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BEHIND THE SCENES

What Team Lonely Planet has been up to this month

Postcards

WHERE YOU’VE BEEN AND WHAT YOU’VE SEEN

This month: Once in a lifetime

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Globetrotter

A WORLD OF TRAVEL NEWS AND DISCOVERIES

WALK ON THE Wildside

Not many things compare to the thrill of seeing Africa’s Big Five in the wild. But if you want to be in with a chance of tracking them all down, you need to enlist the experts. Try one of these itineraries, each designed to get you up close and personal with one of nature’s giants

Easy Trips

THIS MONTH... escape to the Hebrides, discover New York’s latest hangout, find sun in Puerto Rico, go walking in Croatia and make a break for Buckinghamshire

Outer this world

Only an hour’s flight from Glasgow, the Isle of Harris

New views from Brooklyn

Red Hook is a New York neighbourhood on the up

Court in a time warp

Out-of-season Devon is an enchanting place, with mists swirling, and

Walk the Dalmatian

The Adriatic coastline of Croatia is contorted into so many

AMERICA IN PRINT

Charting six decades of US culture is the latest challenge

Blue sky thinking

For anyone craving a blissful tropical beach as spring showers

The Mash Inn

Word is spreading fast about the Mash Inn, a pub

Great Escape Plan your trip

It’s trip-of-a-lifetime stuff with our itinerary to this wildlife-rich island in the Indian Ocean. Meet your first lemurs at Kirindy, before driving along baobab-lined roads to the rock pinnacles of Tsingy. Next head east, for even closer encounters with creatures in Andasibe and a boat trip along the Pangalanes Canal

PARIS ON FILM

Cinema was born in the French capital when Auguste and Louis Lumière screened their first short film here in 1895. The city feels like one giant, ageless movie set, its doors permanently open: the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame are silver-screen stars as surely as Gérard Depardieu or Catherine Deneuve. Follow in the footsteps of giants with our tour of film locations haunted by Paris’s silver-screen residents and visitors, from Amélie to 007

100 ISSUES IN THE MAKING

The Lonely Planet Traveller team’s most memorable experiences creating the magazine

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’

IT’S BEEN 50 YEARS SINCE THE SUMMER OF LOVE PUT SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SPOTLIGHT. BUT FROM ORGANIC FARMERS’ MARKETS TO OPEN-AIR STREET PARTIES, AND A STORE WHERE EVERYTHING IS FREE, THE LEGACY OF THOSE GOLDEN DAYS STILL LIVES ON ACROSS THE BAY AREA

SAUDADE

[noun] a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese temperament Oxford English Dictionary

Heaven-sent

From 2000 to 2013 I lived in Mongolia, first as

Cinematic London

It’s not just Paris that basks in the silver-screen glow (see p54) – London’s streets are film-crew favourites and many cinemas in the capital are sights in their own right

Baltic Coast Germany

White sands and crisp sea wash the fabled heritage towns and resorts of Germany’s northeasterly coastline – surely one of Europe’s better-kept secrets

Weekend in Turin

A bastion of Slow Food, historical home of the Fiat and Italy’s inaugural (if short-lived) capital: Turin is an underrated delight for weekending culture cravers and food lovers

Outdoors in the Peloponnese

Within easy reach of Athens, this Greek peninsula is rich in ancient sites and shaped by a gorgeous topography of lofty mountains, vast gorges and sandy beaches

World food in Toronto

Eating out in this Canadian metropolis is a delight, as flavours, aromas, sights and sounds of almost every nation converge peacefully – particularly on the plate

Budget Shanghai

China’s capital of colonial history and glamour is known for its flash architecture and ritzy bars and restaurants, but many of its highlights are actually cheap or free