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Turquoise water and a pink-sand cove on the Bermuda coast

March 22, 202614 min read2026

Dateline March 22-26, 2026, Bermuda

Twenty years after our first visit, we returned to the Pompano Beach Club for its couples' golf tournament, three courses, three formats, and a week of new friends from all over. The story of how a Massachusetts man fell for the island and built the resort, a travel day at the mercy of the weather, the famous par 3 hanging over the Atlantic at Port Royal, the history of the Royal Naval Dockyard, John's seventy-ninth birthday in the rain, and golf so bad it could only be called fun.

#Bermuda #Pompano Beach Club #Port Royal

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The twin crater lakes of Sete Cidades in the Azores

Portugal

April 17, 20166 min read2016

Dateline May 1, 2016, Crossing the Atlantic, Tampa to Copenhagen

The first leg of our ten week European adventure was the crossing itself, thirteen days on the Norwegian Star from Tampa to Copenhagen. Between long stretches at sea we paused in Bermuda and spent a glorious day touring Sao Miguel in the Azores with our guide Josef, from the twin crater lakes of Sete Cidades to a mountain lake the wind unveiled just for us. We rode out a storm with waves as high as forty-five feet, sailed up the English Channel past the White Cliffs of Dover, and made friends with three couples we hope to see for years. Crossing the Atlantic, as we found out, is not for sissies.

#Norwegian Star #transatlantic crossing #Azores

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