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...On the edge of the beach was a naust — a hollow dug into the sand by Vikings to shelter a longboat....
...It was there that their longboats were beached....
...There was nowhere to swim — the sea was over an hour’s drive away....
...Who Luxury Estate, luxuryestate.com, tel: +1 809 697 5117 ——————————————- Ohana, 6633 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Florida, US, $22m Where On the barrier island of Longboat Key, just off the west...
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7861 1065 ——————————————- 5444 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Sarasota, Florida, US, $3.99m Where On Longboat Key, off the west coast of Florida, an hour’s drive...
...And, on the barrier island of Longboat Key just off Sarasota, a three-bedroom beach house is being marketed by RSVP Associates for $979,000....
...Luxury homes are usually on water, be it bay, gulf, or canal, and located on, for example, Casey Key, Longboat Key, the mainland, Siesta Key and, the number one street, Westway Drive,” says Rees....
...So just drive on by – there are many much more interesting places to visit in the UK....
...The Bay was regularly used as a safe harbour by Vikings, who would run their longboats up on to the beach to escape a storm....
...“With God’s help, I’ll be a rich man,” says Joseph Cudjoe, one of a chain of young men hauling a net into a brightly painted longboat beached at the village of Axim....
...Joel, our guide at Sukau, knew a local boatman with laser-like vision who agreed to take us in his longboat on an elephant hunt....
...More competitively priced homes can be found in Samoens, which is part of the vast and varied Grand Massif but is an easy drive away from Chamonix....
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