My hosts at Majdac farm show me a list of a dozen different plants - including balm mint, dandelion, dog rose, thyme, nettles and two types of violet - that make the delicious tisane that is offered instead of tea.

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Edge - who led the competition following the dressage - retired after horse Two Thyme twice refused, ending her challenge for the Badminton title.

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This is country where the local scrub of wild olive, thyme and holm oak give it a Spaghetti-Western feel.

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Its popularity in the U.S. pretty much starts and stops there, but in France, as well as Britain and Northern Europe, the dried blue-black berries have a rightful place alongside thyme, rosemary and bay.

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The southern mountains are dotted with tiny traditional villages, fantastic spots to buy hearty local olive oil and thyme honey, though Azogires has a freshwater lagoon where the itinerant nereids - those beguiling sea-nymphs of ancient Greek myth - can allegedly steal a man's soul on one sacred night each year.

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Dot with the roughly chopped sun-dried tomatoes and, if you like, an extra scattering of thyme leaves.

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It smelled ridiculously good -- sage, I guessed, and butter and garlic and onion, and maybe some thyme, and the faint sweetness of the fruit.

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