From the Jul/Aug 2009 Issue

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Thin-crust pizza at Gilt

New York’s Best Affordable Restaurants

Under-the-Radar Central American Destinations

Forget the extravagantly priced Caribbean. Departures shares tips on where to stay and eat in four of the region’s under-the-radar locales. Read More

Necessary Luxury: 7 Great Beach Books

Canon PowerShot G10

How to Pick the Best Camera

From the Serengeti Plain to the Great Wall of China, pros pick the best camera—and lenses, computer, tripod, and other gadgets—for the job. Read More
The inn’s 12 horses have free run of the property’s corrals

Texas Weekend Getaway: The Inn at Dos Brisas

A much acclaimed inn and restaurant just outside Houston brings its table to the organic farm. Is it worth all the hype? Read More
Buying Propaganda Art in Shanghai

Buying Propaganda Art in Shanghai

The Shoe Lounge at TopShop

Top Affordable Shops in New York City

Bartender Shinobu Ishigaki carefully assembles his Claudia cocktail at Tokyo’s Bar Ishinohana

Tokyo’s Hidden Cocktail Bars

Old-school cocktails, stirred and shaken—and rethought, reworked, and remixed—for new age imbibers, are all the rage. Read More
The youngest duke in Britain, runs Inveraray Castle in Scotland.

Reinventing England’s Manor Houses

How savvy young 21st-century entrepreneurs are opening wide the doors of those once staid and stately homes of England. Read More
The bar at Pontus! serves lunch by day and cocktails, sushi, and dim sum at night.

Stockholm’s Hot New Restaurants

A new crop of chefs is reinventing local cuisine in the Swedish capital. Read More
Tobiano Golf Club’s ninth hole, overlooking Lake Kamloops

Golfing in British Columbia

East of Vancouver, the Okanagan Valley has spectacular scenery, ice wines, and world-class golf. Departures maps out the perfect four-day weekend. Read More
At the Dolder Grand Spa, guests can lie in Japanese style tubs called sunaburos surrounded by warmed pebbles.

10 New Reasons to Love Switzerland Now

From Zurich to Geneva to Bern—and places in between—Departures goes in search of the new Swiss cool. Read More

California’s Italian Renaissance

Along a three-mile stretch of Newport Coast is the Resort at Pelican Hill, an extravagant haven-cum-hotel that combines haute California style with, yes, more than a little Tuscan flavor. Read More

London’s School of Life

Equal parts self-help, continuing ed, and highbrow social mixer, the School of Life is an idiosyncratic temple of the mind. Read More
The Molelo Suite's eclectically decorated study

South Africa’s Newest Safari Lodge

A new design-savvy safari lodge opens in a far-flung sub-Saharan locale Read More
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Boating off Sicily’s Aeolian Islands

Our intrepid couple finds serenity on a yacht off the coast of Sicily. Read More
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Josephine Baker’s French Château

Long before Mia, Madonna, and Angelina, Josephine Baker was the ultimate celebrity serial adopter, creating an idealistic—and eccentric—home for a dozen children at her beloved French château. Read More
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5 Must-Stay New York City Hotels

Vail’s International Dance Festival

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