When travel writer Annie Fitzsimmons lands in a city, she likes to visit dog parks, libraries, and grocery stores and climb to the highest perch she can find. It’s this emphasis on finding the places locals love that helps make “World’s Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Destinations” (National Geographic) much more than a coffee-table book with pretty pictures. As Fitzsimmons, National Geographic Travel’s Urban Insider columnist and blogger, writes in the foreword, browsing through the book is like having coffee with a friend — be it the mayor of Rome or a world famous chef in Tokyo — dishing about his home city.
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