was when I was five. We had just bought our first car, and drove joyously from San Francisco, exploring the most beautiful parts of California. It was a wonderful experience. I vividly remember the beautiful Yosemite valley, a place of waterfalls and beautiful mountains, a wilderness before we polluted it with cars and noisy stereo systems. As a child I collected photographs of those huge railway engines that pulled hundreds of goods wagons across America. These trains were like monsters, with groups of four wheels on each side. For Americans trains are hugely romantic. My first train journey across America was when I was eight years old. During the day I sat at the window watching the scenery fly past. At night I always had the top bunk bed in the sleeping compartment. I would scramble up to read in bed, feeling cosy and contented as the train rhythmically travelled over the rails through the night.

§ 3. Since then I've worked and studied for many hours on trains, enjoying the view and the sense of timelessness. I loved the smell of steel upon steel mixed up with the smell of the countryside. I loved the sound of the engine's horn, which used to remind me of the ferries which crept along in between the ships in San Francisco Bay on foggy nights. I have been lucky travelling all over the world and managing, just occasionally, to take a few days actually to see something more than just the airport, hotel and concert hall. When my wife and I were in Peru, we took three days off and flew in a small plane to the mountains where we spent a wonderful time walking and exploring in the jungle.

§ 4. Forty years ago we bought a small house on a Greek island and went there whenever we could. Initially there were just a few carts, and everything was transported on the back of a donkey or a man. We had a tiny cottage with a lovely garden of fruit trees where we used to pick grapes and oranges. We spent a lot of time on the beach  — as I love swimming  — and in the village getting to know people. After ten or fifteen years we were firmly involved in the community, able to share a totally different world, different language, different music.

This is what the famous musician Yehudi Menuhin writes about himself.

§ 1. Being a touring musician is a bit like being a sailor. It's constant motion, a continuous routine of settling into new hotels and meeting new people. So my ideal holiday is enjoying being alone with my wife.

§ 2. My earliest memory of a holiday was when I was five. We had just bought our first car, and drove joyously from San Francisco, exploring the most beautiful parts of California. It was a wonderful experience. I vividly remember the beautiful Yosemite valley, a place of waterfalls and beautiful mountains, a wilderness before we polluted it with cars and noisy stereo systems. As a child I collected photographs of those huge railway engines that pulled hundreds of goods wagons across America. These trains were like monsters, with groups of four wheels on each side. For Americans trains are hugely romantic. My first train journey across America was when I was eight years old. During the day I sat at the window watching the scenery fly past. At night I always had the top bunk bed in the sleeping compartment. I would scramble up to read in bed, feeling cosy and contented as the train rhythmically travelled over the rails through the night.

§ 3. Since then I've worked and studied for many hours on trains, enjoying the view and the sense of timelessness. I loved the smell of steel upon steel mixed up with the smell of the countryside. I loved the sound of the engine's horn, which used to remind me of the ferries which crept along in between the ships in San Francisco Bay on foggy nights. I have been lucky travelling all over the world and managing, just occasionally, to take a few days actually to see something more than just the airport, hotel and concert hall. When my wife and I were in Peru, we took three days off and flew in a small plane to the mountains where we spent a wonderful time walking and exploring in the jungle.

§ 4. Forty years ago we bought a small house on a Greek island and went there whenever we could. Initially there were just a few carts, and everything was transported on the back of a donkey or a man. We had a tiny cottage with a lovely garden of fruit trees where we used to pick grapes and oranges. We spent a lot of time on the beach  — as I love swimming  — and in the village getting to know people. After ten or fifteen years we were firmly involved in the community, able to share a totally different world, different language, different music.

This is what the famous musician Yehudi Menuhin writes about himself.

§ 1. Being a touring musician is a bit like being a sailor. It's constant motion, a continuous routine of settling into new hotels and meeting new people. So my ideal holiday is enjoying being alone with my wife.

§ 2. My earliest memory of a holiday was when I was five. We had just bought our first car, and drove joyously from San Francisco, exploring the most beautiful parts of California. It was a wonderful experience. I vividly remember the beautiful Yosemite valley, a place of waterfalls and beautiful mountains, a wilderness before we polluted it with cars and noisy stereo systems. As a child I collected photographs of those huge railway engines that pulled hundreds of goods wagons across America. These trains were like monsters, with groups of four wheels on each side. For Americans trains are hugely romantic. My first train journey across America was when I was eight years old. During the day I sat at the window watching the scenery fly past. At night I always had the top bunk bed in the sleeping compartment. I would scramble up to read in bed, feeling cosy and contented as the train rhythmically travelled over the rails through the night.

