Paddle across Lake Constance from Lindau, an impossibly pretty town that is watched over by blue mountains.
The Blue Mountains are a languid work in progress that is, so far, 150 million years in the making.
The Blue Mountains national park is a World Heritage site and covers a million hectares, with huge cliffs, deep rainforest gulleys, sandstone canyons and waterfalls.
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Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains, is a popular beauty spot.
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Park ranger David Noble found the trees in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, where the average rainfall in the mountains in 1, 050mm and 850mm at lower levels.
He grins and continues down the trail into the thick green heart of the Blue Mountains bushland, which continues to be shaped by the endless ravages and renewal of the elements.
Mr Furber was in a group of eight friends who had travelled from Sydney's Bondi area to Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains for a picnic and a walk, News South Wales Police said.
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Like Anston Fivaz in the Blue Mountains, Edwards enjoys showing off the local food purveyors, most of whom gather on Saturday mornings at the Barossa Farmers Market in Angaston to sell their products and catch up on gossip.
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After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
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New South Wales police said the man, who was on holiday in Australia, was in a group of eight friends and had travelled from Sydney's Bondi area to the Blue Mountains for a picnic and a walk along a bush trail.
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Born in Quitman, Texas, Ms. Spacek now lives on a farm at the foot of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Surrounded by 8, 000 acres of land, the Biltmore Estate is a picturesque castle hidden away in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Hanleys had roots near their summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and in Palm Beach, Fla.
We lived up on a big hill overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Nigel and I took jobs as farmhands on a tiny two-acre farm in Virginia a sloppy, rocky field nestled in the folds of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
"Obama is winning men and women in Virginia, and is doing well across the state east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, " CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
From the first, improbable view of Biltmore, looming over a vast lawn and framed by the Blue Ridge Mountains, we know we are in the realm of fantasy.
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In Virginia, as much as 12in of wet snow were forecast to hit coastal areas, while the inland Blue Ridge Mountains and other mountainous areas could receive as much as 21in.
Although the bank's shiny new Manhattan building is a landmark, Lewis does not seek to make the New York social scene, preferring weekends hiking and reading in his Blue Ridge Mountains retreat.
If the president cannot wield some clout in a conservative state within easy range of the White House, the Republicans have a problem that stretches much farther than the Blue Ridge Mountains.
In interviews with The Associated Press, friends and family members described Duncan as a man who grew up in a working class family in Boiling Springs, a rural area at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.
The haze may be blue, but the mountains themselves are decidedly green.
The mountains shimmer blue when the sun hits the eucalyptus vapors from the trees, at night, the dense star patterns of the Southern Hemisphere sky also shimmer in the clearest skies, and crossing the path to your cottage at night, you may well encounter a wombat, wallaby or kangaroo the 4000 acres are filled with them.
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If you check in from the Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg, you'll see this tip from CNN South Africa Correspondent Robyn Curnow: The bar has a wonderful view over the treetops of the suburbs, the Johannesburg skyline and, on a clear night, the blue rim of the Magaliesberg Mountains.
It is safe, decently priced and the landscapes are stunning - blue lakes and snow -capped mountains, glaciers and the ocean, fiords and beaches.
Beyond, purple-shaded mountains rise from the deep blue mist like ships floating on water.
Rio de Janeiro is almost impossibly marvellous, with its curving white beaches and city neighbourhoods studded with green-shrouded mountains, all facing the blue depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
Shijo Bridge, in front of you, might be the ground zero of Kyoto old and new: a monk is standing, stock-still, collecting coins, and the mountains to the north are blue in the dusk.
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