The results were compiled after questionnaires, inserted in the magazine and posted online, were returned by readers who rated foreign islands on six criteria: scenery, beaches, value for money, food, places to stay and the local people.
A place where you can make next-level bad decisions, think about them in mesmerizing scenery, and experience a foreign culture without flying more than a few hours.
The flat country features are distinctly Flemish, unlike in most of Bruegel's landscapes, in which he introduced foreign elements such as mountain ranges even into local scenery.
By the 1980s in the Iraq of Saddam Hussein, foreign businesses, schools and organizations had almost disappeared from the local scenery, apart from a small diplomatic corps.
Tight bank regulations still make it hard for some to buy, further slowing the recovery, he added, but the picturesque scenery in the Winelands area near Cape Town and its good schools are major selling points for foreign buyers.
"Of course, we care about Kyoto's scenery and will work to preserve it," Keiji Yamada, governor of Kyoto Prefecture, told a group of visiting foreign reporters earlier this year.
The scenery, which it appears came from Turin, pleased one in a negative sort of way by showing that some foreign theatres can still occasionally produce something quite as dowdy as the average staging one is accustomed to at Covent Garden.
Foreign, foreign, foreign.
And scenery costs nothing.
