These include beaches on the vacation playgrounds of Rhodes and Corfu.
Lebanon has long been a playground for vacationing Saudis, and it became more so after Sept. 11, 2001, when visas to Europe and the United States were harder to come by.
The playground and summer vacation aspects of the island are everywhere: swings, hammocks, bicycles built for two (or more).
Quechee Lakes Ski Area, (802) 295-9356, which is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and during school vacation weeks, feels like a neighborhood playground devoted to introducing kids to the delights of winter.
"Floribama Shore" swiftly establishes its setting — the vacation town of Panama City Beach, Florida — as a playground, and its stars as people with the unsteady control over their impulses, and bladders, appropriate to playground habitués.
Dr. Vasella, who lives in Switzerland, hopes to vacation next year in Alaska, long one of his favorite playgrounds.
On a vacation in the Pacific Northwest last week, I zoomed down a steep playground slide, my 2-year-old nephew in my lap, and crash-landed on my tailbone.
She has spoken of the island as a "playground for the arts" and she has talked about its character as a "summer vacation with irony".
