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...over 300 m above the Tyrrhenian Sea (opens in March; tel: [39-089] 818181; www.palazzosasso.com). The famously opulent Grand Wailea in Hawaii features pools and waterslides for swimmers of all ages and the world's only water elevator. But the Wailea's crown jewel is the 450-sq-m Hibiscus Pool with a flower mosaic of 630,000 Mexican glass tiles (tel: [1-800] 888-6100; www.grandwailea.com). Exotic pools are not just the domain of warmer climes: 40 minutes outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, is the year-round, 39°C heat at the Blue Lagoon. Pumped from a geothermal source...
...corner of a dilapidated brick coffee mill, Lindsey Bolger is deep in concentration. Outside the window, the lush cloud forest of Mexico's Veracruz state stretches to a blue-green horizon, and hummingbirds dip into the wild hibiscus. The American, 40, closes her eyes, bending over a row of 12 white cups on a round metal table. Each contains coffee from the new harvest, toasted at 400ºF in a small roaster on the counter. Bolger shakes each cup and sniffs deeply. "I'm looking for defects," she says. "Underripe beans, overripe beans, sour flavors, mold. If even one bean...
...accounts of stock. Always a plant lover, he shrugs off the unlikeliness of the job. "I didn't compare it to what I had done in my professional life," he says. Platt enjoys the perks: he and his wife Mary, 76, have just planted a good selection of bougainvillea, hibiscus and gardenias at home. "I knew I'd enjoy being with the people who worked there," says "Doctor John," as his colleagues call him. A friend who already worked in the garden shop suggested he join the team, he explains, and "I was on the lookout for something...
Even surfboards have gone girly. Kristina Marquez sells boards decorated with glitter, hibiscus cloth cutouts and other decorations for $500 and up at her Santa Cruz store, Paradise Surf Shop. Five years ago, Paradise was the only surf-gear store catering to women. Now other local shops devote large sections to women, a trend being replicated on the East Coast as well...
...which now hype their high-heeled mules instead of the platforms, forgo association with a certain look so that they can morph with current styles. Others, like Alba Rosa and Me Jane, married their style to extreme looks of the past and paid the price: those loud colors and hibiscus flowers might be selling in Beijing and Taipei, but no one in Harajuku is wearing the stuff...