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| | Travel: Pantelleria |
 | | Pantelleria, a windswept, stark, ancient volcanic island less than 35 miles off the coast of Tunisia, is most definitely the place to head to when you want to leave the world behind. |
 | | But on Pantelleria, peace, solitude and amazing ancient and natural beauty are all around you
, which for a high strung New Yorker, needing a fix of CNN and the requisite DSL or better Internet connection, proved a bit hard to take. |
 | | As Pantelleria is a volcanic island, thermal springs were plentiful and accessible, assuming you were willing to climb down, sometimes rather precarious paths to the Pantelleria beaches. |
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