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BETWEEN summer hurricane season and a sinking real-estate market, Miami’s hurting. But the city’s loss is your gain, and Miami is in overdrive, tempting travelers with bargain-basement prices galore. Book a trip now through September and you’ll get…

GAS prices got you down? Tank up on adrenaline. Triathlon biking in the Adirondacks, hang gliding in the Catskills, and hot-air ballooning in the Hudson River Valley are some of the adventure sports available to fun-loving New Yorkers less than a…

What’s your favorite place to vacation? I love to go skiing in Canada. I love Banff and Whistler. When in doubt, I go to Europe. I’m just lazy that way. A lot of people want to go and climb Kilimanjaro . . . I mean, I’ve been to Africa. I’ve been…

PADUA Bombed to bits in WWII, it’s not much to look at now unless you’re keen to inspect Italy’s hamhanded attempts at modernist architecture. That doesn’t matter, though, since the wealthy city’s most important treasure astonishingly survived the…

Screw the Hamptons or Malibu. The real jetset vacation home destination’s a little further off. Rocky real-estate market be damned: Italy’s emerging as the boldfaced hideout du jour. Even if you can’t make like an A-lister and pick up a mansion with…

THE first thing to know before driving the Prosecco Road in Italy? Buy a good map - the winding streets and hard-to-follow signposts make it a detour-crammed journey. The second thing? Rent a tiny car - those roads are skinnier than Kate Moss on a…

DON’T call it the off-season. Our picks for summertime fun at ski resorts. WHISTLER-BLACKCOMB British Columbia The resort’s lifts will take you and your bike up the mountain, where there are more than 125 miles of trails. Info: whistler blackcomb…

HEAR ye, hear ye - Christopher Columbus is a phony, overrated, Johnny-come-lately who only, at best, discovered somebody else’s sloppy seconds. There, we said it. Seriously, read your Wikip . . . er, history. Before 1492’s to-do kicked off the…

IT’S the dead of summer. Time to hit the slopes. Puzzled? Don’t be. Across North America, ski resorts are shoring up their summer offerings - think everything from water parks to zip lines to luxurious spa treatments. Summertime is increasingly big…

STANDING by the side of Rochester’s Culver Road, I realize that while the map says I am still in New York - specifically, on the southern shoreline of Lake Ontario - I have to admit that I do not recognize the surroundings at all. Strange. A native…