Where to go, and when · with the homework done
AZORES · WHALE WATCHING · ALL YEAR Three hours out on the Atlantic, an empty horizon, and a morning spent paying for it. That is the fear most people book with, and the Azores answer it with one figure from the regional tourist board: whales or dolphins are spotted on 98% of trips, regardless of … Read more
SPACE COAST · FLORIDA · BREVARD COUNTY Three federal agencies hold overlapping ground on one stretch of the Atlantic in Brevard County. NASA runs the John F. Kennedy Space Center. The US Fish and Wildlife Service runs Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, all 140,000 acres of it. The National Park Service runs Canaveral National Seashore, … Read more
FUNCHAL · MADEIRA · THE CITY GUIDE Funchal is a city stacked on a slope, and the ride up it is what most visitors book first. The Teleférico do Funchal lifts you from the seafront to the village of Monte for €22 return or €16 one way, running 08:45 to 17:45 every day of the … Read more
CLEARWATER · FLORIDA · THE CITY GUIDE Clearwater sells itself on sand, and the state’s own 2024 facility inventory shows how unevenly that sand is served. Three state-park islands sit within sight of the city. Honeymoon Island holds 4 miles of beach and 2,021 parking spaces, the largest parking count of any Florida state park … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE · FLORIDA · THE CITY GUIDE Fort Lauderdale sells a beach, and the State of Florida has counted that beach for you, down to the foot. The inventory Tallahassee publishes gives Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park 1,410 parking spaces, 2.2 miles of sand, 2.6 miles of hiking trail and 4,531 feet … Read more
TAMPA · FLORIDA · THE CITY GUIDE Tampa is a cruise homeport rather than a port of call: Port Tampa Bay homeports eight vessels from five cruise lines. You fly in and sail out of it, which is a different trip from a city where a hull ties up for six hours and leaves. The … Read more
