● First,ask the children to study each picture and find the differences.Then ask them to say why the homes have their own features.For example,some houses have high stilts(支柱) because there is too much rain every year and some houses have chimneys (烟囱) because it is...
Quickly we began to understand the spell-binding charm of this village. The village pier where you get off has quirky wooden houses on stilts attached to it. As you continue onto the island, you step right onto the main road of the village. Who can resist a village where the main road ...
In December 1967, Abbie, his wife Anita and I decided to take our first real vacation, in the Florida Keys. We rented a small house on stilts in Ramrod Key. This was the week before Christmas. We bought a small tree and spray painted it with canned snow. Now, we were tripping on L...
housed thousands of Allied airmen who had fallen into German hands. Constructed with barrack blockhouses that were raised on stilts (to enable guards to keep an eye on tunneling attempts); built atop sandy soil (to make it easy to spot the darker soil produced through excavation); and surroun...
and fitted with outdoor jungle showers and striking brass bathtubs. For more elevated living, you can check into one of two, two-storey tree houses built on stilts overlooking the Indian Ocean, and connected by a bamboo bridge. Or, go all out and splurge $14,000 a night...