The surrounding woodland is slightly less serene at weekends, when plenty of hikers, cyclists, rock-climbers and horse riders arrive.
Syal lived in the East End for 25 years and has only moved to Highgate village in the last 18 months; she's still getting used, she says, to the slightly more serene pace of perfect spring days like this one.
En route to report on new eco-tourism ventures in the West African countries of Gabon and Gambia ("Hope Floats" appears on Page 110), Burkett made a pit stop in the slightly less serene city of Dakar.
But this band's collective job, above all the smaller individual ones, is flexibility, sometimes slightly perverse, always serene.
Coltrane — whose music is marked by remarkable technique, strength in all registers of the tenor and soprano saxophones, slightly sharp intonation, serene intensity, and a rapid, mobile exploration of chords, not just melody-made jazz that was alternately seductive, mainstream, and antagonistic.
Friðjón had the serene, slightly cynical detachment of any good political strategist, and, after Guðni swept off to his next event, talked about his chances just as a strategist might who was running a Presidential campaign for a promising Midwestern governor in New Hampshire.
It is a serene, slightly solitary experience that puts you directly in touch with not only nature, but also your thoughts.
In its early life, the Tokyo was celebrated for a serene if slightly distant elegance.
Here, it's easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
There was a slightly chaotic air to the usually imposing, serene setting of spacious quadrangles, statues and well-kempt gardens.
And what a serene mask the boy has, radically simplified and slightly oriental like many of de La Tour's characters.
