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...A ribbon of roofs hunkered on a palm-studded ridge in the lee of a monolithic crag, tightly hemmed by muscular green escarpments, the vast ocean spread out between and beneath....
...Far below, hidden by a ridge of rock, is the cliff-edge eyrie of Mürren, itself a sheer 800m above the Lauterbrunnen valley floor....
...Furnishings were provided by William Morris, a key proponent of the movement. Who Savills and Strutt & Parker House, Brooklyn, NY, US, $8.75mn Where In the Bay Ridge district of Brooklyn....
...By the time I stood in the village of Nina — on the Estonian shore of Lake Peipus — the ice had grown 50cm thick....
...“We’re making a mountain village,” Magnús says. “We want the atmosphere of all being together in the highlands, eating the same food in the same place.”...
...Yaongyimchen, like all Naga villages, perches atop a mountain, its brightly painted wooden houses set along the spine of a ridge. Red splashes of bougainvillea trail over bamboo fences....
...It whisks skiers and pedestrians straight to a new café that teeters on a high ridge of a mountain called the Bellecôte, beyond which the shadowy north face plunges for a vertical mile....
...At the top of Tamazret in a small airy courtyard is Café Ben Jemaa, a lighthouse of hospitality since 1936, now overlooking the bones of its village....
...He was growing up in the village of Heiligenblut, where the spire of the medieval church is as slender as an upturned icicle....
...We walk up and over a small ridge to find a colony of some 70,000 terns....
...We kick crampons between crystal ridges and turquoise slits in the surface. Azure crevasses cut down out of sight as we process into a frozen churn of ridges and bowls....
...By 2pm we had made it to the end of the valley and clambered over the ridge on to the dazzling expanse of the upper Stein glacier, the peak of the Sustenhorn to our right....
...There’s a new gondola and chairlift, the beginners’ area has been moved up to the “Greenhorn Ranch” at mid-mountain, and there are 650 acres of new experts’ terrain at Mahogany Ridge....
...Perfect conditions for bootlegging perhaps, less so for bootpacking up the final ridge....
...an Australian classic.£11.50 The Wine Society Kumeu River, Village Chardonnay 2022 North Island (13%)From the address that makes New Zealand’s answers to fine white burgundy....
...Turning south, the route descends the other side of the ridge of hills that runs down the western side of Lake Zürich. This is a pleasant valley of meadows, pastures and dinky Swiss villages....
...We crossed the equator, passing the occasional abandoned wooden village, the jungle devouring it, evidence of the demographic shift that has seen rural Gabonese head for the major coastal cities of Libreville...
...A better precaution would be to plant circles of walnuts round villages in the future fireline....
...Another personal wine label named after a home village is Tesselaarsdal....
...The window nearest my table frames a verdant world of pasture and potato fields with, at the back of the picture, a jagged ridge of cordillera glittering silver-white with permanent snows....
...tree, like a miniature village green halfway up the mountain....
...Mike and Heather Bunker had grown up in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, and a long time ago had bought land 20 miles north of the seaside town, near the village of Danbury....
...“One of the women of the village had just had a baby. It was three weeks old. We’d shopped for the baby in Mothercare in London. We found it first....
...And in 2021, after having two children, they moved to Marco’s hometown of San Miniato, a hilltop village between Florence and Pisa, where they recently realised their long-held ambition of opening a cooking...
...The army and militias enforced railroad construction and, in some cases, massacred villages....
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