The narrow stone lanes all lead down to the sea from the pretty St Mark's Square with its 15-century cathedral and museum.
Krk is verdant and well-inhabited: its main town, also Krk, is busier than Cres but with similar cool stone lanes.
The cliff face of houses is broken by wynds (narrow, winding stone lanes leading down either side of the ridge) and closes or vennels (entryways into courtyards, around and behind which are yet more buildings).
Take time to wander aimlessly though the old quarter, where the mysterious labyrinth of narrow stone lanes opens up onto fetching, palm tree-lined squares.
On the harbour's western side, the picturesque old town rises on a slope with late 18th century white wooden houses lining its narrow cobble-stoned lanes.
In a restored complex of old stone shikumen (lane houses), with cobbled pedestrianised streets, it's Shanghai's answer to Covent Garden.
It's a beautiful patchwork of stone-paved lanes, kitchen gardens, pot plants, bougainvillea-drenched walls, and little cafes and shops.
Days on end can easily be spent picking one's way up and down Mardin's stone-paved lanes, exploring markets, dipping into mosques and medreseler and refueling with glasses of tea.
Then they slid a stone down the lane and watched as it curled, first one way and then the other.
SNFs in these landscapes include field and pasture margins, forest fringes, hedges, hollow ways (sunken lanes), stone walls, sand and gravel pits, and quarries.