§ 3. Since then I've worked and studied for many hours on trains, enjoying the view and the sense of timelessness. I loved the smell of steel upon steel mixed up with the smell of the countryside. I loved the sound of the engine's horn, which used to remind me of the ferries which crept along in between the ships in San Francisco Bay on foggy nights. I have been lucky travelling all over the world and managing, just occasionally, to take a few days actually to see something more than just the airport, hotel and concert hall. When my wife and I were in Peru, we took three days off and flew in a small plane to the mountains where we spent a wonderful time walking and exploring in the jungle.

§ 4. Forty years ago we bought a small house on a Greek island and went there whenever we could. Initially there were just a few carts, and everything was transported on the back of a donkey or a man. We had a tiny cottage with a lovely garden of fruit trees where we used to pick grapes and oranges. We spent a lot of time on the beach  — as I love swimming  — and in the village getting to know people. After ten or fifteen years we were firmly involved in the community, able to share a totally different world, different language, different music.

By 1942, when Caroline was twenty and (1) ... the life of a middle- aged matron for three years, she was so desperate that she was seriously planning to run away. She (2) ... reading (although she (3) ... what was almost an addiction to women’s magazines, her favourite being Woman & Beauty), she hated sewing, and her only real pleasure was playing the piano. She (4) ... quite a talented pianist at school, and (5) ... several medals at classical musical festivals, but it was not the music of Chopin and Bach and Brahms that filled the house now, but songs from the hit parade. ‘In the Mood’ was to be heard particularly frequently coming from the music room. Caroline (6) ... that she was growing a little tired of the tune; Jacqueline (7) ... both hands cut off rather than stop playing it at length daily after that. She had very few opportunities for revenge.

By 1942, when Caroline was twenty and (1) ... the life of a middle- aged matron for three years, she was so desperate that she was seriously planning to run away. She (2) ... reading (although she (3) ... what was almost an addiction to women’s magazines, her favourite being Woman & Beauty), she hated sewing, and her only real pleasure was playing the piano. She (4) ... quite a talented pianist at school, and (5) ... several medals at classical musical festivals, but it was not the music of Chopin and Bach and Brahms that filled the house now, but songs from the hit parade. ‘In the Mood’ was to be heard particularly frequently coming from the music room. Caroline (6) ... that she was growing a little tired of the tune; Jacqueline (7) ... both hands cut off rather than stop playing it at length daily after that. She had very few opportunities for revenge.

By 1942, when Caroline was twenty and (1) ... the life of a middle- aged matron for three years, she was so desperate that she was seriously planning to run away. She (2) ... reading (although she (3) ... what was almost an addiction to women’s magazines, her favourite being Woman & Beauty), she hated sewing, and her only real pleasure was playing the piano. She (4) ... quite a talented pianist at school, and (5) ... several medals at classical musical festivals, but it was not the music of Chopin and Bach and Brahms that filled the house now, but songs from the hit parade. ‘In the Mood’ was to be heard particularly frequently coming from the music room. Caroline (6) ... that she was growing a little tired of the tune; Jacqueline (7) ... both hands cut off rather than stop playing it at length daily after that. She had very few opportunities for revenge.

By 1942, when Caroline was twenty and (1) ... the life of a middle- aged matron for three years, she was so desperate that she was seriously planning to run away. She (2) ... reading (although she (3) ... what was almost an addiction to women’s magazines, her favourite being Woman & Beauty), she hated sewing, and her only real pleasure was playing the piano. She (4) ... quite a talented pianist at school, and (5) ... several medals at classical musical festivals, but it was not the music of Chopin and Bach and Brahms that filled the house now, but songs from the hit parade. ‘In the Mood’ was to be heard particularly frequently coming from the music room. Caroline (6) ... that she was growing a little tired of the tune; Jacqueline (7) ... both hands cut off rather than stop playing it at length daily after that. She had very few opportunities for revenge.

An interview with a couple who own a holiday home in the French Pyrenees

Why did you decide to buy a holiday home here?

We have always loved travelling and spending time in different countries on holidays. It made sense to us to have somewhere which was our own, where we could go back to again and again whenever we liked. (1)_________ It has everything we were looking for: mountains, beautiful scenery, good countryside for walking and there are towns and a major city nearby. We looked at some very remote places but decided we wanted to be in a town. We enjoy being able to walk down to the shops in the morning to get fresh bread and walk to a restaurant for dinner in the evening. It was important to us that it was easy to get to for short holidays too so the fact that there is an airport nearby was a key factor. (2)____________ We love both of our houses even though they are very different in style and in very different places.

How did you find this particular property?

