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Girkassa Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 433 Joined: 04/07/07	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #11 - 07/20/12 at 18:58:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	Rhodes. Maybe a little biased since that was our honeymoon.


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Dink Heckler God Member Offline Love-Forty Posts: 902 Joined: 02/01/07 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #10 - 07/20/12 at 16:47:44	Post Tools	Print Post
	MNb wrote on 07/19/12 at 03:16:52: Malta. Very nice people, excellent and incredibly cheap local wine. Ideal destination in say february. I remember some newspaper columnist a few years back, relaying how she'd run into an old acquaintance... 'How are you?' 'Not so well; I've been diagnosed with prostate cancer' 'Oh, that's awful...' 'I was going to say that it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me, but then I remember those two weeks in Malta...'

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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #9 - 07/20/12 at 14:37:17	Post Tools	Print Post
	Gwnn, Markovich stipulated small islands.


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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #8 - 07/20/12 at 14:06:35	Post Tools	Print Post
	Great Britain. Great food and weather.


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GMTonyKosten YaBB Administrator Offline Mr Dynamic? Posts: 3199 Location: Clermont-Ferrand Joined: 12/19/02 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #7 - 07/20/12 at 09:42:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	I enjoyed all my visits to La Réunion (especially when the volcano was erupting!), the culture, the food, the beaches, but also the chess!


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Alias God Member Offline Posts: 1512 Location: East of the river Svartån Joined: 11/19/04	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #6 - 07/20/12 at 09:24:12	Post Tools	Print Post
	Sardinia.

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barnaby Senior Member Offline The night is dark and full of terrors. Posts: 345 Joined: 01/09/12 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #5 - 07/19/12 at 19:20:19	Post Tools	Print Post
	Majorca


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chk God Member Offline a pawn is a pawn Posts: 1063 Location: Athens Joined: 10/26/06 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #4 - 07/19/12 at 10:20:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	For romantic souls like me, it's Santorini, esp. if you can afford to stay in the town of Oia (I cannot decide if it looks better under the sunset or the moonlight).

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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #3 - 07/19/12 at 07:37:55	Post Tools	Print Post
	Smyslov_Fan wrote on 07/19/12 at 04:09:26: Maui's not bad. But my favorite is a bit farther north: Kauai is a bit more remote, a bit more rugged, and the snorkelling there is fantastic. My other favorite is the Big Island of Hawaii. The climate zones go from tropical to desert to mountain glaciers! The culture is touristy in and around Kona, and almost Japanese in Hilo. The weather in Kona is predictably a low of 75F and a high of 85, with sun. The weather in Hilo is 10 degrees cooler and rainy. You can get everything you want there, except extreme seasonal shifts. The water sport there is almost as good as Kauai. There's even a night life in the tourist areas! The only thing these two islands, and all of Hawaii lack, is a chess scene. ...brought a smile to my face.

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Smyslov_Fan YaBB Moderator Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #2 - 07/19/12 at 04:09:26	Post Tools	Print Post
	Maui's not bad. But my favorite is a bit farther north: Kauai is a bit more remote, a bit more rugged, and the snorkelling there is fantastic. My other favorite is the Big Island of Hawaii. The climate zones go from tropical to desert to mountain glaciers! The culture is touristy in and around Kona, and almost Japanese in Hilo. The weather in Kona is predictably a low of 75F and a high of 85, with sun. The weather in Hilo is 10 degrees cooler and rainy. You can get everything you want there, except extreme seasonal shifts. The water sport there is almost as good as Kauai. There's even a night life in the tourist areas! The only thing these two islands, and all of Hawaii lack, is a chess scene.


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10780 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #1 - 07/19/12 at 03:16:52	Post Tools	Print Post
	Malta. Very nice people, excellent and incredibly cheap local wine. Ideal destination in say february.
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Markovich God Member Offline Posts: 6099 Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 09/17/04	The best island of your experience. 07/19/12 at 00:50:35	Post Tools	Print Post
	Must be small, let's say, no larger than Jamaica, which is 4,244 square miles in area. Best small island so far in my life: Maui. Rainforests, mountains, deserts, beautiful trees and flowers, unbeatable weather; outstanding beaches. Rainbows. Plenty moe. Plenty wahine.

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