Beneath it, stretching all the way to the feet of Ubirr, lies a huge and perfectly flat, lettuce-green flood plain, through which the lazy curves of the East Alligator River meander.

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The Soviet legend, now with a sheen of green copper oxidizing his plain suit, has a flower in his hand, as though he is offering it to his wife.

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I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.

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The appearance of some recent sunshine has produced plenty of tufts of green stuff on a pitch that had descended into a grey plain.

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