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Location: Crete, Greece What's Cool: Hiking the beach's rocky outcrops ----------------------------------------- With its cobalt blue waters, sun-bleached cottages, ancient ruins and red sandstone cliffs, Crete's Red Beach is picturesque to say the least. Made famous in 1968 when hippies from across Europe flocked to its shores, the resort at Red Beach has remained a naturist favorite for its rustic charm and its tolerance (nudity is allowed everywhere except the dining room). Visitors to Red Beach will find the area's ancient caves interesting, as well as sunken bits of his...

In Ireland cliches come to life... a green landscape brushed with rain... a wild coastline bordering a windblown sea... the sound of an Irish fiddle in a cozy village pub warmed by a turf fire and lively conversation. Scenes straight out of the movies. Literary, poetic, gifted in the art of conversation, the Irish extend their love of language even to the names of counties and towns, which roll off the tongue like music: Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Kilkenny. For a taste of Irish culture, from the Abbey Theatre to traditional music, proceed directly to Dublin, where Joyce, Shaw, and Y...

Acklins and Crooked Island are two of the four islands forming an atoll which hugs the beautiful shallow waters of the Bight of Acklins. Bordered by the nearly uninhabited Castle Island and Long Cay, they are as natural as they were when The Bahamas was first "discovered." Columbus reputedly sailed down the leeward side of the islands through the narrow Crooked Island Passage, which has ever since served as an important route for steam ships travelling from Europe to Central and South America. This seaway, referred to locally as 'the going through,' also earned these islands the notori...

In the 1800s, the island of Pico was a familiar port of call for Nantucket whalers, a remote Atlantic island famed in both America and Europe for its fine verdelho wine, and considered perhaps the loveliest of the Azores. Sadly, those grape vines were lost to disease before the century ended, but reminders of the isle’s whaling heritage are still evident on Pico today – and although jets have made the Portuguese archipelago a little less remote, the world of modern tourism has mostly passed by this chain of nine islands. And a lovely chain it is, with vast green patchworks of farms and fie...

If there is an island synonymous with the word "party," it’s Ibiza. For Europeans, this free spirit of the Balearic Islands off Spain is legendary not only for its beaches (more than 70 tucked around the island, some in small, hidden coves) but for its clubs and all-night raves. You might be thinking disco, but that term doesn’t begin to do justice to the anything-goes venues that can accommodate 5,000 guests, complete with swimming pools – and where hedonistically charged entertainments can be part theater and part circus, complete with dancers enveloped in bubbly foam showered from cannons. ...