Outside, the throaty call of a rooster rings out across the farmyard, and a venerable tractor grumbles noisily by.

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The three-star Cabanas Hotel is the most informal and family-friendly option, with facilities including a playground, aviary and farmyard.

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He took a narrow road that ran west, and was discovered twenty miles away as he crawled into a farmyard.

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From the outside, the property looks like any other hay barn with a curved roof, no windows and surrounded by farmyard machinery.

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"I am a retired farmer myself and it is a great shock when you don't see the animals on the farmyard anymore, " he added.

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But crime more acute to rural areas, such as fly-tipping and the theft of farmyard equipment and underground cables, has also been identified as "key crime areas".

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Barrelman Stephen Ward is quick to issue a warning: "Watch your back around Rupert, " he says, as we walk towards the truck that has pulled into the farmyard, its bed piled high with freshly gathered apples.

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The frontier barrier was in our farmyard.

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This was my life, these were the times when I was true: in these half hours here and there when I felt alone in the house, or those fleeting moments out on the road, when I opened a gate and crossed an empty farmyard, a stranger, even to myself, in the quiet of the afternoon.

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