Heading back to pack our bags beneath those same glowering ancestors (who somehow now look less forbidding) we consider how the misadventure of an ill-timed traffic jam on the Bosphorus Bridge brought us to this hidden island paradise.
The coins are thought to have been hidden in the island by tribesmen from Gaul trying to keep it from Caesar and his army around 50 BC.
As his boat drifts through a hidden lagoon on the uninhabited island of Ko Hong, he cocks his head to listen to a family of macaques chattering among the mangroves.
Plans are being formulated to establish a system of food banks across the Isle of Man, with the aim of helping the island's "hidden hungry".
The next day, book a tour with Secret Hvar ( secrethvar.com), a local outfitter that takes visitors into the island's interior and to see hidden chunks of coastline.
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The luxuries of Greece are often hidden behind closed doors, and that includes the lavish island estates that owners rent out only discreetly, sometimes secretly.
With its golf holes playing out to the sea and salt marsh, its dunes patrolled by brown pelicans, and lanes overhung with Spanish moss, Sea Island has the air of a genteel, hidden enclave, at ease and above the fray.
Mr. Fischl tells the story in painful detail: the secret shame and anguish hidden in outwardly serene homes first on the north shore of Long Island and later in Phoenix.
Beer nuts are well served over at Salt Spring Island Ales, occupying a rustic, cedar-built shack hidden between trees 11km north of the vineyard.
The American guitarist Ry Cooder brought together some of the island's aging local legends for the album, realizing that if no one else preserved the hidden musical gems, they might be lost forever.
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