It’s over, guys. Summer, that is. Back to school, back to work, back to cooler weather (well, eventually). Even for celebrities, A-listers and other various boldfaced types. Many of them — similar to the rest of us — hit the beach. Or went to the mountains. Or a lake somewhere. The only difference: Sometimes, that beach, those mountains, those lakes? Halfway around the world. Let’s get the details — in their own words.
MARIA SHARAPOVA
Lake Powell. It’s beautiful. I took a three-day trip there. We went to Amangiri on the border of Utah and Arizona and took boat trips every day to Lake Powell. We just settled on the lake, jumped into the water and had picnics on the boat. It was so surreal.
JUSTIN LONG
The Berkshires at a lake with my family. It was small, sacred, relaxing and tranquil. I got to fish and swim.
SEAN PAUL
Tahiti. It’s so far away and there’s nothing around it. It’s beautiful and it’s a romantic spot. You’re in the middle of nowhere. They have amazing marine life. I swam with sharks and stingrays. There’s a natural reef that surrounds the island.
GLENN CLOSE
Maine! We went really down east, to Washington County.
TINSLEY MORTIMER
Ibiza. It was my first time and it was so much fun. I didn’t realize you can really relax in Ibiza. You don’t have to go crazy and do the parties where they blast foam on you. I didn’t even go to one of those.
SAMMI “SWEETHEART” GIANCOLA
The Jersey Shore! I love the atmosphere in Seaside Heights — the boardwalk, the beach, there’s no place like it!
JOHN LEGUIZAMO
London. Londoners are really cool, really kind of easy going, very friendly. It’s a really multi-cultural city and just a happening vibe, like Manhattan, just a little smaller and a little prettier.
JOSE ANDRES
South of Spain in a little town called Zahara de los Atunes. Every May, fishermen keep catching tuna, like they’ve been doing for 3,000 years, by putting out nets.
BARBARA WALTERS
I went to Aspen.
NOAH TEPPERBERG
Europe, the usual circuit, Ibiza, France and this year, London for the Olympics. A big part of our business is electronic music and DJs and I checked out the technology and saw what they were doing in Ibiza.
SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER
The Adirondacks — one of the most beautiful places in America! Happy to be in New York.
STEPHEN BALDWIN
Skaneateles Lake, near Syracuse. It’s just very sweet and very mellow, a lot of lovely people up there.
BETTE MIDLER
Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala. Ate the food, food that we don’t get to eat in America all the time, experienced the culture. I love the music!
JENNA ELFMAN
Northern California, camped up the coast with my family in an Airstream.
LESLIE STAHL
China. What intrigued me is how fast things have changed from the last time I was there. Sydney, Australia, which I love! It has that great opera house and the fabulous zoo.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I worked!
JUSTIN BARTHA
Israel. I went with my kids. We kicked off our shoes and got some sand in our feet.
VICTORIA SILVSTEDT
Sardinia — Porto Cervo. The ocean water was unbelievable. The food was to die for. Local wine, bread and pasta.
ICE-T
Arizona, where Coco’s family lives. It’s a lot of desert. I went in their pool.
VICTOR GARBER
Upstate, to my country house near Monroe. I liked that I didn’t have to talk to anybody and I cooked dinner.