This part of the country does not get blanketed each winter in the way Snowdonia and the highland parts of Wales do, but when there is snow lying all around, the white walls of this hotel look particularly impressive, and that tea by a log fire in the wood-pannelled lounge becomes all the more necessary.
More than a century old, it's not sophisticated at all, with wooden tables and wine barrels all around the walls.
All around the walls of the ODC are painted "inspirational" slogans: "Achieve", "Sustain", "Courage", "Heritage", "Diversity".
All around the walls, muzzles of cannons protrude from crenels that are lined with shark-fin glass.
All around the walls of the courtroom hung the panama hats of famous detectives and politicians and the owners of the hats looked unnervingly pleased with themselves.
All around, the walls and floors of the gallery are covered with rows of enameled, postcard-size metal plates, most of which bear photographs of old scenes of Soviet industry.
"The teachers stuck note cards from every single event -- from when Jamestown was founded to Arthur Ashe winning tennis tournaments -- they put them all around the walls," said Meredith Keller, 12, a classmate.
But whenever the crucial moment comes, our boldness and our daring disappear; our spirit is shattered, comes unstrung; and we scramble all around the walls, seeking in our flight to save ourselves.
As he made his way to the dining room, he passed a large room with chairs all around the walls and figures sitting in them, none of them speaking or reading, some of them asleep or staring at a television that was blaring in the corner.
In many application contexts, a DMN solution, with microphones all around the walls of a room, cannot be adopted and instead a compact array, typically a linear one, has to be employed.
