Well, it looks downhill on the map, and it sounds downhill: "From the Pyrenees to the Sea".
As we look downhill at the first towers, the clouds tear apart, the sun slips through, and huge wedges of treetops suddenly begin to glow.
The complex, stuccoed in a restful and weatherworn pink, is surrounded by greenery, and if in one direction it looks downhill onto a particularly unsightly condominium, the other views give onto almost a hundred acres of the estate's olive, pistachio, almond and orange groves.
From the rear terrace at Los Ombues you look downhill onto a backwater marsh 250 miles long by 80 miles wide that is literally teeming with two varieties of tree ducks, shovelers, four kinds of teal, widgeons, pintails, Brazilian ducks and the predominant rosy-billed pochards.
For fall, 26 Red created a group of retro-looking, "Downhill Racer" ski sweaters, with racing stripes across the middle.
But moviegoers no longer want to be fobbed off with a piece of torn-out cardboard and plastic, which begs to be bent and scratched; they want to look like downhill skiers, their wraparound mirrored lenses flashing on the slopes.
When we stopped for breath and looked back downhill, we could see the ash and lava flows from past eruptions eroded into hills and valleys, with scattered patches of low shrubs in sheltered areas far below.
She made a joke about her looks going downhill after marriage and he said that he would "love" her but he wouldn't "love on" her if that were to happen.
