Hints and tips:
...Many words are close to identical: beck (stream), bairn/barn (child), kirk (church), fell/fjell (mountain), dale/dal (valley)....
...“As long as the road is cleared of snow, cyclists will make the most of the route from Bourg-d’Oisans up to Alpe d’Huez,” she adds....
...The northern and western parts of the Dales, which extend into Cumbria, are “properly wild country”, says Milbank, “there are not many houses and when it snows you had better have enough milk for the week...
...Streaks of snow still cling to Snowdonia’s high peaks, but the rain clouds have parted and the slate town of Blaenau Ffestiniog feels almost summery....
...At Richard’s school, the arrival of snow and the northern lights herald a welcome antidote to the darkness. “When the first snow falls, it lifts the atmosphere of the college,” he says....
...A mild winter, a cold spring or late snow can decimate that year’s grouse — and ruin the shooting. Watson is philosophical: “If success is easy to achieve, it’s less appealing most of the time.”...
...In chalets scattered across the snow in California’s ski country, a school of the future is taking shape....
...No wonder, I thought, and still think, that John Turner was cast adrift here, and died in the snow so close to home....
...Last winter, ten men building the hillside set amid snow, driving rain and gales stayed at the Bonny Moorhen pub in Stanhope, providing welcome custom at a time when tourists are rare....
...“We also launched Dale Frank’s new tondo paintings,” said Gary Langsford, “and brought the Bernar Venet sculpture out at the front which is matched by two other works by the French sculptor elsewhere....
...The Wolds have lost out over the years to Yorkshire’s Dales and Moors, both of which are honeypots for tourists and walkers....
...The combination of the distortions from snow, erratic construction data and disruption around the bank holiday are making it hard to judge the true path of the economy....
...Minutes from its last meeting show that Andrew Sentance and Martin Weale, both external members of the committee, as well as Spencer Dale, who is the Bank’s chief economist, called for an increase in interest...
...Meanwhile, confidence among homebuilders waned as snow and competition from foreclosure sales weakened demand....
...The risk of a double-dip recession remains significant following the increase in value added tax in January and the disruptions caused by heavy snow nationwide....
...On the former, recent economic indicators have contained a certain degree of ‘noise’, mostly due to the disruptive influence of the snow....
...Dale and Karen Anderson opened the place – it’s hard to call it a “resort” – in 1962 (the same year Vail opened)....
...He wishes his audience a “happy Branson cowboy Christmas” as artificial snow descends from the ceiling and we leave thinking Jimmy Osmond should take him for a drink....
...The downturn, however, may not have been solely responsible, since record levels of snow also kept consumers at home last month....
...Far, far ahead, where the road peters to a stop and the valley gives out, lies the Andean cordillera, capped with snow and silence. The Elqui Valley could be a poem itself....
...The descent takes you over farmland to join the Limestone Way, which drops steeply through the craggy, secluded valley of Cave Dale....
...Numbers on the higher ground have been disappointing and this is probably due to long cold spells in June and persistent heavy rain and snow.”...
...Snow joke More news from the wildlife of the Outer Hebrides. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ Scottish branch reports the arrival of a pair of snowy owls....
...When I visited Springfield just before Christmas, there was a dusting of snow, like icing sugar over the fields and warehouses around town....
International Edition