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...Stourhead’s lake walk, with the Temple of Apollo and the Pantheon, for instance, traces Aeneas’s journey to Carthage....
...“The longer stretch of open water, the greater potential for lake effect snow,” he added....
...The views of the lowlands are fabulous, with Vaduz, the diminutive capital of Liechtenstein, visible opposite, and the upper Rhine Valley opening out beyond towards Lake Constance, Austria and Germany....
...The lake is close, but only really visible with a bit of neck craning. Or at least, it would be if one could crane....
...At a small ski repair shop on the banks of Lake Tahoe in northern California, staff were turning away customers anxious to patch up their blades for the winter season....
...It doesn’t take much: a hairline fracture hidden by snow, a miscalculated move, checkmate....
...It was presented with luxuriant faux-fur blankets, flasks of warm apple cider, and a chalet dinner overlooking the town’s frozen lake....
...In the corner, a few people tend to a fire; birds perch on the leafless branches overhead while down below we see a frozen lake with people skating and playing....
...Outside the main visitor entrance, sculpture comes into its own with Helen Chadwick’s enamelled white bronze “Piss Flowers”, created from the shapes made by the artist and her partner urinating into snow...
...Just after her escape, the panther lopes towards the viewer across a frozen lake with the Zurich skyline looming on the low horizon....
...An hour or so beyond the second of these, I spot a huddle of tall white cones among the snow-wigged shoreline pines, each sprouting a neat coil of woodsmoke....
...So remarks a fellow passenger to the young Asako, as they look out over Lake Biwa north-east of Kyoto from the window of a passing train....
...Snow ploughs faced the roads with gaping iron mouths, and paths were shovelled clear....
...Ten thousand years ago, a bursting meltwater lake slashed the canyon below us through basalt and black sandstone ridges....
...This winter, creative director Neil Baker jumped in a lake wearing one of the brand’s merino and Tencel base layers, with a friend wearing one in polyester. “The lake was 50 degrees Fahrenheit....
...I’m glad to be here in March, when tourism is slower, even if there’s a heightened risk of storms and snow....
...lap, with his brothers carrying supplies through wildflower meadows on rough wooden rucksacks, and of the villagers coming together for choir practice on a chalet terrace, or for school trips to a nearby lake...
...If the visibility was less than ideal, the snow was fantastic....
...This downbeat ending is lifted by one of Bourne’s staged curtain calls and an ah-inducing fall of snow in the auditorium....
...This Unesco World Heritage site, backed by snow-capped volcanoes, hosts the Hay Arequipa, an offshoot of the British literary festival, and is home to the 16th-century monastery of Santa Catalina, one of...
...A flood that burst through a hydroelectric dam in India’s Himalayan north-east last week killed at least 31 people, the Associated Press reported, when a glacial lake overflowed after a heavy rainfall....
...tall poplars shimmering in the sun, and lakes in improbably vivid shades of turquoise and chalcedony....
...Central Park failed to accumulate an inch of snow, extending a snowless streak that is nearly two years long. It is simply too warm....
...There is also toxic dust left on the bottom of Central Asia’s Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world but now almost entirely evaporated....
...For the more circumspect, the hole is a beauty and, if you’re high enough, you can see snow-covered Mount Baker in Washington State behind the pin....
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