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Claus Jensen Junior Member Offline I Love Chess! Posts: 72 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: 08/15/11 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #26 - 09/15/13 at 12:36:26	Post Tools	Print Post
	Returned from a nice trip to Crete only yesterday. However, still think I prefer Rhodes.

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Aggelos Cefalonian YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1 Location: Greece Joined: 09/15/13 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #25 - 09/15/13 at 08:57:43	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hello! It is my first message in your beautiful forum. My beloved island is naturally my homeland Cephalonia!


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WSS Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 273 Joined: 04/22/11	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #24 - 12/02/12 at 19:47:31	Post Tools	Print Post
	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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Markovich God Member Offline Posts: 6099 Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 09/17/04	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #23 - 12/02/12 at 19:17:00	Post Tools	Print Post
	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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WSS Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 273 Joined: 04/22/11	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #22 - 12/02/12 at 17:47:43	Post Tools	Print Post
	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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Bibs God Member Offline Posts: 2343 Joined: 10/24/06	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #21 - 11/30/12 at 04:06:11	Post Tools	Print Post
	Sheppey


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daviddol Ex Member I Love ChessPublishing!	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #20 - 11/29/12 at 09:46:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	Malta is really nice... outstanding climate!


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Jupp53 YaBB Moderator Offline be Posts: 988 Location: Frankfurt/Main Joined: 01/04/09 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #19 - 07/24/12 at 12:33:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	Mahé.

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trw God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1414 Joined: 05/06/08 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #18 - 07/24/12 at 11:56:27	Post Tools	Print Post
	Island of Capri is not bad either.


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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 #17 - 07/23/12 at 13:27:10	Post Tools	Print Post
	don't forget the wine

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trw God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1414 Joined: 05/06/08 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #16 - 07/23/12 at 11:47:12	Post Tools	Print Post
	1. Santorini 2. Rhodes I'll just back up the other posters 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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Laramonet Senior Member Offline Gwyddbwll am byth ! Posts: 346 Location: Kidwelly Joined: 03/16/07 Gender:	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #15 - 07/22/12 at 19:34:57	Post Tools	Print Post
	My vote goes to Koh Samui, Thailand; beautiful beaches, wonderful people, great food.


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Ametanoitos God Member Offline The road to success is under construction Posts: 1429 Location: Patras Joined: 01/04/05	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #14 - 07/21/12 at 22:04:39	Post Tools	Print Post
	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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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 #13 - 07/21/12 at 19:07:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	2nd vote: Key Biscayne. I love an island one can drive onto while being close to a large metropolitan area.


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gwnn Senior Member Offline Posts: 472 Joined: 03/21/11	Re: The best island of your experience. Reply #12 - 07/21/12 at 08:45:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Smyslov_Fan wrote on 07/20/12 at 14:37:17: Gwnn, Markovich stipulated small islands. Oops. 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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