Not exact matches
Or consider JB Priestley's account of travelling out of London in 1933 along the Great Western road and confronting the endless, low - density exurbia of ribbon sprawl: «We might suddenly have rolled into California... This is the England of arterial and by - pass roads, of filling stations and factories that look
like exhibition buildings, of
giant cinemas and dance - halls and cafes, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworths, motor - coaches, wireless, hiking, factory girls looking
like actresses, grey - hound racing and dirt tracks,
swimming pools, and everything given away for cigarette coupons.»
The waters are shallow, it's
like a
giant natural
pool with schools of tiny fish
swimming at your feet.
The black and white square tiles surrounding the central
swimming pool are similar to those of a
giant chess set, and guests may find themselves plodding along
like a pawn pondering the serenity of its surroundings or dashing large distances
like a queen striding out of her delightful room adorned in her evening attire, hastily anticipating a delicious banquet at Taman Rosani Hotel & Villa's fabulous Tunjung Biru restaurant.
This reef protects the bungalows and islands from tides and large waves, creating that
giant swimming pool -
like lagoon.
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We hiked through the Bayano Caves, which is essentially an underground cave and river,
swam in snake and cayman - infested waters, came across four Fer - de-lances (really deadly snakes) and a scorpion, stood in the cave / river while thousands of bats whooshed over us
like a
giant bat - wave, and in the end reached a beautiful natural
pool that twinkled and that we could have stayed in forever.