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Peasant Restaurant New York City

Peasant Restaurant is a cozy, romantic Italian restaurant features three rows of tables packed tightly together and perfect mood lighting for surreptitious corner canoodling. The ambiance is just right, and the menu from owner-chef Frank DeCarlo does not disappoint, either, especially the lasagne, spaghetti, risotto and open-fire-cooked pizzas.

Na Pali Coast State Park Kauai, Hawaii

The Na Pali (‘The Cliffs’) Coast is the Hawaii of your dreams: 22 miles of vibrant green valleys with nearly vertical walls and thundering waterfalls plunging into the sea from cliffs as high as 4,000 feet. Hawaii’s last true wilderness, where no road will ever cross, it is protected as the Na Pali Coast State Park, whose 6,500 acres hug the northwest shore of Kauai between Ke’e Beach and Polihale State Park

Minnesota Golf Resorts

Minnesota is a fantastic place to play golf. The many fine Minnesota golf resorts located in various parts of the state are perfect destinations for your summer get-away. Listing all the Minnesota golf resorts and their amenities would be quite lengthy and the space of this article does not permit that degree of detail. Instead I will highlight a couple of favorite Minnesota golf resort destinations, but rest assured that there are many other fine locations across the state.

The Mark Twain House and Museum – Hartford, Connecticut

Literary fans come from around the world to visit the home of beloved author Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, a pen name he derived from the term used by Mississippi River pilots to indicate a water depth of two fathoms. “To us,” Twain said, “our house…had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with…It was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.”

The Kentucky Derby Louisville, Kentucky

“This Kentucky Derby, whatever it is—a race, an emotion, a turbulence, an explosion—is one of the most beautiful and violent and satisfying things I have ever experienced,” wrote novelist John Steinbeck. Billed with little exaggeration as ‘the greatest two minutes in sports’, the Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held sporting event in America and one of the most prestigious horse races in the world.

Exploring Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Massachusetts

Christened in 1602 by British explorer Bartholomew Gosnold in honour of his daughter, Martha’s Vineyard is no longer covered in wild grapes. Today, it’s an island of beautiful beaches, woods, farmland, cranberry bogs, charming inns and tourists, distinguished from neighbouring Nantucket by its proximity to the mainland and its Cape Cod-like variety of landscapes and communities.