Follow adventurous Athenians to postcard Monemvasia, the Gibraltar of the Peloponnese. You will power-lounge in Corfu where beaches and bars are set into jutting cliffs, then squeeze through the Bay of Kotor to tackle the 1, 350 steps up the steep walls of St John’s fortress then. Embrace Croatia’s curvy coast—caerulean Kotor, the assortment of colonnades, columns and sarcophagi in Zadar, and redolent Rovinj—before following the Grand Canal to Harry’s Bar for a Bellini’s and star gazing Saint Mark’s Basilica.

Sailing between Miami and Heaven with two days at sea leads us into an Ocean State of Mind of curated wellness and culinary experiences. Heart-shaped Magen’s Bay, beloved beach in Charlotte Amalie, rises to undulating mountains dotted with thriving gardens. In Terre-de-Haute and Fort-de-France we find boulangeries selling croissants before rising with dawn to peer into the mile-wide crater near Basseterre.