On land, barely travelled roads link quiet settlements of thatched and whitewashed houses, moorland valleys and rocky mountains.
Inviting chaises longues flank a small pool, and thatched roofs cover an open- air dining area.
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The blaze severely damaged a row of historic thatched cottages in Crediton in February 2012.
Around the thatched-roofed parliamentary buildings an assortment of tents house delegations from Fiji's provinces.
The centre, in an existing thatched barn, will include a shop, exhibition and community space.
Thatched bungalows are scattered about a landscaped compound dominated by a cliffside infinity pool.
The Sayers Croft Trust used the thatched structure in Ewhurst village, Cranleigh, as an educational resource.
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They eat mangoes, bananas and carrots, and cool themselves under little thatched huts Mr. Monge built.
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The villages of the Bediks are formed by dense groups of huts with steeped thatched roofs.
Thousand of houses have been destroyed, mostly thatched huts belonging to villagers along the coast, our correspondent adds.
Built in the image of a Ukrainian thatched-roof hut, it stands opposite another intellectual landmark, Taras Shevchenko University.
That night, the wind was up, and the bough of an ash thumped and scraped across the thatched roof.
"Look at Ernie's beautiful house by the 16th hole with his thatched roof and superb plaster work, " continued Casey.
The lodge comprises of thatched or canvas en suite tents with verandas, and the full rate also covers nature drives and guided visits.
When Miss O'Sullivan first came to Hollywood the publicists said she was born in a thatched cottage in Ireland and spoke Gaelic.
The huts, made of chalk and straw daub and wheat-thatched roofing, have been based on archaeological remains found at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge.
But Brig Gen Edokpaye disputed this, saying Boko Haram's weapons had exploded, causing "fire to about 30 thatched houses in the predominantly fishing community".
The Sayers Croft Trust, which used the thatched roundhouse as an educational resource, has planned a coppicing day to be held on 19 January.
You enter by walking into a thatched roof pavilion at the end of an otherwise innocuous but beautiful pier, and then descend a spiral staircase.
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People can comment until 3 December on plans to convert the thatched barn at the site to house displays about the area's archaeology and wildlife.
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The more laid-back of the two lodges, aptly named Safari Lodge, consists of thatched-roof cottages nestled down in the African landscape, some accessed only by swing bridges.
Dan Isaacs of the BBC World Service has done his last radio broadcast from the open thatched shelter that he has been using alongside the media centre.
With the fake thatched hut, tribal dancers in grass skirts and 20-foot outrigger canoe onstage, you might think you were in the middle of homecoming at Honolulu High.
The best place to saddle up with a board is at the thatched shack beside the tourist information centre in Hangaroa, easily spotted by its bright orange walls.
Listen to the sound of rustling palms as you sprawl out under a thatched hut at sunset, and continue to stretch your legs-only this time, in your bathtub-before dinner.
Nothing is tied onto the roof, as you would in a modern thatched building but the wheat straw that we've used is knotted and then tucked into a woven framework.
The most distinctive is the Pavilion, a stand-alone thatched cottage with two bedrooms near the putting green (and one of the three where Gidleigh allows your dog to bunk in).
This 18-acre Oracabessa, Jamaica, retreat is where writer Ian Fleming penned 14 of his James Bond novels, and the thatched-roof villas are named after some of the fictional spy's love interests.
In Caithness, LiDAR revealed fields where medieval and later rig and furrow systems overlie much earlier agricultural use as well as the remains of 3, 000-year-old low-walled, thatched roofed houses called hut circles.
Originally from Milan, she and her husband bought a plot of land near La Playita beach and in 2006 built Chalet Tropical: three two-storey thatched-roof bungalows, handcrafted by locals with wood interiors and stone bathrooms.
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