Pause for lunch, then drift through fishing villages, beaches and glens that define Donegal’s rugged character.
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David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
13 May 2026
The eldest of Scotland’s two national parks, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, is centered around Great Britain’s largest freshwater lake, Loch Lomond, alongside the mountains, forests, and glens of the Trossachs.
The face of the moon never looks the same from one night to the next, as the shifting angle between the moon and sun causes sunlight to sweep across its surface, altering the shadows cast by craters, mountain ranges and ravines.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
23 May 2026
Madeira’s cliffs and ravines are difficult enough that many walking holidays there are guided and focused on one part of the island, including the eight-mile forest hike through Ribeiro Frio.
And its landscape is otherworldly—with a rift valley, lava fields torn apart by tectonic forces, and gorges and fissures aplenty.
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Carinne Geil Botta,
Travel + Leisure,
16 May 2026
Dimitsana and Arcadian mountain trails The heartland of the Peloponnese is Arcadia, a mountainous province of gorges and hills, many precariously topped by medieval towns.
Pilots can cut down the left or right canyons, go up over the rock bluffs or down into a Krayt dragon tunnel.
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Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
26 May 2026
That is particularly relevant in high-rise cities, where skyscrapers create heavily shaded urban canyons and cloud cover frequently reduces direct solar exposure.
Scott Gordon, chief of water enforcement for EPA’s regional office at the time, toured the site in 2000 and said he was shocked by how the industrial water found its path into the river, sometimes through gullies cut by the flow.
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DYLAN JACKSON,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
Authorities say the mountain sees about a dozen rescues and one fatality per year, with slip-and-falls in steep gullies being a common danger.
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Gregory Thomas,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Mar. 2026
The road to the potato patches — where the community grows most of its vegetables — crosses several large gulches that frequently spill tons of rock and soil onto the track, requiring regular maintenance.
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NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
In the 1910s, Bisbee packed some 35 nationalities onto ledges and into its gulches and streets, with Mexican and Balkan miners among the largest groups, most of them working at Phelps Dodge’s Copper Queen Mine.
Set the scene Deliberately designed like a modern-day Acropolis, Amanzoe is poised on a hilltop with wide-screen views of the rolling valleys and smooth seas of the Peloponnese.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
The hotel is near surreal valleys, honeycombed with cave dwellings and frescoed Byzantine cave churches.
Her journey takes her to the soirées of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District, all in search of independence, self-love and reinvention.
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Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2026
But Mary’s journey takes her far beyond that familiar estate — to the soirées of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District, all in search of independence, self-love and reinvention.
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