11.   Buddhist groups in the hill towns generally go their own way, Dvore observes, respecting their differences and letting people come to them rather than proselytizing.

12.   But Coloma is only the chronological starting point for visiting a region that, like the Cotswolds or Tuscan hill towns, best yields its treasures to unhurried exploration.

13.   But he expressed dismay over a new city ordinance that bans the feeding of pigeons in Assisi, the medieval hill town where St. Francis lived and preached.

14.   Difficult to pronounce, this historic and romantic old hill town is easy to like and hard to forget.

15.   Eastport is a hill town rising unexpectedly out of the flat basin of Passamaquoddy Bay.

16.   From medieval hill towns to vineyards, Benedictine monasteries to Etruscan ruins, this guide and a corkscrew would be excellent companions.

17.   I wanted an outsider who would come in and crack the codes of this ingrown, secretive hill town, as I had had to.

18.   In a school in San Mateo Tlatenango, a hill town with a breathtaking view of Mexico City, no citizen observers were around.

19.   In hill towns, weary mink ranchers take turns driving pickups in nighttime patrols, cradling shotguns and searching for suspicious vehicles.

20.   Like most other northern hill towns, Kalimpong was built along a ridge, with commanding views of the plains.