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America’s 10 Best Beaches For 2025
Since 1991, Dr. Beach—a.k.a. Stephen Leatherman, a professor in the department of Earth & Environment at Florida International University—has released his annual list of the Best Beaches in America. This year’s top spot is, amazingly, not in Hawaii. Coopers Beach in Southampton, New York was ranked No. 1, ahead of two Aloha State beaches, Wailea Beach in Maui and Poipu Beach in Kauai. |
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| “In America there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” | | — Robert Benchley |
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Travel Wise
Heading to Europe this summer? Veteran travel writer Laura Begley Bloom warns that visitors should “think twice before lighting a cigarette on the beach or strolling shirtless down a boardwalk.” With tourism numbers predicted to surge to record levels in 2025, many European destinations have implemented new bans, fines and restrictions that could cost travelers hundreds (if not thousands) of euros. Here’s what you need to know before traveling to Europe. |
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Inside the World’s Largest Hotel Gin Collection
Plenty of travelers have been known to bring back a bottle of gin from a trip to London—or any duty-free shop, for that matter. But one innovative hotel in the Azores has guests packing a bottle when they leave for their trip. “The rules are if they bring one I already have—I get to keep it,” says Ali Bullock, owner of the Solar Branco Eco Estate on the island of São Miguel. “But if it’s a new one they get to swap it for one of my gins. We’re getting incredible gins that you will never see anywhere else in the world all in one place.” Bullock recently secured his 2,000th bottle and claims the largest gin collection of any hotel in the world. “We started with my own personal stash of 300, and now we have bottles from 72 countries and every continent except Antarctica,” he says. “We’ll have someone visit from a small town in Tasmania and say, ‘You don’t have my local gin’ and I’ll say ‘Here it is.’” |
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