How can you enjoy a life on the ocean waves when it\u2019s costing you \u00a31,000 an hour?<\/p>\n
I went to Barcelona for a few days early in the new year. It was nice \u2013 chilly, but with a suggestion of warmth in the sun. And there were colours to be seen that weren\u2019t any shade of grey. I felt blessed, but a little guilty not to be back in the monochrome winter of my northern European homeland, sloping miserably back to work like\u00a0everyone else. My privilege was weighing heavy. But then I saw\u00a0the\u00a0superyachts.<\/p>\n
The first one I noticed was the 105-metre Lady Moura, which, according to its Wikipedia page, was the ninth-largest private yacht in the world when it was launched in 1990. A Saudi billionaire, Nasser al-Rashid, apparently paid $200m for it.<\/p>\n
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