While many of Europe's most glamorous spots now suffer overcrowding, and a rash of developments have replaced olive groves, much of Portugal remains almost untouched.
Having worked in some glamorous spots around the world, Meyerscough's bare feet are firmly planted on the ground – she says she still takes the bus home with her lawyer husband and kids to the Angel.
One senior European official suggested that after the loss of a Senate seat to the Republicans in Massachusetts, Mr. Obama would be doing less traveling to supposedly glamorous spots like Europe that would only feed Republican criticism.
As a marketing manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., James, 38, banked a salary, bonus and stock option package worth $200,000; he traveled to glamorous spots like Tokyo and Sydney; and he enjoyed instant access to brilliant colleagues and seemingly limitless budgets.
For all the glamorous spots along this, the original sunshine coast, it's a deeper joy to stand under the twisting pines at the clifftops, looking out at the lone wake of a passing boat as it fades back into the miraculously blue sea.
Less-glamorous spots such as Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain are booming.
What's Hungarian about the Grand Budapest Hotel, the most glamorous vacation spot in Wes Anderson's fictional Republic of Zubrowka?
This is not a glamorous lineup spot for a veteran power hitter who could reach the Hall of Fame.
