Winter is the best time to join a nature walk into the Sonoran Desert as the days are bright and clear but not bakingly hot. |
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It's bakingly hot on the day I visit Puys, with a group of Canadian colleagues, and I'm wearing the wrong shoes as I scramble over the pebbles to the cliffs, trying not to sprain an ankle. |
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You see this bakingly hot, empty landscape. |
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When the right to hold the competition in 2022 was won by tiny, bakingly hot Qatar, against the strong advice of FIFA's own technical committee, suspicions that votes had been bought were immediately aroused. |
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