Sentences with phrase «own rural idyll»

Phoenix High School is very far from a rural idyll.

As a child, he saw a picture in an encyclopaedia titled «An Everyday Village Scene», with thatched cottages, a duck pond, a cricket match on the village green: John Major's rural idyll.

I don't know if you meet many brown muslims in your rural idyll but I think you may find many in this country who are opposed to the Pakistan Govt policy.

Whatever their causes, says Schulting, «it brings home the idea that these were not just peaceful farmers living in a rural idyll.»

Litchfield county is peppered with rolling hills and cornfields, and is precisely the kind of rural idyll you need to remedy the big city blues.

Once there, he begins to suspect that the rural idyll may not be all it seems.

While Can Paola feels like its own rural idyll, it's only a short drive from oceanfront dining in the town of Sant Josep de sa Talaia and several beaches, including lively Es Torrent and scenic Cala Jondal.

Try as I might, though, I couldn't quite find this rural idyll that my Turkish guidebook was so excited about.

The Greek islands epitomise rural idyll, while Turkey is a fascinating mix of history, tradition and culture.

A growing number of beachfront restaurants, bars and boutiques fuels a lively social scene within this rural idyll and surfers» haven.

This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, pull on your wellies and experience the working life of a farm or perhaps you'd rather kick - back, relax and let Cornwall's rural idyll reinvigorate you.

You'll find lots of great Suffolk holiday cottages scattered through this amazing region, so whether you're looking for something conveniently located in the county town of Ipswich, or a rural idyll that's perfect for a romantic getaway, you have plenty of options.

Shaw's 20th - century backwoods are a tatty double of the painted rural idylls where sylphs of yore romped.

This is a neat, domesticated landscape as far from Caspar David Friedrich as one could imagine: a rural idyll on an industrial scale — and yet the very contrast forces the comparison with what we know of the wilder, more romantic aspects of German culture.

The pictures show a devastated and ragged environment, the former rural idyll is destroyed by mining.

The couple often welcome members of the art world to their rural idyll, with Wirth grilling meat from his farm and offering artisanal produce.

We do not hold romantic illusions about lost rural idylls of the past.

They fell in love with the derelict barn because it had views across fields and was the epitome of the rural idyll.

And it seems that planning the perfect rural idyll has pushed back the golden couple's wedding plans, as they are still to fix a date for their nuptials.

Twenty minutes outside Bath, surrounded by fields, hens, quail and deer, the Pig is the definitive rural idyll.

Not exact matches

The trope of the idyll is no longer limited to rural simplicity or innocence.