Or maybe I was just smitten with the rose-redolent air and lantern-lit nights.

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Looking a little like a Marrakesh riad transplanted to Austria, Arte Vida has a lantern-lit communal salon and a Moorish garden replete with tent and shisha pipes.

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Then there was the time a year ago when, in a dark tunnel, the driver of an oncoming car became so unnerved at the sight of Nemitz's lantern-lit coach that he backed up into the wall.

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Wine Tour Urbano currently takes place in the historic Monserrat district, offering tour participants the opportunity to taste velvety pinot noirs by a Patagonian winery in the lantern-lit cloisters of a 1700s Jesuit church or rich malbecs by a Mendoza bodega at a frescoed, 19th-century pharmacy.

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Post pampering, compare notes with other hardcore skiers at the Argenta Pub over a pint of beer or glass of wine before slipping on snowshoes for a short trek through a lantern-lit forest to The Yurt, where you can treat yourself to a five-course meal, prepared right before your eyes by a private chef.

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The Princess Royal carried it off the specially-painted plane in a lantern and footballer David Beckham then lit a cauldron.

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Visitors can join the lantern parade as it snakes its way through the site, lit by thousands of fairy lights, accompanied by singers and musicians from Eden.

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