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...It’s also a hub for outdoor activities, with hiking trails, cycle paths and opportunities for rock climbing in the surrounding Peak District....
...Or, if you’re looking to embed a bit in the local community, book a long weekend at Stevenson’s Cottage, an 1870s gold-rush cottage in Arrowtown with a sleek (if diminutive) new addition. rosewoodhotels.com...
...It is a gentle curation of plants, rocks and found objects on the pebbly beach around Prospect Cottage, where the HIV-positive Jarman worked from the 1980s until his death in 1994....
...So, yes, they should have done more . . . but it’s also maybe the teething problems of an industry that went from a cottage industry to a huge one.”...
...When asked what’s farmed in the famously impenetrable Karoo soil, our guide, Katja, deadpans: “Rocks.” “We’ve had drought here for seven years....
...Ghostlord by Philip Womack (Little Island) Mud Cottage seems boring for Meg Lewis after London, until she hears a voice deep in the walls crying for help....
...Her art took a new direction as, from the doorstep of a small cottage, O’Keeffe painted supersized renderings of the spectacular red and yellow desert cliffs....
...In the sunshine there’s a glint of glass from one hilltop mansion; another huge home seems to be embedded in the rock as if hibernating; the curved walls of another have a mid-century modishness....
...We wend past thatched cottages, stern medieval castles atop rocky hills, and along the 78km length of Lake Balaton, which sits on a volcanic soil bed....
...There are four guest bedrooms (and two cottages in the gardens), plus an exhibition space on the lower floor....
...Its Jurassic Coast of ancient dramatic rock formations — Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, Chesil Beach — is a much wilder, less developed stretch than east Dorset....
...Park in the carpark behind the Rock Pool Café to find the tidal pool Directions Mousehole’s tidal pool can be found in a charming historic fishing village full of narrow alleyways and cottages with thatched...
...But for something lighter, I like rock biopics, mainly from the ’70s....
...Its Hideaway Cottage brings all the same service and coddling joys to a more private setting....
...Back at sea, I was happy on the cosy Granit, as it navigated between rocks that rose from the waves like the smooth backs of whales....
...Beyond a joint taste for Windsor chairs, foraged rocks, flowers and semi-precious stones (Rie, he says, would have totally got the spiral of 76 stones arranged on Ede’s bedside table), lies a belief that...
...The six bedrooms upstairs feel big, calm and airy; there are three more in a nearby cottage....
...Book tickets for a summer production at the Minack Theatre, a famous amphitheatre built into the rocks near Land’s End....
...We had one of the 80 new cottages at the Ranch, part of the renovation. While none of the $150mn has seemingly been spent on an exciting architect, our cottage was fine, a muscled up motel room....
...To reach our cottage we climbed an outdoor stone staircase as if to a monastic cell....
...holmenlofoten.no June Landmark Trust heads to Manchester Think of a holiday with the Landmark Trust — the charity that restores historic buildings, then lets them out — and you probably picture a rural cottage...
...In India, the polishers he works with like Savaliya are “a cottage industry . . . And if [they] don’t have systems and processes to prove [non-Russian origin, they] simply cannot sell.”...
...It’s 45 minutes from London by rail, but if you need to stay in Henley, stay at the Hotel du Vin, which is solid as a rock....
...There are sea caves hewn from glittering black rock, bald eagles perched high on clifftop pines, inland vales speckled with poppies and lilac asters....
...It also runs holiday cottages and a plant nursery....
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