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JEKYLL ISLAND
Once the winter retreat for the nation’s
wealthiest, visit the Jekyll Island
Club remarkably restored compound
with epic grounds, gardens, and
superb historic tours by trolley or night
time horse and lighted pumpkin
carriage rides out of a fairy tale through
The Three Oaks Carriage Company
(www.threeoaksfarm.org). You’ll feel
you’ve emerged into the opulent and
lush world of the film, The Garden of
the Finzi Contini’s and the secluded
Island Club offers rooms in the Club
itself, its Sans Souci, and others – each
with their own unique character.
For a romantic weekend try the 1917
Crane Cottage, modeled after an Italian
Renaissance villa seen by the original
owners and its divine Courtyard at
Crane cafe. We live for their shrimp
pasta and artichoke dish and fantasized
about it the entire way but would order
the slider trio of crab cake, salmon cake
and shrimp salad over and over.
At Crane Cottage, you will be hard
pressed not to imagine you are in
Renaissance Tuscany with its
Mediterranean furnishings, manicured
gardens with loggia, citrus trees,
magnolias, confederate jasmine, rose
bushes and bubbling fountains and
Italianate oak and tile, cypress ceiling
beams and fireplaces. Dine at breakfast
or dinner or have classic English tea
complete with tea sandwiches and
crumpets at the main hotel’s formal
dining room with white table cloths and
silver service.