Down a rough lane, between a building site and lorries plundering old heaps of shale, are a couple of portable cabins for a trickle of visitors.
The Guardian was granted a royal audience at his temporary court headquarters – a battered old caravan parked on the drove, a rough lane where druids have gathered for years at notable events such as the solstices.
Austen is matchless in her openings, but none of them sound quite as eventful as this: A gentleman and lady travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and East Bourne, being induced by business to quit the high road, and attempt a very rough lane, were overturned in toiling up its long ascent half rock, half sand.
When the sky lightened, we stopped in a rough limestone lane, amid walled fields of golden hay, and listened for gunshots.
Awe swiftly becomes dread, however, when you're teetering above a yawning abyss on a rough single-lane scar of dirt track.
From Holguin, we take a chartered bus on the rough, two-lane road -- the only road -- that runs the length of Cuba.
My adventure here began with the drive up the mile-long, steep, rough, single lane farm road to the Aloha Guest House Bed and Breakfast, our host for our three night visit to the island.
Upstream, the rough and sunken lane towards Barrett's Mill is like a streambed.
A couple of the artists nominated for the Creative 30 are having their work exhibited in a great-looking group show called The Joyful Bewilderment opening tonight at Rough Trade in Brick Lane.
Off Plaza Santo Domingo, the once rough-and-tumble lane of bordellos called La Ronda has reclaimed its 19th-century splendor as a pedestrian-only circuit of galleries and cozy cafes.
