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...Nepal In the first days of May when the rhododendrons are dropping their blood-red petals, a long walk in the eastern Himalayas can feel like you’re stepping into a dream: silver-green lichens hanging from pines...
...In wetter areas, or under intense irrigation, grains and fruit trees are also highly productive. But in the dry hills, olive reigns and gives life to the humans who tend its groves....
...A century later, tall identikit apartment blocks front the shore but a fantasyland of individual holiday homes has sprouted in the pine groves away from the sand: mock-Tudor manor houses with thatched roofs...
...district”....
...And so, one autumn day, I caught the 7.30am train from Euston to Windermere in the Lake District....
...Casa de Mar is an 18th-century fisherman’s cottage that sleeps four and sits among pine trees and olive groves beside San Fruttuoso Abbey....
...droving roads, swimming in trout pools, snoozing in sweet chestnut groves and rolling out my bedding each night....
...With no rivers or excess irrigation water in the area, the planters are relying on pumping loosely regulated sources of groundwater, said Steve Knell, general manager of the Oakdale Irrigation District....
...The surrounding birch groves and pine forests are full of wild mushrooms, especially ceps, and fragrant wild strawberries the size of fingernails. (Just be aware that there are toxic ticks too.)...
...What An estate with 27 acres of vineyards and 130 acres of cork, oak, pine and olive trees....
...If you’re tired of Flying Fish and the other open-window shrimp joints in the River Market district, you can go to elegant Ashley’s in the Capital Hotel....
...of pine trees....
...(Maria says water for irrigation was cut off last year to lower the value of farmland in her district.)...
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