The quaint hills of Zagorje, with their picture-postcard houses and the occasional fairy-tale castle mounted on a hillock; a healthy, well-dressed peasant leading a herd of fat cows across the horizon; chickens pecking for worms in the middle of a dirt road: I voraciously noted it all down — it was as though someone had prettied up the land for my arrival.
Rugged hills, quaint city There are four trains daily both ways between Oslo and Bergen, including an overnight run.
I had driven 15 minutes from the sprawl of Port of Spain before green erupted everywhere: rolling hills, quaint plant shops, iguanas scurrying across the road.
THE last 12 miles of the drive from New York to Frenchtown is a quintessential country scene, with rolling hills, quaint farmhouses, hayfields and the occasional yellow tractor-crossing sign.
The cyclists are only barely the stars of the broadcast: La Belle France matches them, with her green valleys, meandering streams, stark hills, quaint villages and savvy fans who somehow avoid tangling with the riders.
When thinking of the British countryside, many picture smooth, rolling green hills and quaint little cottages.
Shortly after dusk, on the evening before the opening of deer season in Pennsylvania -- the season usually opens the Monday after Thanksgiving -- three or four of us stuffed into a vehicle driven by Chris von Strasser can be found doodling around the hills of this quaint old railroad town on the upper Delaware River looking for the house of Stan Petlan.
The Rhode Island Historical Society (401-273-7507, extension 62; www.rihs.org) gives 90-minute walking tours ($12) of Benefit Street, a quaint strip that sits on College Hill, austerely overlooking the city's latest condos.
On the peninsula, there is an understated designer place called the Champey Inn and, on the hill, a clutch of quaint little thatched bungalows called the Veranda Natural Resort, all connected by a web of gnarled wooden walkways.
Best for: rustic charm With an impressive view of Puig Major (the highest mountain on the Balearics), and flanked either side by rocky hills and pine trees, this quaint little spot will feel like a discovery.
