The "dairy scene, " a deep scene that required the full stage, was on, and there was no room to hide from the audience by creeping along behind the scenery.

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Both routes to the village of Stanford, 145km southeast of Cape Town, offer the kind of scenery you came to the cape for, snaking through mountain passes or along dramatic coastal roads.

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To kick off, the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail has been upgraded into a major highway that runs along the spine of the country and offers some sublime scenery.

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Sights along the way include Tinkertown (an animated miniature village) and gorgeous desert scenery.

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"The car industry has been driving negotiations all along and European Union politicians have been happy to sit in the passenger seat making comments about the scenery, " said Franziska Achterberg, the pressure group's EU transport policy campaigner.

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