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You don’t go to the most isolated islands in the San Juans for the amenities. You go for the quiet, for pitch-black nights with the sound of waves hitting the beach. You go for the rare opportunity to disconnect from your modern, plugged-in life.

When it comes to basking in the beauty of the Italian Riviera, the Cinque Terre is tops for me. But there’s much more to this region on the Mediterranean coast than those famous five villages.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s new provincial museum in downtown Edmonton is officially open. Premier Rachel Notley unveiled a life-sized statue of the Royal Alberta Museum’s signature Ice Age mammoth in the main rotunda Wednesday. The museum, which cost $375.

It was my second attempt to manage the tiller of the 61-foot-long narrowboat. The first one hadn’t gone especially well. It felt like pushing a fully grown Douglas fir down a slalom run with a pool cue.

The French countryside is littered with medieval monasteries — stony, quiet, and atmospheric. Some are in a state of ruin; others are still home to peaceful monks or sisters going about their religious work.

GANGI, Italy — Far from the packed beaches of Sicily’s busy coastlines, there’s a quieter and wilder world in its high mountains.

Tens of thousands of employees at more than 18,000 U.S. hotels will soon carry panic buttons to help protect them from harassment and assault in an era of heightened awareness around the #MeToo movement.

HONOLULU — United Airlines is planning to invest $200 million US in upgrades to Hawaii airports over the next decade, officials said.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president-elect wants to bring tourism revenues to remote and forgotten stretches of Mexico, but some are scratching their heads at his main proposal: to build a $3.

To see or not to see? Nonliterary types might find touristy Stratford-Upon-Avon to be much ado about nothing, but Shakespeare’s hometown is blanketed with opportunities for Bardolatry.