They had learned in the German media in 2014 that Reichental was travelling across Europe filming about his life's journey from Belsen to the leafy suburbs of south Dublin.
Beneath a leafy canopy The poet, on my seventieth, Gazed up through cathedral Branches at constellations.
Up on the rarefied and leafy heights of Kolonaki, home to some of central Athens' most expensive shops and their exceedingly well-heeled clientele, it was hard to find anyone really upset by Syriza's victory – or worried by Tsipras's warning that the vote was "a defeat for the oligarchs and elites".
The restaurant itself is serene, despite the full view into the working kitchen, and it is tucked down a leafy side road away from tourist hubbub.
Blanched leafy greens are transformed by a libation of sizzling oil over slivers of ginger and spring onion, and a dash of good soy sauce.
The luxuries that underpinned our middle-class upbringings – terraced houses in leafy streets, holidays abroad, money left in the account at the end of the month – had thus far eluded us, and it was beginning to look like they always would.
It's 1989 and I'm hangin' tough with my £11.99 skateboard from Argos and a bright yellow Sony Walkman in Stanmore, a leafy suburb of north London where the most ghetto it gets is an overdue library book.
Then there are the salt flats, the lagoons, Death Valley, the flamingo reserves … San Pedro's dusty streets may be thronged with tourists, but it is still an appealing, easygoing huaso (cowboy) town: one-storey adobe buildings, a leafy main square with an archetypal Andean church; an excellent archaeological museum.
Hugo de Grootplein 7, 9-11, +31 20 486 8408, razmataz.nl, mains around €20. Open Mon-Thurs 8.30am-1am 8.30am-1amm-3am, Sat 9am-3am, Sun 9am-1am District V comes into its own on a warm summer's evening, when its terrace Frils the entire south-east corner of a leafy square in the south of De Pijp.
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And I could admit that nobody, not even the directors of energy companies who live in the leafy home counties, wants increased industrial activity in their back yard.
