It was so picturesque it nearly seemed fake.
Relative remoteness (it's 30 miles north of Antigua, the larger of two islands which make up this country), a tiny population, and rules forbidding foreign ownership of land mean Barbuda is a rare thing indeed: gobsmackingly picturesque yet utterly unspoilt.
Indeed, the battle has put this picturesque city, about an hour southeast of the Grand Canyon, on the frontier of what many say is the new war for the West's public lands.
Indeed, the tearing down of the institute's picturesque three-house unit had a greater resonance than the felling of a single mansion, as if a whole 19th-century streetscape had been destroyed.
Indeed, while Madrid and Athens scare away tourists with demonstrations, the picturesque cities of Cannes and Prague are hosting events that remind us of Europe's unique magnetism.
As in Weimar Berlin, or Moscow and St Petersburg in the 1990s, or indeed like Paris itself in the 1950s, the collapse of power drew a picturesque crowd seeking social, artistic and financial opportunities.From the Duke of Wellington down, the victors and their hangers-on came to spend their money on high and low adventures.
Indeed, it is Mr. Clinton's loss, for Joypura, like most Bangladeshi villages, is stunningly picturesque.
Indeed, history with a view was the weekend theme for a recent trip to the picturesque eastern panhandle of West Virginia.
"The Geometry of Love" has almost no living people in it, the author showing little of the historian's relish for picturesque past villains, such as Constantina's notoriously vicious husband, the emperor Gallus, or, indeed, Constantina herself.
And indeed, over the week we saw many reasons why entrepreneurs would wish to begin building businesses there — mainly thanks to the picturesque landscape that prevails nearly everywhere you go.
