The bucolic, shambolic setting only made the 10th-century Haghpat, in the northeastern corner of Armenia, feel all the more remarkable.
But then the bucolic scene is shattered by the arrival of a huge helicopter, and our host bids us goodbye.
But as they sip glasses of sweet cardamom tea, the bucolic bliss is shattered by a large blast in the valley below.
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Laid out in 1922 on the grounds of an old royal hunting forest outside Milan, Monza is the bucolic antidote to Indianapolis or Monaco.
Almost at once the area was thronged with wealthy British tourists, who saw in these peaceful, grand valleys the bucolic idyll they had lost in smoky, crowded Britain.
Coconut Island, in the bucolic, slow-paced province of Kerala, is a tropical paradise where your only neighbors are the herons, owls and crabs that populate this remote coconut plantation.
On February 9th in 1855, residents of Devon, England awakened to a find a light snow cover blanketing the landscape, rendering the bucolic countryside a whiter shade of pale.
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Also on the tour, check out the bucolic vineyards and warming tasting room at Domaine de Chaberton Winery, or compare locally-made fruit wines at Krause Berry Farms and Estate Winery with the cranberry-focused tipples at Fort Wine Company.
It takes in Watermill Inn in the bucolic village of Ings, where a pint pulled from one of the 16 hand pumps can be enjoyed fireside or outside on the sunny terrace, and the Hawkshead Brewery, with its extensive selection of beers such as Cumbrian Five Hop and Lakeland Gold.
Head north into Atlantic City proper and the experience is quite different from the almost bucolic feel of Margate and Marven Gardens.
The buzz and bucolic scenery drew furniture maker Stephen Culp, 38, to Chattanooga from Palo Alto in 2001.
Cambridge, on the other hand, has peaceful meadows - the "Backs" - leading down to the river with wonderful views of the old colleges, lending it a more bucolic air than "the other place", as its students sneeringly refer to Oxford.
Or is it a bucolic reverie the elements of which have come to them not through direct experience, but the media?
Grab an unlimited amount of cookies from the complimentary cookie jar and go for a stroll, surveying the inn's 200 bucolic acres.
Though not so private as his architectural counterpart, the Dutch-born "plantsman" (as he humbly calls himself) is also something of an ascetic, living and working far from the madding crowd in a bucolic retreat.
For investors who need to be reminded that we are indeed still in a bear market, there's Jim Stack of Investech Research, who made the trip to the Big Apple from his bucolic perch in Whitefish, Mont.
To learn more about this mushrooming world of senior entrepreneurs, I lured the dynamic Elizabeth Isele, co-founder of the non-profit SeniorEntrepreneurshipWorks to sit down with me at the Thornton River Grille in bucolic Sperryville, VA for a breakfast of French toast and coffee on Friday.
The pace of life here is bucolic and unhurried, and four days can easily turn into a week.
On Eternal Space, loved ones can choose from different headstones and bucolic landscape backgrounds -- the mountain lake is a popular option -- to create a customized online grave site.
So these days, the dirt is flying at Omega's bucolic campus near Rhinebeck, N.
Manufacturing, especially of steel and cars, accounts for over a quarter of the state's output, despite its bucolic reputation.
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The Forest of Dean markets itself on being this bucolic place where everyone comes to walk and cycle, spot wildlife, and photograph wildlife.
While an Atlantic bay or a mountain valley may make attractively bucolic settings for a fresh foodstuff, the notion of a terroir, as in wine-growing, is misleading.
Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.
This alternately bucolic and brooding landscape inspired painters not just to depict the actual topography but often to clothe it in Byronic atmosphere.
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Despite that propinquity to high finance, it is bucolic enough to have a Boy Scout Camp, where the youth of the 99%, including Troop 193 of Fairview NJ could experience nature.
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About 30 miles north of Mystic, the Blue Slope Country Museum in Franklin is essentially a celebration of all things bucolic.
As does a hint of 19th-Century bucolic fantasy: large olive trees spout from tables in one of the restaurants and stages are framed with foliage.
Blackburn were so far ahead of the Finnish outfit in terms of technique and tactical nous that the early exchanges were little more than a practice match in MyPa's bucolic little ground which resembled most Premier League clubs' training facilities.
When officials in this bucolic town say they don't have a sewerage system, you get the sense they don't really want one either.
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