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...My daughter and her one-year-old brother played in the stream, then as the sun began to dip behind the peaks, sending shafts of light over the high ridge, it was time to walk back down....
...Accessed by skidoo or on skis, it offers eight cosy rooms, guaranteed peace and such specialities as venison with juniper berries and lamb with polenta....
...This is halfway; I continue up past the tumbledown remains of shepherds’ huts to reach the snow drifts on the ridge....
...We walked along a narrow ridge, high above the sea, the limestone underfoot formed into breadknife serrations and requiring the channelling of my inner goat....
...The aircraft descends, and the snowy ridges give way to forested ones. Through gaps in the cloud we see deep valleys, terraced fields and lonely monasteries, clinging to dusty hillsides....
...We left the hut the next morning, walking out along a curving valley filled with granite boulders and juniper bushes, from which arose the scent of gin....
...The Libyan Sea, a brilliant turquoise, fringes low hills covered with juniper bushes and half-a-dozen sandy beaches....
...For the moment the land is virgin apart from the dry-stone walls that cross a ridge covered with juniper and myrtle....
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