Places for lunch are laid at a long trestle table in the cool shade of a large holm oak.

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This is country where the local scrub of wild olive, thyme and holm oak give it a Spaghetti-Western feel.

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The herd ambles round the edge of the slope at a deliberate pace and fades into the myrtle, cistus, holm oak and pine.

BBC: Sardinia, land and sea