It is the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes who have led the return to the Croatian coast - which in Communist years was East Europeans' best hope of a Mediterranean vacation.

He has since been to Spain perhaps 25 times, he said, sometimes simply for a Mediterranean vacation but often for work.

Then, when Lilco's electric wires were decimated by Hurricane Gloria in 1985, Dr. Catacosinos chose not to return from a Mediterranean vacation.

On a Mediterranean vacation, three resolutely single friends meet three impressive women.

She was a creature of the media, like her peers; she was at ease in a world of Hollywood movie culture, Mediterranean vacations and sexual honesty.

If a Mediterranean vacation seems like the wrong occasion to wrestle with Greene's favorite themes, at least one can trace his wanderings around the island.

By Act II, Shirley has achieved her promised leap of rebellion: She has traveled to the foreign land of self-realization by running away to join her best friend on a Mediterranean vacation.

Almost certainly, that wasn't a surprise to marketing-savvy teenagers who knew these stars wouldn't interrupt their Mediterranean vacations or their Hummer shopping to show up at the polls.

Steven T. Florio, the chief executive of Condé Nast, cruised in from Nantucket on his sailboat, which had sprung a leak; and at least one magazine editor who asked to remain anonymous recovered from a quote-unquote Mediterranean vacation that was really an eye tuck on the Upper East Side.

He gives equal time, however, to recalling the touristic glories of a Mediterranean vacation with his wife, Grace Anne, about whom he writes with admirable tenderness.