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...more Americans are retiring south of the border, where the cost of living is low and the weather is excellent year-round. An hour's drive south of Guadalajara is Lake Chapala, with a large colony of U.S. retirees. For a place with fewer gringos, consider Guanajuato, a charming hilltop university town...
...precipitous mountainsides. Its atmosphere reflects a myriad of influences. Chinese temples share streets with grocery markets. The aroma of fresh-baked Portuguese castella cakes wafts out of bakeries standing amid sake bars decorated with red lanterns. Victorian-style European buildings have been preserved at Glover Gardens, a well-tended hilltop refuge named for Scotsman Thomas Glover who made his fortune in shipbuilding in Japan in the late 1800s. According to local lore, Glover's home inspired the setting for Puccini's Madame Butterfly...
...every vacation for the 15 years that the design and building of the Getty took--all the time of their growing up--they spent with me in L.A. I lived next to the site there, and before construction began, we would amble along the trails, looking at the hilltop grounds in different light at different times of day. It was beautiful. During construction, we would saunter through the empty site every weekend, just the three of us. In 1997, when the throngs arrived for the big opening ceremonies, Ana, then 17, said jokingly, "Dad, what are all these people doing...
...Villa La Selva, situated on land held until the 15th century by the famed Medici family. Owner Sergio Carpini, 71, spends every spare moment hunting for antique furniture and fine Italian marble and textiles with which to furnish his guest rooms. Carpini is putting the final touches on a hilltop villa that sleeps 20. Initial restorations uncovered a Madonna and the wooden bearings of a house from the early 16th century. "Like the masterpieces in the museums," says Carpini, "this is our patrimony that must be preserved." Here too are some 200 acres of vineyards, olive groves and small lakes...
...meal at Chez Claude's is required dining in Sihanoukville. A mixed green salad with grilled shrimp and scallops and an entrée of lemon and garlic trout cost a pricey (for Cambodia) $13, but I would have paid that just for the hilltop view of the Gulf of Thailand. Be sure to prearrange a ride back to your guesthouse if you go at night because there's little traffic on this pitch-dark stretch of highway...