Palm Beach Gardens is the ultimate destination for global fashion stores and delicious restaurants. Swing by the luxurious Gardens Mall for upscale boutiques or try the open-air centers of Midtown, Downtown at the Gardens and PGA Commons. The Gardens hosts Cognizant Classic (formerly The Honda Classic) gold championship, drawing many of the world’s top PGA Tour players.

The beguinages of Flanders and the Netherlands are always oases of calm and stillness, where you might still expect to see an old beguine mumbling her prayers in a doorway. Two of Ghent’s three beguinages have been included on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Although the Old St Elizabeth Beguinage, in Begijnhofdries in Ghent, is no longer enclosed by a wall, making it simply part of the city, it still has a unique atmosphere. Today the Old St Elizabeth Beguinage is known as ‘holy corner’, a place of religious tolerance, because it has no less than three different churches: one is Roman Catholic, one is Orthodox and the other is Protestant. From bleachfield to orchard This open beguinage grew into something of a ‘beguine city’ in the 13th century, with a church, the ‘Grootjuffer’s House’, an infirmary, a chapel, more than a hundred houses for beguines, a bleachfield (a field where linen was laid out to bleach) and an orchard. After the French Revolution, with increasing industrialisation, the inhabitants moved to their new beguinage in Sint-Amandsberg in 1873.

West or East on Glades Road there’s no shortage of shopping. The must-do is Town Center at Boca Raton. Then, make time to shop University Commons and Shops at Boca Center. FAU Stadium, located right off Glades, is home to the annual Boca Raton Bowl.