GREAT ESCAPES

ENJOY THE WORLD AT YOUR LEISURE

IST EDITION

Published June 2015

Publishing Director Piers Pickard

Publisher Ben Handicott

Commissioning Editor Robin Barton

Written by Ann Abel, Kate Armstrong, Brett Atkinson, Andrew Bain, Sarah Barrell, Robin Barton, Sarah Baxter, Oliver Bennett, Joe Bindloss, Abigail Blasi, Catherine Bodry, Gemma Bowes, Celeste Brash, Cameron Bruhn, Austin Bush, Garth Cartwright, Nate Cavalieri, Kerry Christiani, Sophie Davies, Emilie Filou, Drew Gardam, Will Gourlay, Ben Groundwater, Roz Hopkins, Juliet Kinsman (editor-in-chief, Mr & Mrs Smith), Kim Laidlaw, Sarah Lewis, Emily Matchar, Lindsey Millar, Anja Mutic, Genevieve Paiement, Stephanie Pearson, Helen Ranger, Tim Richards, Sophy Roberts, Brendan Sainsbury, Daniel Savery Raz, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Oliver Smith, Matt Swaine, Nick Trend, Mara Vorhees, Luke Waterson, Penny Watson

Editors Elizabeth Jones, Ali Lemer, Gabrielle Stefanos

Layout Designers Katherine Marsh, Joseph Spanti

Series Designer & Cover Mark Adams

Image Research Rebecca Skinner

Pre-Press Production Ryan Evans

Mapping Wayne Murphy

eBook Production Craig Kilburn

Thanks Helvi Cranfield, Larissa Frost, Chris Girdler, Will Gourlay, Jane Hart, Karyn Noble, Florian Poppe

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FRONT & Back COVER IMAGES Front (top) Rome, Italy (fotoVoyager/Getty Images); (bottom) British Virgin Islands (M. Dillon/Corbis) Back Québec City, Canada (Alan Copson/Corbis); prayer wheels, Bhutan (Kurt Werby/Corbis); lei, Hawaii (NJOSEPHOTO/Alamy)