More than anything, Mr. Green was a social sorcerer, a host of some skill at a collection of unusual houses that included a colonial-era mansion in Cartagena, Colombia, and a cluster of beach shacks in Oakleyville, a flyspeck town at the edge of the Sunken Forest on Fire Island.
For the past century, Jurmala, the collective name for the cluster of beach towns located on a tiny peninsula in the Baltic Sea, has been the summer haunt for any Eastern European worth his sea salt, including Leonid Brezhnev and Gustav V, King of Sweden.
(Under a microscope, the eggs resemble little clusters of beach balls floating on a raft).
Given time and the desire for variation, it is worth making the trip to southern Goa's answer to the Mandrem area – a cluster of three beaches named Palolem, Patnem and Agonda – on the Konkan Railway (konkanrailway.com) from Pernem in the north to Canacona in the south.
Not just a cluster of fabulous beaches, Mauritius is also a diverse country with a wide-ranging heritage present in its Dutch fortress and Hindu temples.
Home: Boutique beach huts This cluster of brand new beach hut- style retreats near Ilfracombe in Devon makes for a romantic seaside escape, and you can still snap one up for July or August.
The whole country, a cluster of white sandy beaches as far as can be from the rest of the planet, is expected to disappear entirely within the next 50 years.
We ate a handful of short beach grass that tasted like oysters, and a cluster of spicy lilac beach-mustard flowers that made the mustard in jars seem tame.
More recently, the cluster of low-key beach huts has gone upmarket, with a proliferation of hotels, restaurants and bars springing up along the main beach strip.
$790 round trip from NYC. Credit: Rob Hainer/Shutterstock. Panama City, Panama Cheapest night accommodation: $13 Cheapest daily food cost: $8 Central America attracts a lot of budget travelers, most of whom cluster around the beaches of Costa Rica.
