laid-back

Visit laid-back mansions or an icon’s personal gallery, or marvel at the region’s natural landscapes and glamorous history.

If you are, or have in your life, a Johnny Carson fan, you know what I’m talking about: the formidable list of attributes that set him apart — the suits, the laid-back stance, the endlessly bobbing pencil, the lethal one-liners and raised eye-brow sangfroid that could dissolve into helpless laughter.

Cavalariça Lisboa - Dim and romantic, Cavalariça Lisboa exudes a charming, laid-back vibe that’s far from stuffy.

The tune was the slinking “Be Cool,” its message a bit of laid-back life-coaching: “Charm ’em / Don’t alarm ’em,” Mitchell sang, her long hair in two pigtails beneath a jaunty beret, eyes twinkling behind a stylish pair of tinted glasses.

Although gulls are associated with annoying behaviors, they’re also synonymous with laid-back coastal communities and beach vacations.