| We next visited the island of Burano, where picture postcard houses line the canals in contrasting shades of pastel colours. |
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| But underneath the glossy picture postcard image is a harsh, rugged, wild landscape that is my main source of inspiration. |
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| It is reproduced from a late-1800s picture postcard showing Crookhill Green and the village pond. |
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| Everything about it from the trees glinting with decorative fairy lights to the quaint old church was picture postcard perfect. |
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| Ruining the picture postcard view is more domestic refuse scattered at intervals all the way down to the watercourse. |
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| This gorgeous picture postcard scenery provides a backdrop for over 200 km of downhill and cross-country skiing trails. |
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| Freeways ribbon across picture postcard views, and there are more dulcet Kiwi tones on National Radio than I can translate fast enough. |
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| Or was this a wry post-modernist conceptual take on our received notions of the picture postcard? |
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| Running upstairs to the top deck to enjoy a picture postcard view of the city. |
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| Veteran souvenir merchants told us the picture postcard business is doing fine. |
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| Indeed the winds being felt at the moment by the fleet hardly correspond to the picture postcard image of the race. |
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| Via the medium of the picture postcard, photography contributed significantly to the dissemination of these motifs and the clichés of the Orient. |
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| The picture postcard should be as far as possible on sale before the issue of the postage stamp. |
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| As any deltiologist worth his stamps will tell you, the modern photographic picture postcard entered the world a few months after it was vacated by Queen Victoria. |
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| In what she'd always believed to be the cruelest of ironies, the town Julie had grown up in was a picture postcard perfect image of small-town America. |
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| Nestling around the ruins of the abbey where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night on Scottish soil, the village of Dundrennan is a picture postcard of tranquillity. |
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| On Brittany's fabulous Abers race zone, a real picture postcard of the finest land and seascapes in Brittany with its white sand beaches, its pine trees and its rocks that are exposed at low tide, the sun rules supreme. |
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| In the Seychelles we enter the world of picture postcard images: the flora and fauna are jealously protected by the authorities, the result being that the scenery is sublime and the sea bed of unequalled richness? |
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| Erbalunga with its marina and its Genoese tower a real picture postcard. |
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| Expo.02 did not attempt to fit this region into a Swiss picture postcard, but has offered other points of view on the landscape, in particular involving ground-breaking new architecture. |
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| The visitor should get his camera or video recorder ready and be prepared to shoot film like it it's going out of style because this village he is coming to, presents one picture postcard scene after another. |
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| This concordance between the illustration of the postage stamp and the one of the picture postcard must be as close as possible and visually verifiable. |
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| Mijas is a delightful maze of narrow cobbled streets and archways with picture postcard houses, red tile roofs and balconies ablaze with brightly. |
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