When winter winds howl, the perfect island vacation with blissful days and nights in a pleasant temperature climate can be an invigorating boost for body and soul.
Family vacation houses offer a constancy of place that nurtures us as the decades and the inevitable changes roll over our lives and generations.
Somewhere beneath the St. Ann’s Fort is a vaulted area housing some of the oldest cannons in the world.
Everyone says, dreamily, "it's the Paris of the Middle East." It's not. Beirut is its own funky animal: tense, beautiful, cracking with growth, assaulted by civil strife, graffitied with advertising for Starbucks and Applebees and perfumes from Paris, but without jobs for women, without futures for the young people bristling with university degrees.
Small Island in the Chesapeake Bay, populated mostly by Crab Harvesters, known as Watermen.
This is a complex of saltpans, a huge, flat expanses of hot, sun-baked terrain fringed by vegetated islands on vast shallow inland seas. For the majority of the year, the pans are dry and desolate – the only remains of the vast super lake that once covered over 60 000 square kiometres of the area.
Rock Island, Wisconsin: A Place Where Solitude Reigns.
At the mouth of Green Bay lies Rock Island, a place whose rich history is matched by it’s natural beauty. The island’s ideal location was coveted by a variety of inhabitants.
Raouché is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon. It is known for its upscale apartment buildings, cliff-side cafés and its wide seaside sidewalk, the Corniche, where strollers and joggers crowd the pavements in the evenings and weekends.
Off the coast of Raouche, there is a natural landmark called the Pigeon Rocks.
Santa Catalina Island, CA