The story of Sea Island and its grand hotel, The Cloister, began at the end of one financial golden age the private island resort opened in 1928 and nearly came to grief at the end of another, as its family owners, crippled by the disasters of 2008, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010.

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Sea Island was a golden-egg goose, a place where well-heeled families returned generation after generation, where dinner required tuxedos two nights a week, and the grounds were dotted with ceremonial oaks planted by presidents, royals and prime ministers.

FORBES: Sea Island Renaissance

The route is simple: a straight out departure, staying left of the 101 freeway, past San Carlos Airport, past SFO airport, through South San Francisco, and into downtown San Francisco, over the Oakland Bay Bridge, past Alcatraz Island, over the Golden Gate Bridge, then south following the coastline to Half Moon Bay and back east to PAO.

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Seams were golden, with handiwork done in Long Island City, New York.

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Villagers on the Greek island of Thassos have prevented the nationalist Golden Dawn party from handing out free food and other basic goods.

BBC: Greek villagers block Golden Dawn food handout on Thassos

Thirteen years ago, Abramson and Griggs bought an eighteenth-century house near Long Island Sound in Madison, Connecticut, where Scout, their golden retriever, frolics in the water and they can take long walks.

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The main island, Apo Island -- not to be confused with the better known island of the same name off the island of Negros in the central Philippines -- is a palm-fringed beauty, ringed by golden sand and home to an emerald-green interior lagoon embraced by mangroves.

BBC: The undiscovered jewel of the Philippines