But in a bucolic village with two medium-security prisons, where inmates (about 1,600) outnumber residents (about 1,078), they were not surprised either.

But the comparison was inevitable between this packed island and the bucolic village I'd left a few hours before.

Perhaps I should open my heart and start trusting people, leave the doors open the way they do in those remote, bucolic villages.

In between the mountains lay tiny bucolic villages.

Since 1863 they have migrated in late summer to this bucolic village to witness today's babies become next year's stars.

Yugoslavia's cycle of violence, loss and revenge gripped the bucolic villages of this nation's agricultural heartland today.

Puffing Billy steam trains chuff their way through bucolic villages.

It seemed out of character for a man of his sort to live in a bucolic village like Hampstead.

The dam was built in a gorge that the Mwenezi River makes when passing though the mountains close to the bucolic village of Magomana.

Vinícius, together with his collaborator Toquinho, wrote and performed an evocative hymn to the bucolic village of the time.