We did some research into the area we liked and we looked at adverts on the Internet. Then we went to an agency which specialised in property in the area where we were looking. They were really helpful and in three days they took us to a number of different houses as well as some empty plots of land with potential for building a new property. (3)_________ We spent time talking to the couple who were selling it and looking around the garden в as well as the house. It’s not a big house; there are only two bedrooms, but it is exactly what we were looking for. It has a fantastic terrace with views of the mountains. It's very picturesque. In fact it is a beautiful place to have a holiday at any time of the year.

What do you like most about owning a second home?

(4)___________ We spend lots of holidays here ourselves and sometimes friends and family join us, but we also let friends and family stay in it by themselves if they want to. It means the house is occupied more, and the more it is used the better. We also like that we have met some good friends here. (5)_________ It means we don’t feel like strangers when we’re here. Another thing we like is that there is always somewhere new to visit and explore as well as favourite places to go back to.

Would you like to move and live here permanently?

No. We have too much that we would miss back home: good friends and family. (6)________We might come for a month or more at a time instead of a week or two as we do now. But we bought it as a holiday home or second home not somewhere to live all the time. We like having both our homes and don’t want to give up either of them.

An interview with a couple who own a holiday home in the French Pyrenees

Why did you decide to buy a holiday home here?

We have always loved travelling and spending time in different countries on holidays. It made sense to us to have somewhere which was our own, where we could go back to again and again whenever we liked. (1)_________ It has everything we were looking for: mountains, beautiful scenery, good countryside for walking and there are towns and a major city nearby. We looked at some very remote places but decided we wanted to be in a town. We enjoy being able to walk down to the shops in the morning to get fresh bread and walk to a restaurant for dinner in the evening. It was important to us that it was easy to get to for short holidays too so the fact that there is an airport nearby was a key factor. (2)____________ We love both of our houses even though they are very different in style and in very different places.

How did you find this particular property?

We did some research into the area we liked and we looked at adverts on the Internet. Then we went to an agency which specialised in property in the area where we were looking. They were really helpful and in three days they took us to a number of different houses as well as some empty plots of land with potential for building a new property. (3)_________ We spent time talking to the couple who were selling it and looking around the garden в as well as the house. It’s not a big house; there are only two bedrooms, but it is exactly what we were looking for. It has a fantastic terrace with views of the mountains. It's very picturesque. In fact it is a beautiful place to have a holiday at any time of the year.

What do you like most about owning a second home?

(4)___________ We spend lots of holidays here ourselves and sometimes friends and family join us, but we also let friends and family stay in it by themselves if they want to. It means the house is occupied more, and the more it is used the better. We also like that we have met some good friends here. (5)_________ It means we don’t feel like strangers when we’re here. Another thing we like is that there is always somewhere new to visit and explore as well as favourite places to go back to.

Would you like to move and live here permanently?

No. We have too much that we would miss back home: good friends and family. (6)________We might come for a month or more at a time instead of a week or two as we do now. But we bought it as a holiday home or second home not somewhere to live all the time. We like having both our homes and don’t want to give up either of them.

An interview with a couple who own a holiday home in the French Pyrenees

Why did you decide to buy a holiday home here?

We have always loved travelling and spending time in different countries on holidays. It made sense to us to have somewhere which was our own, where we could go back to again and again whenever we liked. (1)_________ It has everything we were looking for: mountains, beautiful scenery, good countryside for walking and there are towns and a major city nearby. We looked at some very remote places but decided we wanted to be in a town. We enjoy being able to walk down to the shops in the morning to get fresh bread and walk to a restaurant for dinner in the evening. It was important to us that it was easy to get to for short holidays too so the fact that there is an airport nearby was a key factor. (2)____________ We love both of our houses even though they are very different in style and in very different places.

How did you find this particular property?

We did some research into the area we liked and we looked at adverts on the Internet. Then we went to an agency which specialised in property in the area where we were looking. They were really helpful and in three days they took us to a number of different houses as well as some empty plots of land with potential for building a new property. (3)_________ We spent time talking to the couple who were selling it and looking around the garden в as well as the house. It’s not a big house; there are only two bedrooms, but it is exactly what we were looking for. It has a fantastic terrace with views of the mountains. It's very picturesque. In fact it is a beautiful place to have a holiday at any time of the year.

What do you like most about owning a second home?

(4)___________ We spend lots of holidays here ourselves and sometimes friends and family join us, but we also let friends and family stay in it by themselves if they want to. It means the house is occupied more, and the more it is used the better. We also like that we have met some good friends here. (5)_________ It means we don’t feel like strangers when we’re here. Another thing we like is that there is always somewhere new to visit and explore as well as favourite places to go back to.

Would you like to move and live here permanently?

