Letters to the Editor

A Flying Paradise

Dear Georgina,

If I were showing off, I’d say I had a blinding flash of inspiration that summer’s day in 1994 when I was bimbling around the skies over the Cotswolds in my then R22 and spotted something intriguing 1,500 feet below me.

I’d tell an amazing but quite untrue story that when I looked down on the series of deserted, overgrown lakes below, I decided on the spot that I would turn it into a globally recognised nature reserve housing an idyllic upmarket vacation village studded discreetly with some of the world’s leading modernist architecture...