I almost forgot to tell you… as my regular Cool Travel Guide readers know, we spent a lot of time in Italy last year researching and photographing first editions of new travel guidebooks, starting with a month in Calabria, then a month in Milan, followed by more than a month in the Italian Lakes region … Read more about Our Italy books hit the shelves!
We were surprised during our recent research trip in Italy to find that after Venice and Rome the country’s next most popular travel destination seemed to be Sirmione, a small walled town on a tiny peninsula, accessed by a drawbridge across the moat of a castle on gorgeous Lake Garda. It’s a place you rarely … Read more about The Cool Travel Guide to the Italian Lakes
We’ve been on the road in Northern Italy for a couple of weeks doing guidebook research and we’re both utterly exhausted and yet completely stimulated. How can we not be inspired in a country like Italy where we’re surrounded with such history and culture, art and architecture? Wherever we drive, it’s not long before we … Read more about Inspiring Italy and The Grand Tour
After a few days regrouping (oh, and researching of course) in Turin, we’re hitting the road again this week in Northern Italy, to explore the country’s beautiful lakes, mountains, valleys, and vineyards, as part of our guidebook research. While we’re staying in some exquisite hotels, unfortunately they don’t always have great internet access – even … Read more about On the road again… in Northern Italy