The Andes became green with forest, and we disembarked at a ramshackle village perched on the banks of the by then raging Urubamba River.

This ramshackle village of 6,000, for example, was once the mountain fortress of the revered 19th-century Chechen warrior Imam Shamil.

This ramshackle village, with no roads, no telephones and no stable livelihoods, seemed destined to disappear.

Then the Colsons bought the estate and, with typical Victorian model behaviour, began to smarten up the ramshackle village of Linkenholt.

Visit the tiny and ramshackle village of Castelluccio, famed for its tiny, sweet lentils.

This action made what was no more than a ramshackle village almost into a well-defended fortress.

When Tricia finally arrives at Mamta's ramshackle village, she finds she must learn to communicate with this woman in ways that transcend their two cultures.

Chatan lay nestled along the shore, a ramshackle village of cheap hotels and seaside restaurants.

London is unrecognizable: dark smoke obscures the sky and leaky pipes circle ramshackle villages.

But the setting, among a community of Jews in a ramshackle Polish village, is definitely off the well-worn cinematic path.