Geraldine Brooks

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

Australian Journalist

Dan Jenkins

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

American Author

Mark Barrowcliffe

I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

English Writer

Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Verandas are associated with leisure time, often used for relaxing or entertaining guests.

Outdoor Relaxation

A veranda is a structural part of a building, not something that is added later.

Architectural Feature

While open to the elements on one side, a veranda is covered, offering shelter from sun or rain.

Sheltered Space

 returned to us by an official representative there was a bit of a standoff on my mother's front veranda I refused to take it back my mother took it back out of embarrassment my parents raised me with the idea that in this country with the right amount of

Welcome to Atlantium,...

 Mainly as a girl, I learned, as a girl, that anger is an emotion better left entirely unvoiced. Think about my mother for a minute. When I was 15, I came home from school one day, and she was standing on a long veranda outside of our kitchen,

The power of women's...

 the end to the veranda floors then she goes back up again trailing a second line which she sticks to the first so strengthening it then she pulls the line tight that is a crucial element in the construction

Red Back Spider PIPE...

 proudly the veranda of Mecca and it's populated largely by traders with very hour of features and etc if you travel a distance from equivalent of London to Tehran you pass