The village stands seven kilometres (four miles) from the nearest tarmac road.

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Herself, she looks in consternation from the dilapidated tarmac road to Zaak, as she releases her stiff grip around the handle of the knife.

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So the council is gradually working to remove the stones from the busier stretches of road - laying tarmac to ease and speed the traffic.

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An hour north of Hestheimar farm, the tarmac gives way to an unsurfaced road that winds up into the mountains.

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This entailed a complete lap of the 400 metre track and half of the tarmac perimeter before venturing into Castletown Road to Braddan.

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It will take months to rebuild properly the tarmac route between Maputo and Xai-Xai, but a bumpy dirt road reopened at the end of April.

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At the last hole his drive finished on Granny Clark's Wynd, the road crossing the fairway, but he hit his second off the tarmac to six feet and made it for yet another birdie.

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Road workers removed the crossing late on Thursday and replaced it with grey tarmac.

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Road racing is a term used to describe types of motorsport which take place on purpose-built tarmac tracks.

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