deserted

After dessert, with Rob still engrossed in conversation, I left the group, walked around the hotel grounds and found a quiet, deserted pool at the edge of a steep cliff.

But hundreds of thousands of the city's residents are still living as refugees in Chad, and I saw many deserted and destroyed neighbourhoods as we drove around.

Team officials attempted to break up the players, as some spectators deserted their seats.

"We found this statistic: half a million people used to walk across Westminster Bridge, take a picture of the Houses of Parliament and then walk back north. The Southbank in 1993-94 was deserted."

"Places were dimly lit and there was no heating, apart from in our hotel rooms," he said, noting a trip to a cold, dark and deserted art gallery.