The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been reformed since the days of wine lakes and butter mountains.
It is safe, decently priced and the landscapes are stunning - blue lakes and snow -capped mountains, glaciers and the ocean, fiords and beaches.
Our journey would take us northwest, through the Italian lakes and into the mountains for our Stelvio rendezvous.
The only way to get rid of the resulting beef and butter mountains and wine and oil lakes was to subsidise their export, tarnishing Europe's free-trading credentials.
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This helped reduce Europe's reliance on imported food but led before long to over-production, and the creation of "mountains" and "lakes" of surplus food and drink.
Usually the water problem is a natural one of scant rainfall or the absence of topographical means of collection and retention, such as mountains for snowpack or lakes and flowing rivers.
These are pretty patterns of colour, but no more: they merely confirm that things like mountains and lakes are where the map has already told us they are.
The mountains, lakes and vegetation have a myriad of colours from greens to blues to reds depending on the season, and the horizon is unadulterated nature, not a house in sight.
It is made of endless stretches of empty dirt roads surrounded by forests, mountains, glaciers and lakes, with scenic villages, free campsites and hot springs along the way.
Located in the west of Ireland, the region has rugged mountains, salmon-filled lakes and 13th-century abbeys and castles.
We no longer have the wine lakes we remember, the vast butter mountains and other topographical features imposed on different foodstuffs of one sort or another.
Wineries are clustered along the length of the 132-mile long Okanagan Valley, which has a string of lakes running through its middle and is surrounded by mountains on either side.
Along with neighbouring Banff, Jasper is a Unesco World Heritage site, recognised for its beauty, animal and plant life, and staggering variety of landscapes, including glaciers, alpine meadows, steaming hot springs, cerulean lakes and some of the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains.
Here's a young man in his 30s, writing during his summer vacations in the Austrian mountains in the 1890s, with beautiful lakes and forests all around him.
There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.
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