No. We have too much that we would miss back home: good friends and family. (6)________We might come for a month or more at a time instead of a week or two as we do now. But we bought it as a holiday home or second home not somewhere to live all the time. We like having both our homes and don’t want to give up either of them.

What is the secret of long life? Reducing calorie intake by 30 per cent is thought to lead to a longer lifespan, but for many, this can mean (1) ... a starvation-like diet. However, scientists are now developing a drug which they believe can switch on a particular gene that has the same effect without the pain. A recent (2) ... of centenarians (дол­го­жи­те­ли) found, though, that many in the over-100 age group had led unhealthy lifestyles for a long period of their lives. For these people a long life is the (3) ... of a longevity gene and scientists have been working on a drug that can imitate this gene. Or is it all down to the mind? Some scientists believe that if we "think" younger our bodies will follow. Research has shown that by (4) ... people imagine they are twenty years younger, many of the (5) ... of ageing actually go into reverse.

What is the secret of long life? Reducing calorie intake by 30 per cent is thought to lead to a longer lifespan, but for many, this can mean (1) ... a starvation-like diet. However, scientists are now developing a drug which they believe can switch on a particular gene that has the same effect without the pain. A recent (2) ... of centenarians (дол­го­жи­те­ли) found, though, that many in the over-100 age group had led unhealthy lifestyles for a long period of their lives. For these people a long life is the (3) ... of a longevity gene and scientists have been working on a drug that can imitate this gene. Or is it all down to the mind? Some scientists believe that if we "think" younger our bodies will follow. Research has shown that by (4) ... people imagine they are twenty years younger, many of the (5) ... of ageing actually go into reverse.

What is the secret of long life? Reducing calorie intake by 30 per cent is thought to lead to a longer lifespan, but for many, this can mean (1) ... a starvation-like diet. However, scientists are now developing a drug which they believe can switch on a particular gene that has the same effect without the pain. A recent (2) ... of centenarians (дол­го­жи­те­ли) found, though, that many in the over-100 age group had led unhealthy lifestyles for a long period of their lives. For these people a long life is the (3) ... of a longevity gene and scientists have been working on a drug that can imitate this gene. Or is it all down to the mind? Some scientists believe that if we "think" younger our bodies will follow. Research has shown that by (4) ... people imagine they are twenty years younger, many of the (5) ... of ageing actually go into reverse.

What is the secret of long life? Reducing calorie intake by 30 per cent is thought to lead to a longer lifespan, but for many, this can mean (1) ... a starvation-like diet. However, scientists are now developing a drug which they believe can switch on a particular gene that has the same effect without the pain. A recent (2) ... of centenarians (дол­го­жи­те­ли) found, though, that many in the over-100 age group had led unhealthy lifestyles for a long period of their lives. For these people a long life is the (3) ... of a longevity gene and scientists have been working on a drug that can imitate this gene. Or is it all down to the mind? Some scientists believe that if we "think" younger our bodies will follow. Research has shown that by (4) ... people imagine they are twenty years younger, many of the (5) ... of ageing actually go into reverse.

Canada is a massive country (1) ... of wide-open spaces. With scenery that is truly magnificent, it is without doubt one of the great unspoilt areas of the world. If you have the chance, (2) ... sure you go to Niagara Falls (3) ... are the top attraction in North America and one of the most spectacular sights anywhere.

Canada is a massive country (1) ... of wide-open spaces. With scenery that is truly magnificent, it is without doubt one of the great unspoilt areas of the world. If you have the chance, (2) ... sure you go to Niagara Falls (3) ... are the top attraction in North America and one of the most spectacular sights anywhere.

Canada is a massive country (1) ... of wide-open spaces. With scenery that is truly magnificent, it is without doubt one of the great unspoilt areas of the world. If you have the chance, (2) ... sure you go to Niagara Falls (3) ... are the top attraction in North America and one of the most spectacular sights anywhere.

1.  She described the whole play to us ... detail.

2.  Both my sons are crazy ... old motorbikes.

3.  The restaurant prides itself ... having the best pizza in town.

4.  There are so ... lemons in the fridge that I can't make lemonade.

5.  ... Susan use to be slim when she was at university?

6.  Bob Dylan ... original name was Robert Zimmerman won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.

1.  She described the whole play to us ... detail.

2.  Both my sons are crazy ... old motorbikes.

3.  The restaurant prides itself ... having the best pizza in town.

4.  There are so ... lemons in the fridge that I can't make lemonade.

5.  ... Susan use to be slim when she was at university?

