Sentences with phrase «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.

The Shire where the hobbits live is a place of plenty, a preindustrial rural idyll modelled on the area of the Midlands where Tolkien grew up.

Visually, this is a charming addition to Japanese interpretation of pastoral England, with the overall vision of manor houses and rural idylls feeling perfectly bucolic.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

You'd think we lived in some rural idyll, but actually we are urban gardeners living in Birmingham!

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.

«The idea that you can centralise these functions in the «rural idyll» of Whitehall would be laughable if it didn't have such devastating consequences for people's livelihoods and our rural economies.»

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.»

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

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

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

King Island's slogan — «clean, green, serene» — sums up the delights of this rural idyll anchored in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and Victoria.

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.

This tour combines this rural idyll with Vietnam's best urban and small town experiences.

Explore the peaks of Snowdonia, the shadows of Glen Coe, the rural idylls of the Lake District, and the windswept paths of the Wild Atlantic Way.

Encompassing responses to new technologies and their effect on the landscape one can see a reactionary nostalgia for the rural idyll, visionary prospect in the ports of commerce and playful reverie for the information super-highways.

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.

Yet Expressionism was marked by a profound ambivalence toward modernity, and subject matter frequently operated between the antimonies of metropolitan alienation and the rural idyll.

Moreover, she has a particular interest in the natural world and our relationship to it, which makes her work particularly fitting for the rural idyll which is Roche Court.

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

Do you value economic prosperity, longer life span and conveniences of modern life over and above the rural idyll you're tangentially promoting?

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

Because the original queen of interior design on TV is selling her rural idyll just outside York.