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Well, maybe it still is the beaches.  Grenada came to fame as a minor military squabble a few decades ago, but the location and beaches still are a big draw, read more here.

GRENADA — Friends gave Amanda Robinson and Tim Schenk strange looks when the couple announced they were spending their honeymoon on this southeastern Caribbean island, still better known to most Americans for its political past than as a vacation paradise.

"They said, 'Isn't that the place we invaded?' " says Robinson, of Greenwich, Conn. She's referring to the military action ordered by President Reagan in 1983.

But for this active pair, who spent their week snorkeling off white sand beaches and trekking throughout the island's mountainous interior, such associations are merely a historical footnote.