If your bank balance is not up for taking to the air, pull on your hiking shoes and head into the valleys, where walking rewards you with some seriously fantastic and free views across the lunar-like terrain.

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It is hard not to look back on the mood in 2008 without shaking your head slightly.

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It may not impress the voters either who might argue that your head is either on the block - or frankly, nowhere near it.

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