2019-02-01_Lonely_Planet_Traveller

Peter Grunert, group editor

@peter_grunert petervg

FEBRUARY 2019

SUBSCRIBER COVERwalls of the Capela das Almasnear Porto’s main food marketazulejo t les adorn the churchMore than 15 000 painted

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Way ahead of time and with a dash of surprise that I suspect she’d have

appreciated, our director of magazines Sue Coffin recently passed away.

Amid the deep shock and sadness for all of us at Lonely Planet, I paused

to consider how Sue had made the most of her shortened time on Earth.

She adored an imaginative weekend trip, frequently while wearing a T-shirt

with the legend ‘#middleagedwomanontour’ across it. I could scarcely keep up

with the destinations she had been ticking off her bucket list – for that,

I state with no glibness, is precisely what it was. Vilnius, Plovdiv, Marseille,

Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Genoa and Kraków (alongside, at a greater stretch,

Montevideo and Buenos Aires) were all highlights over the past year, variously

involving Depeche Mode, bars and cultural explorations... many photos in

comedy cardboard cut-outs among them. If you’re sensing a link between the

mention of a dearly missed friend and colleague – one who had such a

passion for travelling every spare moment she could – and promoting

the ethos behind our annual 52 Best Weekends Away issue, then I’ll

just say this: Sue, I hope you’re proud of my continuing efforts.

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PHOTOGRAPHS: ADRIENNE PITTS, KULTURPROJEKTE BERLIN/OANA POPA, COURTESY OF COUCOO GRANDS CHÊNES

TheDomLuísIBridgeinPorto,
among our 52 Best Weekends Away
destinations.Right, from top: Berlin’s
BodeMuseumduringthecity’sLong
Night of Museums; a treehouse stay
in the woods outside Paris

editor’s note