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...Within a heartbeat the city transitions from tram stops and apartment buildings to cowsheds and pastures....
...Climbing the rolling hills around Constantine in Algeria last July, we paused at the top of a ridge....
...There’s a choice of seven or eight lanes up to the ridge, which runs along from Tandridge Hill to Botley Hill, Hogtrough Hill and Brasted Hill....
...Georges pointed out the 19th-century fort on the ridge at 2,390m, the arrival point of what had been La Rosière’s highest lift....
...If you live in a Forestry Commission-controlled area such as the New Forest or the Forest of Dean, special consent is required from the commission to dam a watercourse....
...When it was time to get warm, I stopped for a bombardino — hot brandy, eggnog and cream — at Stadel Soussun, a 500-year-old chalet in a forest glade....
...It doesn’t include accommodation listings but the small hotels, bed and breakfasts and private apartments in the villages along the route are easy enough to find online....
...It translates as forest bathing. You don’t take your phone, you take a walk in the woods.” Also on his mind is the role played by failure....
...Bürgenstock’s hotels and apartments along the ridge either have this breathtaking lake view to the north, or the tapestry of mountains and meadows to the south, and both are the sort of views that make you...
...It’s to that high mountain ridge and the Col d’Altanaria we are headed on our final day — the 700m bottom-to-top, sting in the tail....
...We paused when we spotted a family of steinbock teetering on a ridge above, then again when Bürstegg, an abandoned Walser hamlet, emerged through a gap in the mist....
...What: A three-bedroom house built as a retreat and set in private woodland on the only piece of habitable land within a million acres of old forest....
...The apartments will go up at a rate of up to five a week. Off-site production means Skanska and its partner and client, Forest City Ratner, can cut by more than half the waste created on site....
...Surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains and a short distance from Pisgah National Forest and the Great Smoky Mountains, Asheville, in the US state of North Carolina, is a picturesque hub for outdoor enthusiasts...
...The 3,000-acre area (chosen after consulting a “sacred geometrist”) will have minimal impact on the ski area, only being visible from one ridge line....
...A snow-packed road winds up the mountainside behind the main village of Taos Ski Valley, into dark pine forest....
...What A three-bedroom apartment with approximately 2,128 sq ft of living space....
...LATIN AMERICA Head Apartment in Acquamarina, Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico. $1.2m A beachfront apartment in a modern block in San Juan, 10km from Luis Muñoz Marín airport....
...What A 16-bedroom renovated castle with 35,520 sq ft of living space, two private chapels with frescoes, and 18.5 acres of land (mainly forest)....
...There is also a business opportunity: an additional building with five double rooms and an apartment has already been converted into a B&B....
...“We’re always getting deliveries for the other Windy Ridge in the area and having to redirect them. It gets very confusing.”...
...Accommodation is in a variety of rustic apartments formed from converted farmhouses....
...Northern Idaho is the site of Ruby Ridge, the FBI’s infamously botched 1992 raid on the home of the heavily armed survivalist Randy Weaver and his family....
...Two two-bedroom apartments remain for sale in the Vista Marina development....
...Such a place is the Massif des Maures – the area of heavily forested ridges and hills stretching from Hyères to Fréjus, inland from the Côte d’Azur....
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