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...As the sun starts to sink we arrive at our campsite, set up ahead of our arrival on the edge of Phomdrong village....
...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...
...Monte Rosa’s iced crests straddle the Italian border. Below the heights are the forests, in orchestras of colour. The larches are the brass section, leading the light in fanfares of gold....
...I’ve always held onto those childhood memories of streams snaking through hazel trees and cows standing in the grass looking lost....
...You can break the ascent halfway with a stop in the pretty village of Menzingen....
...The familiar fronds of artichoke, fennel and Mediterranean herbs rub shoulders with mulberry, hazel, hawthorn and crabapple....
...The army and militias enforced railroad construction and, in some cases, massacred villages....
...The track continues along yet more bucolic coastline: the famous Italianate village of Portmeirion sits close to a later stop....
...Cheon Myeong-kwan’s Whale, a novel of tycoons, ghosts and cinephiles that was first published in South Korea in 2003 and has now been translated into English by Chi-Young Kim, rides the crest of this wave...
...Down an easily missed turning in a village near Bath lies a garden grown from the ruins of industry....
...Then, over the crest of the hill, trailed by dancers, guitars, drums and strings, Crockern comes — a figure twice the size of a normal man, covered in linen and streamers....
...Since late October, a disconsolate muntjac has been hanging round my garden, scuffling up the soil in the copse between my vicarage and the village church....
...Before the transformation For most of its colonial history, Hong Kong was an enclave of wealth and status surrounded by the poor rural farmland and fishing villages of southern China....
...In the light, tight air it appears unobtrusive, even as the sun crests a ridge of volcanoes to spotlight its floating units....
...The motto on San Francisco’s crest reads Oro en paz, fierro en guerra, Spanish for “Gold in peace, iron in war”....
...In the nearby town of Oleksiyivka, Oksana Glushko was handing out food parcels to locals from outside the village hall....
...Not only were artisans ageing and the culture of wearing traditional garments like yukata and kimono on the decline, but each family had its own, unique design – a crest of sorts – and whenever one family...
...“It’s that thing where it does take a village to raise a child,” she says. “Especially if you want to have a job in it.”...
...Graham Peters, co-chair of the Hastings Town Deal board, says the car park at Etchingham station, in a village en route to London, is now only a third or half-full most days....
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...From $165; kasbahbabourika.com Scandinavian style meets Scottish majesty in the Highlands You have to go almost as far north in Scotland as the country itself extends to reach the little village of Tongue...
...Two weeks later, the Austrian alpine village, best known for its raucous après-ski scene, found itself at the crest of the first European wave of Covid-19....
...Further out rags of surf crest the dark waves: here we drop our lines into a plume of bubbles....
...At first, these hills climb sharply from the lush flatland; then, quite suddenly, they crest into a long, straight sandstone plateau that seems to float mysteriously above the low clouds....
...His crest, with lion and mitre, sits above the front door with his motto, Non Nobis, and the date: 1709....
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