Advantages: Unique, charming, location of cottages Disadvantages: Some places are very remote- few amenities.
As the fog swirled in patches around our labouring rental car, we nervously navigated winding roads leading into the Sierra Nevada. To our left, a steep rock cliff-face with netting to hold back falling debris. To our right, a sheer drop-off to the Andalusian countryside below. In the distance and far above us we could see the lights of other cars as they made their own way around hairpin turns. Passing through several small villages which seemed to somehow cling onto the land above the enormous gorge, I clutched the rental car road map in my sweaty little hand. It was at that moment that both The Boyfriend and I, exhausted after a seemingly endless trip from Glasgow exchanged horrified glances. Where the hell were we? Had we made a disastrous mistake in booking ourselves a little get-away cottage in rustic Spain? Read on?.
SOMETHING ...
tartantribe 22.10.2001
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Advantages: Thought-provoking... unrushed.... delightful. Disadvantages: Some may think it plays out too slowly...
to her, she has no other alternative but to take her daughter to the ranch owned by her father-in-law, Einar (Robert Redford). Jean and Einar have been estranged since the accidental death of her husband Griffin who was Einar's son. Einar has always blamed his son's death on Jean. Because of this, when Jean discovered that she was pregnant soon after her husband's death, she decided to leave the ranch and Einar's hatred behind. Therefore, until Jean's arrival with her daughter at the ranch, Einar was not aware that he was a grandfather.
Einar is a crusty, garrulous old cowboy, who lives a rustic existence working his land, minding his own business, and getting into the occasional chivalrous fight on his trips into town. His life is one long routine, and he never deviates from this routine. He pays daily visits to his son's grave ...
Advantages: Impressive, Neolithic site Disadvantages: That concrete filling, which to be fair is not noticeable
The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic henge and stone circle thought to have been erected between 2500BC and 200BC on the mainland island of Orkney and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Apparently henges (that is the circular flat area and surrounding bank/ditch) do not usually have stone circles in them and therefore this site along with Stonehenge are anomalies. Unfortunately because of the prominence of Stonehenge and the fact that a flat circular bit of land from Neolithic times doesn't really look like much, the unusualness of the site is rather overlooked as people flock to see yet another stone circle.
Of the probable original 60 stones, 27 remain in a huge circle in an otherwise unremarkable field. The circle is 104 metres in diametre which is a massive distance when you are standing in the centre of it. Whilst I have ...
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