Soon he came to a narrow lane between two tall hedges of bougainvillea.
Husna cautiously walked up the straight, long drive, bordered with bougainvillea and jasmine.
This long-time business traveller favourite is known for its peaceful Spanish-colonial style courtyard, where executives dine among fountains, palms and bougainvillea as the district bustles outside.
The nucleus of Can Curreu is the 500-year-old whitewashed farmhouse - framed by heavy bows of blooming pink bougainvillea - that has been in the Mari family for generations.
Parents and grandparents trim cascades of bougainvillea and frangipani, brushing away the fallen blooms, as children in crisp uniforms head off to school carrying simple twig brushes and sharp sickles to tidy the playgrounds.
Perhaps most important is the natural setting, from the barely touched mangrove forest (building low-impact was a priority) to the riots of flamboyant bougainvillea that drape the uneven stone steps up to the hillside suites.
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Construction narrowly missed a cemetery in the town, where horses are corralled by rock walls and scatterings of purple and violet flowers from bougainvillea vines and jacaranda trees compete with the view of a creek that is littered with garbage.
"The little boy who called the flowers in his garden bougainvillea, " says Dr. Barbara Klein, an educational consultant in Los Angeles and author of Raising Gifted Kids: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Exceptional Child Thrive.
In the village, Tsakonas, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops, dines near the street and keeps an eye out for friends passing under the hanging bougainvillea on their way to the main square, which bustles in high season.
That lack of mass tourism only adds to the beauty of the place: an island where horse drawn carriages still take visitors past neoclassical houses edged with bougainvillea, harbors with fishing boats, deserted beaches and cobbled streets.
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Aryeh Zelnik hesitated a moment or two, turned his gaze to the open window, through which he could see one of the abandoned farm sheds, as well as a dusty cypress up which orange bougainvillea had climbed with fiery fingers.
Bougainvillea blooms year round, palm trees are everywhere dotting the skyline like enormous chrysanthemums and ficus trees reach the size of old growth oaks, reminding you that California is a very hospitable place to grow and bloom on many levels.
Sudanese workers are busy with Khartoum's face lift, especially on Nile Road, running along the Blue Nile River past the grand palace grounds and government ministries, the road's median lined with newly planted pink bougainvillea and palm trees, running up to a brand-new development built especially for the African heads of state due here for the two-day meeting beginning January 23rd.
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