The clifftop was a peaceful place, a spot where one might lie in the summertime, guessing the shapes of scudding clouds. ❋ Pierson, Chris (2001)
Kirker also has a clifftop hotel with Mediterranean views, a boutique hotel in Ibiza old town, and a design hotel in a family-friendly beach resort.• 020-7593 1899, kirkerholidays.com; three nights at Es Coucons from £629pp B&B, including return flights and car hireTasting menus for set menu pricesUntil the end of May, a number of leading restaurants in Ibiza are offering a five-course tasting menu, including wine, for €35 a head. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Gothic revivalist Augustus Pugin designed much of the interior of the House of Lords while overlooking Goodwin Sands from his clifftop home. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The clifftop city of Tulum stands like a silent sentry over the aquamarine waters of the Caribbean. ❋ Bob Schulman (2010)
At the northern headland of Kini bay, take the footpath north for a 2km clifftop walk through heather to the sandy beach of Delfini. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Farmers on a clifftop carry on ploughing the fields and watching their sheep as if nothing has happened. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But horror is never far behind, as she discovers when a body is found at a museum in a decaying clifftop mansion whose shadowy staff is dedicated to discovering the secrets of the sea. ❋ Maxine (2009)
For a clifftop view of the town, though, there's a steep climb up the 699 steps of Jacob's Ladder, a challenge for even the fittest walker. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A climb to the top of Jacob's ladder provides clifftop views of Jamestown, St Helena's capital. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A horse that can leap from a clifftop, through the sky, across the whole wide sea itself, to the horizon? ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)
We hauled a whole bunch of traprock up slope to use as trail edges and erosion stops, moved a rock roughly the size of a coffee table to make a step on one of the staircases up to the clifftop, and (while quoteing Robert Frost at each other) built a dry stone wall to reroute traffic around an eroded trail section. ❋ Matociquala (2009)
Eventually it comes, leading him to the clifftop scene where a man has been shot in the head, execution style. ❋ Maxine (2009)
The head of the Sisters of High Danu seemed as eternal as the ancient standing stones guarding a nearby clifftop meadow. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)
