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  • Our young heroes arrived in the pittoresque hobbit town of Zandpoort aan Zee, where Dr. Huckstable lives.

    Zero Punctuation nathreee 2008

  • Images from Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil Volume 1 — Jean Baptiste Debret 1768-1848.

    Brazilian Lithographs tellurian 2010

  • Images from Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil Volume 1 — Jean Baptiste Debret 1768-1848.

    Archive 2010-04-01 tellurian 2010

  • Our young heroes were eager to leave the pittoresque town of Zandpoort aan Zee, for some reason.

    D&D on Tuesday nathreee 2008

  • The next day they arrived in the pittoresque village of Zandpoort at Sea.

    D&D last night nathreee 2008

  • Last fall, in Spain, when I got bored with comfortable expat living on a primera linea de playa in a 2000-3000 years old pittoresque small Andalusian town of Almunecar, I went to the only European desert, in the province of Almeria, as I wanted to help out a low-tech nonprofit "Sunseed Technology".

    Page 2 2005

  • I love primitivism: I love remote locations, I love jungles and islands, pittoresque, romantic, but with modern conveniences ... and a reasonable distance to urbane pleasures: great architecture, musea, theatres, Viennese style reading-rooms cafe's etc.etc. (although I can and gladly do without most shops other than bookstores - I am not a shopper), so you can easily switch from one lifestyle to the other.

    Page 2 2005

  • Last fall, in Spain, when I got bored with comfortable expat living on a primera linea de playa in a 2000-3000 years old pittoresque small Andalusian town of Almunecar, I went to the only European desert, in the province of Almeria, as I wanted to help out a low-tech nonprofit "Sunseed Technology".

    Page 2 2005

  • I love primitivism: I love remote locations, I love jungles and islands, pittoresque, romantic, but with modern conveniences ... and a reasonable distance to urbane pleasures: great architecture, musea, theatres, Viennese style reading-rooms cafe's etc.etc. (although I can and gladly do without most shops other than bookstores - I am not a shopper), so you can easily switch from one lifestyle to the other.

    Page 2 2005

  • Autumn lasts from 15th of September until 23rd of December, when a light snow is scheduled, with a quick and pittoresque winter.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Torill 2006

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