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A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay

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Course for Eden: A Nautical Itinerary Through Northeastern Sardinia’s Most Chic Ports

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Let me tell you right away. Whenever I’m asked which stretch of Sardinia’s coastline I feel most attached to, what I might call “my route of the heart,” the answer is always the same: the coast of…

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