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Karina Halle is a former travel writer who lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia. She is the author of Racing The Sun, out now from sister company Simon & Schuster. Stunning blue waters ...

reporting from Capri, Italy — “Don’t go there,” a well-traveled friend said when I mentioned my plans to visit Capri, a sunny island off southern Italy. Why? “You’re not going to want to come home,” ...