There’s an instant shorthand when you mention Bermuda: shorts, golf and the Pink Palace.

That’s fair enough in some ways as the island nation is a prime place to tee off, with seven top-flight courses in just 21 square miles, and the Hamilton Princess remains a plush crash pad. It recently spent $15 million to overhaul its Bermudiana wing, creating larger, family-focused suites.

As for those namesake shorts, they’ve been to blame for men baring their knees for more than a century. Admit it, though — you’re also thinking what Brooklyn-based bar owner St. John Frizell thought before he opened an outpost of his cocktail joint, Sunken Harbor Club, at the luxury resort Cambridge Beaches three years ago: “I’d heard about newlyweds and nearly deads,” he laughs. “But I’m either at the bar, or

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