Sentences with phrase «few ramshackle»

Imagine the early days of a now - major city in America's west, when only a few ramshackle buildings stood along a dusty street.

Only six square blocks, Quepos is comprised of local eateries, tourism - related businesses, a few ramshackle hotels, and the Marina Pez Vela, a sportfishing attraction bringing people from all over the globe here.

Not exact matches

Our convoy had settled for a few days in al - Ghayda, the ramshackle capital of Mahra governorate in east Yemen, and word of our presence was spreading fast.

He leaves his cubicle at work each day to return to a small room attached to a ramshackle garage just a few feet from the house where his brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and sister - in - law Karin (Emily Mortimer) reside.

But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.

On the third day, I took Harriet, our six - year - old daughter, to my father's temporary office — a ramshackle building on stilts a few miles north, along the shore of a swampy, sulphurous asphalt lake.

Co-op was particularly prone to lag and connection issues, which has been a shame because when you get a few friends together, there's some lovely ramshackle fun to be had.

Amid the heat, the dust, the squalor, the traffic, the ramshackle dwellings in the City of the Dead, and the row on row of «permanently» partially completed apartments (they pay tax once the building is finished, so they never finish them,), and of course, «bad dates» (beware the pharaoh's revenge), a few days in Cairo only reinforces my view that you have to leave Canada to appreciate it.