One half longed for a countryside from which they had been cut off for 30 years and the others for a more urban, less drab environment.
A SHELF of recent French novels has deserted Parisian settings for a countryside of oppressive farmhouses and stifling small towns.
Philip Weiss, 39 Hoy, Orkney Islands, off the north-east coast of Scotland Nearest shop: Seventeen mile drive to the corner shop on the island – or a 45-minute boat trip to Orkney then plane or boat to Aberdeen on the Scottish mainland I'd been a countryside ranger for about 19 years, and when the job came up here last August, it seemed perfect.
Radical French cities vied with a conservative countryside for control of a fragile new republic.
Which political party has the vision for how £3bn of common agricultural policy payments should be spent to deliver a better countryside for people and wildlife?
If you're thinking about organising a walk in the countryside for a group of friends or colleagues, a frequently offered word of advice is … don't.
In initiatives reminiscent of the Mao era, the government has ordered each cadre to live with a family in the countryside for a month, transmitted Maoist slogans to residents via text message, and told Chongqing Satellite Television to fill prime-time hours with educational red programming and cut all commercial advertising.
Raised as a Christian and educated in England, Obi abandons the countryside for a job as a civil servant in Lagos, which was the capital at the time.
In "Never Let Me Go"an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed 2005 novel that opens tomorrow in theatersteenage clones scour a bleak English countryside for the humans who might have spawned them, called 'possibles.' Never finding them, the "poor creatures," as they're later called, will donate their vital organs to a society that forsakes them.
No one is going to mistake the big 90-foot pylon, part of a power line that crosses his dairy farm here in the hilly Danish countryside, for a Michelangelo or even a Calder.
