Sea Palms Inn

Sponsored by Ocean Palms Retirement Center. Ocean Palm Retirement Center, 2750 SE Ocean Blvd., Stuart, 7:45 am, July 12. 772-287-1088; stuartmartinchamber.org. Sebastian Chamber Of Commerce: Luncheon at Capt. Hiram's Restaurant, Tiffany Room,

That's at Twelve Palms Farm, where you also can get friendly with the cute dwarf Nigerian goats and llamas. Hours at the new market are 10 am to 2 pm Saturdays during July and August. It's hard to beat the deal Titusville Elks Lodge 2113 is offering

I'd last been in Athens five years earlier, when the square's jumble of 19 th century neoclassical facades and 20 th century modernist monstrosities had been cleaned, part-pedestrianized and planted with palms for the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The downtown district, with a smaller budget funded by business owners on the next couple of blocks inland from the sea, uses palm-themed street signs and business-recruitment committees to draw more traffic to Pacific Avenue.

The island that Madonna uses – properly known as Kunfunadhoo – is to barefoot bling what the Stradivarius is to Bach's Partita in E. Lush jungle covers the centre of the island, and its white sand beaches, frilled with palms and coral,