Explore The Med's Hidden Treasures this summer with Frommer's 3 new With Your Family titles
To be published by Wiley - April 2008
From a café in Vieux Nice running pottery workshops for children to an ice cream stop in Umbria offering the best gelato in the unlikeliest of spots, discover the Mediterranean’s best-kept secrets this summer with Frommer’s three new With Your Family guides to the region. The new Tuscany & Umbria With Your Family, Greek Islands With Your Family, and Provence & the Cote d’Azur With Your Family are exciting additions to this innovative collection of guidebooks showing the growing vogue of UK families to tailor-make their holidays and explore destinations the way locals do.
Written by British authors, the new guidebooks understand the needs of UK families and present in-depth and up to date information on the best family-friendly accommodation, dining, attractions, events and unknown treasures. The Frommer’s With Your Family titles provide lots of images and unique insider tips, ‘finds’ and fun facts known only to locals, giving indispensable insights into the region. Indulge in Greek specialities at the Skeloydi Taverna in Corfu overlooking the famous Theotokou Monastery – it has one of the most spectacular settings of any taverna on the island – or head to Loutra Edipsou beach in Evia where all the Greek holidaymakers take their kids – it is long famous for its healing spa waters.
What’s more, all advice and activities are tried and tested to ensure a fun and stress-free family holiday. Places that are likely to disappoint in terms of time and money are labelled ‘overrated’ such as the hugely advertised Acqua Village waterpark in Central Tuscany described as tatty, whilst great ‘value’ things to do are also emphasised.
The guides further highlight the importance of sustainability and the environment by providing the top family wildlife experiences and including ‘green’ accommodation and attractions such as an eco-friendly tree-house style B&B and children’s paradise in Provence.
The With Your Family range features a handy introductory chapter dedicated to Family Highlights giving a brief insight into how best to go about planning your trip. Being aimed exclusively at young families, the pages are packed with useful information not found in the usual guidebooks including recommended ages for attractions and advice on baby services and child-friendly policies.
Donald Strachan (Tuscany & Umbria With Your Family)is a London-based writer, editor and copywriter. He is the co-author of Frommer’s The Balearics With Your Family. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph, the Observer, the Independent on Sunday, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among others. Stephen Keeling was a financial journalist who lived and worked in Asia for almost a decade. He is the author of the first ever Rough Guide to Taiwan (forthcoming, April 2007). He co-wrote the new editions of The Rough Guide to Mexico (forthcoming, July 2007) and The Rough Guide to Spain (forthcoming, February 2007). He currently lives in New York City.
Lead author Louise Padley is a freelance travel writer and photographer who lives in Grasse, Provence with her family. She is a Cambridge graduate in French & Spanish. She began her career in travel marketing where she worked for significant London PR firms including Brighter PR and Marketeer with accounts including LA CVB, Cadogan Holidays, Cosmos and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Robin Gauldie is the author of more than 20 guidebooks to destinations around the world, including France. Victoria Trott studied French and Spanish at the universities of Leeds, Lyon and Granada, having spent her gap year in the Camargue. She has travelled extensively in France.
Jos Simon (Greek Islands With Your Family) is the author of Frommer’s Croatia With Your Family. An ex-head teacher of History and English he became a freelance journalist and photographer in 1999 writing for the Guardian. He is married to a Greek Cypriot, with family in Athens and in northern Epiros, and is now the principal travel writer for Greece Magazine, with at least one article in every edition. He lives in South Yorkshire with his family.
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Frommer’s Tuscany & Umbria With Your Family by Donald Strachan 9780470519950 £12.99 Paperback
Frommer’s Greek Islands With Your Family by Jos Simon 9780470518618 £12.99 Paperback
Frommer’s Provence & the Cote d’Azur With Your Family by Vicki Trott and Louise Simpson 9780470723142 £12.99 Paperback
