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You’ve decided to rent a cottage for a summer vacation. Where do you look for one that is going to give you the idyllic time you and your family need? How do you know that the description you read on a web site or in an advertisement is accurate or indeed really gives the information [...]
Every coastal community has an identity. Cape Cod has shingle-style houses, Palm Beach its large tropical spreads, Monterey a redwood and rocky uniqueness, and the Orange coast, Barclay Butera.
Interior designer Butera, president and CEO of Barclay Butera Inc., is a local boy with a world-class clientele who defines our coastal spirit in his breezy saltwater [...]
Apparently, it takes what Bryn Mawr has, as the Minneapolis neighborhood was named one of the best in the country according to a national magazine’s ratings of the best cottage neighbourhoods in the United States.
“When I first saw it, it kind of felt like home to me,” said Bryn Mawr resident Chris Davis.
Bryn Mawr has [...]
By national park standards, Isle Royale’s tourist tally of 23,000 is small. In June, July or August, you’ll likely find manageable “crowds,” as well as great weather. North of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula lies this lesser-known getaway — a favorite of backpackers, kayakers and world-weary jet-setters who seek unspoiled splendor.
That light human touch shows in Isle [...]
Under blue skies in mild summer temperatures you reap the benefits of months of rain and dampness — lush moss gardens, towering cedar groves, warm beaches crazy wildflowers. Olympic National Park also offers the variety-pack of life zones: wilderness beaches wild with salt spray, rocky headlands and scattered sea stacks; temperate rain forests with more [...]