Travel Without Your Kids: Thorp recently returned from a kid-free trip to Iceland with her husband, which found them exploring thermal pools, the Viking culture, and romantic moonscapes of the island.

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North of Imerovigli, Oia, the highest village on the island is the most romantic and the busiest with its cluster of restaurants and shops.

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Two classical musicians, Jan and Eva Rosenberg (Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann), have abandoned their careers to live in a stone house on a remote island, in rural, romantic refuge from a military conflict on the mainland.

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For the romantic adventurer, Portland Kayak Company offers guided sunset and moonlight tours of Ross Island, the biggest of the four forested Willamette River islands.

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The coastal village of Bamburgh is an "unspoilt hamlet dwarfed by the romantic profile of an intimidating castle" and Lindisfarne is a magical, two-mile square island.

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The Amanikan, their 3-cabin 105-foot coastal cruiser magically infuses the romantic old spice trading-type vessel with luxurious modern amenities and proceeds slowly through the Nusa Tenggara island chain.

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