6.  Bob Dylan ... original name was Robert Zimmerman won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.

1.  She described the whole play to us ... detail.

2.  Both my sons are crazy ... old motorbikes.

3.  The restaurant prides itself ... having the best pizza in town.

4.  There are so ... lemons in the fridge that I can't make lemonade.

5.  ... Susan use to be slim when she was at university?

6.  Bob Dylan ... original name was Robert Zimmerman won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.

1.  She described the whole play to us ... detail.

2.  Both my sons are crazy ... old motorbikes.

3.  The restaurant prides itself ... having the best pizza in town.

4.  There are so ... lemons in the fridge that I can't make lemonade.

5.  ... Susan use to be slim when she was at university?

6.  Bob Dylan ... original name was Robert Zimmerman won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.

1.  The Internet became much available to the public in the 1990s. In 1994, the Stanford

2.  Federal Credit Union was the first bank in the world to offer it’s online Internet banking.

3.  By 1995, people around the world were starting themselves to have the Internet in

4.  their homes. The Internet in those days which was very slow because they had to

5.  use it a dial-up connection. The computer needed to use a telephone line and sent

6.  every noisy signals like a fax machine does. One of the problems was that if you

7.  were using the Internet, you couldn’t then to make or receive phone calls. Over

8.  the years, the Internet has became faster and faster as there was no need to use

9.  the telephone line for the Internet. Today, the Internet connects either computers

10.  and other gadgets in a network millions of times very bigger than the original one.

1.  The Internet became much available to the public in the 1990s. In 1994, the Stanford

2.  Federal Credit Union was the first bank in the world to offer it’s online Internet banking.

3.  By 1995, people around the world were starting themselves to have the Internet in

4.  their homes. The Internet in those days which was very slow because they had to

5.  use it a dial-up connection. The computer needed to use a telephone line and sent

6.  every noisy signals like a fax machine does. One of the problems was that if you

7.  were using the Internet, you couldn’t then to make or receive phone calls. Over

8.  the years, the Internet has became faster and faster as there was no need to use

9.  the telephone line for the Internet. Today, the Internet connects either computers

10.  and other gadgets in a network millions of times very bigger than the original one.

1.  The Internet became much available to the public in the 1990s. In 1994, the Stanford

2.  Federal Credit Union was the first bank in the world to offer it’s online Internet banking.

3.  By 1995, people around the world were starting themselves to have the Internet in

4.  their homes. The Internet in those days which was very slow because they had to

5.  use it a dial-up connection. The computer needed to use a telephone line and sent

6.  every noisy signals like a fax machine does. One of the problems was that if you

7.  were using the Internet, you couldn’t then to make or receive phone calls. Over

8.  the years, the Internet has became faster and faster as there was no need to use

9.  the telephone line for the Internet. Today, the Internet connects either computers

10.  and other gadgets in a network millions of times very bigger than the original one.

1.  The Internet became much available to the public in the 1990s. In 1994, the Stanford

2.  Federal Credit Union was the first bank in the world to offer it’s online Internet banking.

3.  By 1995, people around the world were starting themselves to have the Internet in

4.  their homes. The Internet in those days which was very slow because they had to

5.  use it a dial-up connection. The computer needed to use a telephone line and sent

6.  every noisy signals like a fax machine does. One of the problems was that if you

7.  were using the Internet, you couldn’t then to make or receive phone calls. Over

8.  the years, the Internet has became faster and faster as there was no need to use

9.  the telephone line for the Internet. Today, the Internet connects either computers

10.  and other gadgets in a network millions of times very bigger than the original one.

The best way to keep well is to avoid (1) ... foods and habits. It is also helpful to take plenty of exercise, and we should give (2) ... to people of all ages to do this, particularly the very young. If we can educate people at an early age to keep fit and to look after themselves carefully, then the (3) ... of their having problems in later life will be (4) ... reduced.

The best way to keep well is to avoid (1) ... foods and habits. It is also helpful to take plenty of exercise, and we should give (2) ... to people of all ages to do this, particularly the very young. If we can educate people at an early age to keep fit and to look after themselves carefully, then the (3) ... of their having problems in later life will be (4) ... reduced.

The best way to keep well is to avoid (1) ... foods and habits. It is also helpful to take plenty of exercise, and we should give (2) ... to people of all ages to do this, particularly the very young. If we can educate people at an early age to keep fit and to look after themselves carefully, then the (3) ... of their having problems in later life will be (4) ... reduced.

The best way to keep well is to avoid (1) ... foods and habits. It is also helpful to take plenty of exercise, and we should give (2) ... to people of all ages to do this, particularly the very young. If we can educate people at an early age to keep fit and to look after themselves carefully, then the (3) ... of their having problems in later life will be (4) ... reduced.