The parade marches to a church at Drumcree, a tiny countryside parish, for a service in memory of Northern Ireland soldiers who died at the Battle of the Somme during World War I. Since the first standoff between security forces and protesters in 1995, Drumcree has become a rallying cry for unionists and loyalists, the militant Protestants who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain.
Over the years BelTek has grown from its humble beginnings in a tiny, countryside town and has become an annual pilgrimage for New England's underground electronic music fans.
Sharp grew up in a tiny, ancient countryside village called Potterspury, in the U.K., a town not far from "two pubs called the Cock and the Bull, of a cock-and-bull story," he told me.
But here, in a handful of villages across a tiny stretch of countryside west of Sheffield, the festive carolling, fuelled by pints of ale, is to the sound of the human voice alone.
Out the window of the bus en route, we could see the Thai countryside: the tiny temples, the huts, the fields of rubber trees.
I've got an allotment in Peckham, which is amazing because it's a tiny piece of the countryside surrounded by urban landscape.
The government is far away here: dirt roads cut through the countryside to tiny clusters of houses with numbers for names: Núcleo 5, Núcleo 6. Fernando Masi, director of research institute CADEP, agrees.
Ulitskaya spends part of the year in a tiny apartment in the Italian countryside, near Genoa.
I also grew up in the countryside in a tiny place called Rutland.
Life in dusty provincial towns and on the tiny subsistence farms in the countryside is bleak, and teen-agers often grow restless and desperate there.
"You have hundreds of tiny armed groups plying the countryside, making havoc," said Jay Drosin, the director for the International Medical Corps's program in Congo.
