Within the half hour, I had caught three trout, and we set up on a nearby beach amid a rugged beauty straight from a Jack London novel: red sand, log cabin and fish baking over a crackling fire.

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The four hour drive south from Marrakech winds through the Atlas mountains and tiny, dusty Berber villages (although many, surprisingly, not too tiny for an ATM) showered with blowing red sand under a blinding sun.

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Fisher recommends both parties immediately draw red lines in the sand and consistently reinforce relationship boundaries.

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'This is when the colours come out: the black of granite, gold of sand, and the red sunsets we have here.

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The kibbutz, set against the backdrop of the red Edom Mountains and the golden sand dunes of the Jordanian border, is a great place to watch birds migrating to and from Africa by day and gaze at the stars by night.

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The city hugs the coast, and the waterfront includes the famous Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, upon which bright red and yellow umbrellas dot every visible stretch of sand.

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The further inland you go, the redder the sand gets: white to orange to insane red.

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The red dirt gave way to smooth, egg-shell-white sand.

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" Red residue clinging to the scoop walls is from a sample collected earlier from a drift of windblown dust and sand called "Rocknest.

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