The intense sunlight refracted slices of silver on the water as we inched toward the island, and we had to squint to see a modest mountain draped in a thick tangle of green on the horizon.
Home for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is currently a converted living room with a dirty beige carpet in a compound close to Zintan, a modest mountain town 100 miles south-east of Libya's capital, Tripoli.
For instance, there are five par-3 and five par-5 holes, no water features beyond a modest mountain stream here or there, and remarkably few bunkers.
The movement's symbolic home is here in this modest mountain village, a speck in the middle of the island with a population of about 6,000 that is swelled in summer by hikers and discount tourists.
With picturesque villages, a wine region, modest mountains, lovely lakeside resorts, Macedonia is rich in history, gorgeous scenery, a favorable exchange rate, and welcoming people.
They are modest mountains, by the way, not awesome peaks; a Sunday hiker's hills, if you're a Sunday hiker who does not mind the rattlesnakes that are said to have given the mountains their Edenic names.
The mountain may sport a modest 1,604 feet of vertical, yet almost every cranny of its 1,600 acres is skiable, with terrain ranging from perfectly pitched groomers to hair-raising steeps.
Close by, there is a quaint little nursery slope, and beyond that the chair lift up the mountain, home to a modest 24 pistes, two greens, several blues, and some harder reds and blacks, including the notorious Crystal Dark – a vertiginous rock-scarred drop from the peak.
The mountain may sport a modest 1,604 feet of vertical, yet almost every cranny of its 1,600 acres is skiable, with terrain ranging from perfectly pitched groomers to hair-raising steeps, and all sorts of natural gullies and jumps beloved by snowboarders.
After 16 years and more than $150 million in US assistance, the project was commemorated with a modest, three-sided monument near the mountain.
A home-schooling Mormon mother of five, Ms. Smith lives in a modest ranch-style house here in the mountains outside Salt Lake City with her husband, Cleve, a plumbing contractor.
