Where I Spent My Summer Vacation: Celebrity Edition

The New York Post
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By LAURIE HEIFETZ
Last Updated: 12:34 AM, September 1, 2012

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 boldfacers. Many of them (like the rest of us) hit the beach. Or headed to the mountains. Or a lake somewhere. The only difference? Sometimes, that beach, those mountains, those lakes? Halfway around the world. In their own words, let’s have them tell us where they went.

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. We just settled on the lake, jumped into the water and had picnics on the boat. It was surreal.

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.

JUSTIN LONG
I went to The Berkshires, to a lake, with my family. It was small, sacred, relaxing and tranquil. I got to fish and swim.

STEPHEN BALDWIN
Skaneateles Lake, near Syracuse. It’s just very sweet and very mellow, a lot of lovely people up there.

BETTE MIDLER
Brazil, Columbia 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!

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
I was in 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
We went to the south of Spain, to a little town called Zahara de los Atunes. Every May, fishermen catch the tuna, like they’ve been doing for 3000 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 DJ’s 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.

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 swimming 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.

Interviews conducted at NBC’s Primetime Preview, the launch party for Saul Paul’s new album, Tomahawk, at a special screening for the film “For a Good Time, Call”¦”, the New York Women in Communications Matrix Awards luncheon, G-Shock’s 30th anniversary party, the launch of Sugarpova at IT’SUGAR, the James Beard Awards, the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala, Beach at the Dream Downtown hotel, and an event for Chabad.