In my book Naked Retirement, I ask readers to assume they are celebrating their retirement on a wonderful Mediterranean cruise when suddenly they become stranded on a deserted island.

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Algiers felt like a deserted island in the 1940s.

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Eventually you get up to Poo Planet, and I suppose, Poo Universe, which must be equivalent to being stranded on a deserted island with Liz Taylor, Michael Jackson and Hannibal Lecter all at once.

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Situated on a remote and otherwise deserted island distinguished by serous limestone cliffs, Lagen has 50 private rooms, including a crescent of eight hip-roofed cottages poised on stilts in an oval of placid water that's the color of molten Coke bottles.

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In 1528, on a return voyage to America, Verrazzano went ashore on a Caribbean island that appeared deserted.

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Ringed in white stone beaches, the island has numerous deserted coves, a small, fully equipped, modern marina, a handful of seaside restaurants and one very cool beach bar.

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Except it now appears that instead of 150 months in prison, Talley may be put on a ship and sent out of the country to some deserted island.

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