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The first thing I recognised when I stepped out of my hostel the next morning was my father’s description of the light. A fierce, white sunshine that cut every detail of the city into razor sharp relief. Beyond, the mountains looked beaten flat like giant billboards in its glare. I wondered if they would suddenly collapse in a strong wind, leaving nothing more than a tangle of scaffolding and dust.
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Bolivia, landlocked, high blown and so often overlooked and forgotten. And yet it is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary countries in the world.
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No destination need be too far, no journey left incomplete.
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Rather than an anachronistic throw back to a bygone era maybe Landseer’s magnificent stag could come to represent a vision for a future landscape.
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It is all the stuff of growing up that so many of us remember, or wish for our own kids and grandchildren. A muddy childhood spent scrabbling around in leaf litter and building dens that will never, despite all expectations, last the winter. Life lived at full tilt, in the moment, outdoors.
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