You could shack up in a dank apartment or chain hotel room when your job or your family vacation beckons you abroad.

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It is turned into heroin along the way in so-called factories that may be nothing more than a shack, going up in value of course at every stage.

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He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack.

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The best place to saddle up with a board is at the thatched shack beside the tourist information centre in Hangaroa, easily spotted by its bright orange walls.

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Casa Maravilla, located next door, is owned by Belgian immigrant Marc Bautil and his wife Elvira, who was born in the Philippines and grew up in the US. The highlight of Maravilla is the beautiful multi-storey wooden bohio (a shack made of straw or wood, whose main living area has open sides and a view of the beach), providing a real Robinson Crusoe feel.

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