Best of all is the horseshoe bay of Rondinara and tree-fringed Palombaggia, which you will see gracing postcards all over Corsica.

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She had looked up the schedules of ferries, and was certain that at this time of year night would have fallen by the time the last ferry left Horseshoe Bay.

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Soon these will stretch the whole way along the Marginal, the seafront road that is being turned into a grand six-lane highway sweeping around the horseshoe-shaped bay of Luanda, Angola's buzzing capital.

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