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Re: The best island of your experience.
Reply #26 - 09/15/13 at 12:36:26
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Returned from a nice trip to Crete only yesterday.
However, still think I prefer Rhodes.
  

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Re: The best island of your experience.
Reply #25 - 09/15/13 at 08:57:43
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Hello!
It is my first message in your beautiful forum.
My beloved island is naturally my homeland Cephalonia!  Smiley
  
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Yes, I was a "Coast Guard brat".  One of my favorite memories is seeing the "tall ships" in NYC harbor for the bicentennial (1976) from the vantage point of Governor's Island.
  
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Re: The best island of your experience.
Reply #23 - 12/02/12 at 19:17:00
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WSS wrote on 12/02/12 at 17:47:43:
Governors Island in the New York City harbor.  Lived there as a youth.  Not for physical beauty at all... but location and interesting history.  Just a short distance across the water to Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.  Lived in a historic fort with castle walls, cannons and a moat around it.  GI was a Coast Guard base and was sold to the City of New York for one dollar a number of years ago and is now a "historic park."


What, as a Coast Guard kid?  Pretty neat!  Great views from there. But rather cold in winter, I would imagine.
  

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Governors Island in the New York City harbor.  Lived there as a youth.  Not for physical beauty at all... but location and interesting history.  Just a short distance across the water to Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.  Lived in a historic fort with castle walls, cannons and a moat around it.  GI was a Coast Guard base and was sold to the City of New York for one dollar a number of years ago and is now a "historic park."
  
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Reply #20 - 11/29/12 at 09:46:38
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Malta is really nice... outstanding climate!  Cheesy
  
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Reply #19 - 07/24/12 at 12:33:30
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Mahé.
  

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Reply #18 - 07/24/12 at 11:56:27
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Island of Capri is not bad either.
  
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Reply #17 - 07/23/12 at 13:27:10
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don't forget the wine  Wink
  

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Reply #16 - 07/23/12 at 11:47:12
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1. Santorini
2. Rhodes

I'll just back up the other posters Smiley

There is a reason Santorini is such a hot honeymooner location. It has beautiful beaches, amazing history, museums, architecture, mountains, views, hot springs, volcanos and culture.
  
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Re: The best island of your experience.
Reply #15 - 07/22/12 at 19:34:57
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My vote goes to Koh Samui, Thailand; beautiful beaches, wonderful people, great food.
  
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Reply #14 - 07/21/12 at 22:04:39
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I will never forget my experience at Ikaria (the island that got its name from Ikarus of course and has a very old annual chess tournament every July). This is one of the 4 places of the earth that peole live longer than anywhere else on earth! If you visit the island you'll see why!
  
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Reply #13 - 07/21/12 at 19:07:15
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2nd vote:  Key Biscayne.   

I love an island one can drive onto while being close to a large metropolitan area.   Smiley
  
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Reply #12 - 07/21/12 at 08:45:29
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Smyslov_Fan wrote on 07/20/12 at 14:37:17:
Gwnn, Markovich stipulated *small* islands. 


Oops. Smiley Anyway a non-sarcastic answer for me would be the (biggest of the) Azores,interesting geology, kind of cheap, not too touristy. But I haven't been to so many islands so I wouldn't know so well.
  
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