Hints and tips:
...I want to be able to sleep at night confident of what I have in the ground rather than buy vines from a commercial nursery.” “Does your father think you’re crazy?” I couldn’t help but ask....
...That night I sleep like a dead man, untroubled by djinns. The coast is as though on a different planet from the mountains we have left behind, but just as dramatic in its way, both wild and sublime....
...The effort usually offers the ultimate reward of skiing virgin powder in almost total isolation, with no one in sight apart from the occasional Alpine ibex or Chamois mountain goat watching from their rocky...
...To live here is to live a life on foot, scrambling along tracks that are rocky and bound by precipitous drops, sometimes barely wide enough to walk single file, troubled by rockfall and seasonal washouts...
...It included photos of sunsets, huge pumpkins, flowers and mountains. In one photo, brightly coloured red peppers chargrill on a barbecue....
...Also, knowing there was a German garrison in Boutx, they had to slow down their descent, arrive at night, cross the road in silence and then find a place to sleep on rocky, damp ground before making a dawn...
...Only on the last day do we drop from the mountains, after pushing our bikes for the final, rocky kilometre of a pass....
...With limited places available on the retreats, people kept asking Allegra whether they could stay at the house (which sleeps 12) as paying guests. “Eventually I thought: Why not?...
...Sleeps up to four, from $200 a night; a cook costs $30 per day (airbnb.com/h/ushawishikilifi) Disappointment A line-item in my annual accounts I’ve just signed off....
...I leave Kirsten and Bobby to go ahead on the descent to Garrigill, a long rocky track off the back of Cross Fell....
...Then there is the Kaokoland, a marriage of immense dunes and rocky striated mountains carved by glaciers hundreds of millions of years ago that culminates in the Skeleton Coast....
...And that led to lots of predictions that maybe it was the mountain peaked, maybe at the end of the oil era....
...The rocky path is lined with supporters as far as I can see....
...The Rocky Mountains and northwestern states are also hotspots. Idaho has 45 per cent more Covid ICU patients than it did last winter, while Montana and Wyoming have also surpassed their winter peaks....
...Dude ranches In the Rockies west of Denver, the C Lazy U ranch has been welcoming visitors for a taste of cowboy life since the 1920s....
...Then we wound along the coast, through tunnels of Monterey cypress, past jagged cliffs fringed with soft bulrushes, along rocky bays and green mountains populated with woolly cows....
...Then stroll along Upper Mountain Avenue, passing Gatsby-esque mansions set back on ample lawns....
...Once you give up the heavy hiking boots and hulking backpack, it is surprising how quickly you can move through the mountains. In no time we reach the top of the rise and the rocky route unfurls ahead....
...Want a mountain bike? Forget it while global supply chains remain tight. “We can’t keep up,” says Heather Mason, president of the National Bicycle Dealers Association....
...Molly Keane’s childhood home, Ballyrankin in County Wexford, which had a view over the River Slaney towards the Blackstairs Mountains, was also burned down by the IRA in July 1921....
...The mountain trail is rocky and often straight up and down, but my horse – a stout mare named Tick – is metronomically steady on her feet....
...Ronay lies on the east side of the Outer Hebrides and is rocky and barren apart from one patch of flat land at the head of a hidden cove, where there is a whitewashed house that sleeps 10....
...And if you remain unrefreshed despite extending your sleep opportunity to eight hours or more, then you may have a sleep disorder, and you should see a doctor....
...“I’ve never seen so much powder here, and so few people on the mountain. But we’re running a business, so it can be hard to sleep at night, even if I know we’re luckier than many.”...
...It felt sacrilegious to close the blinds on such a world, so I drifted in and out of sleep measuring the night not by my watch but by the transit of Venus, hopping from peak to peak....
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