The valley itself, about a 20-minute drive inland from the coast, is idyllic in a fruit-crate-picture sort of way, with gentle spruce- and fir-topped slopes, and vineyards contoured over swelling knolls.
In the last couple of years, the international real estate market has seen a significant boost from affluent buyers, whether they are after an idyllic getaway, a lucrative investment or both.
Upstate New York, as seen from 7, 000 feet, is green and fecund, rural and idyllic--a picture postcard.
For a city dweller it sounds almost idyllic, though Rawles -- a gently spoken and affable man -- insists it's a lot of hard work.
You probably wonder what cyclists think about while biking on idyllic country roads on a perfect spring day.
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Or simply by walking near his home in the idyllic Black Forest, a short drive from the French border and Strasbourg.
For those mariners constantly on the move, trying to find a partner willing to wait on land or give up everything to jump on board is one of the pitfalls of a seemingly idyllic lifestyle.
The canyon floor supports a handful of idyllic rustic retreats -- known collectively as Sangalle -- reachable only by foot or mule.
They follow three other kids at home, at school, and at leisure, as they wander around woods or railroad yards, and the movie becomes a wistful memorial to a barely surviving idyllic American childhood.
Join the ranks of Madonna and Ashley Judd, and marry a man in a kilt at the idyllic Skibo Castle.
Now, the military wants to find out if this idyllic scenario can be transformed into a reality, and one that could curb the growing number of suicides among soldiers and veterans.
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Free hats and flags were given out by the first teams to arrive and soon a sea of green hats added to the colour of the Waterfront, which provided an idyllic backdrop for the start of the race between 100 riders over a 1, 349.9km course.
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Run by the same Croatian-Italian clan since it opened as a single villa in 1909, the hillside property overlooks an idyllic cove and has expanded into seventeen rooms tucked into charming bungalows and cottages, scattered throughout a lush, century-old botanical garden roamed by imported peacocks.
But she reckons that a few more summers in these idyllic, sun-kissed islands will allow her to track it down.
It is possible that the Pauls could be just the tiniest a bit out of touch with the difficulties faced by millions of Americans to whom a paper route would represent an idyllic childhood, even if they had to (shudder) put the papers inside the screen door?
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Portrayed as idyllic in tourist brochures, they in fact harbor a vociferous independence movement.
When I enter a bookstore, where I have spent idyllic hours, the guilt pangs are strongest.
This curtails their idyllic life, happily working as free men on a plantation owned by Mr Gibson's character.
After a chopper drops off guests in an idyllic wildflower-covered valley, mountaineers strap on helmets and harnesses, clip their via ferrata lanyards to the metal cable bolted to the base of Mount Nimbus, and begin to climb.
As idyllic as this area looked, water shortages had become a huge problem, particularly affecting the main source of income here, agriculture.
Retired truck driver Miguel Mosquera said he remembered the idyllic scene there decades ago, when the river was a perfect place to spend a sunny day.
It all seems a long way away from the picture of idyllic family life of the 1950s when divorce was rare, and children were seen but not heard.
He had felt like a legitimate local for the three months that this idyllic situation stuttered along.
The heart of the book, and the subject of greatest interest, is a portrait of their marriage and their four seemingly idyllic years on Corfu.
It all felt so stagnant, never changing, always the same idyllic sceneries over and over again playing out like the background to a Hanna Barbera cartoon.
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Pack your clubs and get ready for a truly breathtaking escape: a two-night stay at Pronghorn Club and Resort in idyllic Bend, Oregon.
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They purchased a house and settled down to what they thought was going to be an idyllic life, but just weeks later their nightmare began.
On August 17th Block Island, an idyllic spot on Long Island Sound north-east of New York city, will be graced by a holiday visit from one William Jefferson Clinton, plus 200 of his closest friends (Secret Service men and reporters, mostly).
The urgent, frenzied images are matched by his visionary editing most of the film features screens within screens, with as many as five video channels, often reprocessed with the hallucinatory wash of a video synthesizer framed in postcard-like backgrounds suggesting the mad contrast of the idyllic rural school and the chaos within and beyond.
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