United States

Blur sang about Parklife – Austinities live the park life. All year round, throngs of locals lay down their picnic blankets beside the lakes in Texas’ sun-drenched capital, which boasts colour, character and kookiness aplenty.

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Known for wooded hills, arty little hamlets and colonial charm, New England's Berkshires offer a promise of peaceful escape as well as some superb ski slopes.

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A world apart from its noisy neighbour, New York, Boston is a cornerstone of American history with an altogether arty atmosphere. But that doesn’t mean that this big city doesn’t have bright lights of its own.

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The high reaches of the destination pecking order, the Hamptons in New York’s Long Island is exclusive, fashionable and oh-so desirable.

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Renowned for their stunning natural beauty, Northwest Connecticut's Litchfield Hills are a landscape painter’s dream of pine-forested hills, tranquil, fish-filled lakes and huge open skies.

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LA – a city of silver-screen dreams, where movie moguls, stars and starlets party in the California sunshine.

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Miami is a particularly colourful swirl in the great American melting pot; few cities are more diverse and cosmopolitan, and even fewer can boast white-sand beaches and endless days of perfect sunshine, too.

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Producing some of the best food and wine in the United States, the rolling hills of the Napa Valley and nearby Sonoma are a magnet for gourmands and wine lovers.

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The archetypal modern city, New York is still as big, bold and beautiful as ever.

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Surrounded by the stark beauty of the desert and the snow-capped peak of San Jacinto, the lush green golf courses and tree-lined boulevards of Palm Springs make it the perfect urban oasis.

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With its notoriously creative approach to town planning, its masses of individual boutiques and galleries and the soulful music scene, Portland is no cookie-cutter city.

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Like the lobsters that adorn platters in many of its restaurants, San Diego isn't the most instantly appealing. Unlike Los Angeles, 100 miles up the Pacific coast, its charms aren't on the surface; but crack into its shell and behind the seemingly soulless buildings that line its seafront you'll find a fascinating city with a buoyant youthful edge.

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That bridge, the scenic Bay, those cable cars… San Francisco is a dream location for film-makers – and tourists. Its compact districts, worldly outlook and cultured population give it a cosmopolitan vibe.

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Hugged by the haze of mist that gives them their name, the Smoky Mountains form the southern tip of the Appalachians, both a biodiversity haven and a cradle of classic Southern Americana.

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The Napa Valley is often treated as California’s headline act on the world wine scene, but its smaller sister, Sonoma County is a picture-perfect patchwork of more than 250 wineries, majestic mountains and vast lake vistas.

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Proud, historic and unexpectedly alive with greenery, the capital of the US is much more than the linchpin of governmental machinery; it’s a cultural hotbed of free museums and monuments.

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