You are sitting in a taverna surrounded by cobblestone streets, pastel-colored houses and Baroque churches, sipping a copito or two of port or vinho verde.

After a bus ride past some of the town's Victorian, pastel-colored houses, we headed for Fort Clatsop near the coast, where the intrepid explorers spent a miserably damp winter.

Canals wind prettily among doddering old pastel-colored houses and houseboats on the island of Christianshavn; kiosks in many public squares wear odd little copper hats.

Its stone forts and pastel-colored houses have not only survived the centuries, but look as vibrant as ever.

The patrol wound its way through the one-story pastel-colored houses with the Italian-influenced "Bar" signs still painted on the doors.

They came into a block of elegant pastel-colored houses with beautiful wrought-iron gates and balconies.

As the train entered the Engadine Valley, we could see the ski trails running along the flat snow-covered fields, past the villages with their pastel-colored houses and clock towers.

Maó's star sight is its beautiful port, and the enjoyable promenade and restaurants and pastel-colored houses that line it.

Situated in the Petén, Guatemala's lowland rain-forest region, San Andrés is a humble town of pastel-colored houses stacked on a lakeside slope.

He promised her a share of the wealth of the rich Creoles who lived in the pastel-colored houses so high in the mountains that they poke holes in the sky.