Baldwin - Frommers Italy 2016

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE

The world is a dynamic place. Hotels change ownership, restaurants hike their prices, museums alter their opening hours, and busses and trains change their routings. And all of this can occur in the several months after our authors have visited, inspected, and written about, these hotels, restaurants, museums and transportation services. Though we have made valiant efforts to keep all our information fresh and up-to-date, some few changes can inevitably occur in the periods before a revised edition of this guidebook is published. So please bear with us if a tiny number of the details in this book have changed. Please also note that we have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy or errors or omissions, or for inconvenience, loss, damage, or expenses suffered by anyone as a result of assertions in this guide.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Eleonora Baldwin is a food and lifestyle writer, journalist, prolific blogger, and Italian culinary/travel show host who lives in Rome and provides insider knowledge on the Eternal Citys dining scene, as well as small-group private culinary adventures in Italy. She is the author, editor, and photographer of popular blogs Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (aglioolioepeperoncino.com), Rome City Guide for Kids (lolamamma.wordpress.com), and Roma Every Day (romatuttigg.blogspot.it). She has written, edited, and contributed to numerous travel and lifestyle publications, and her writing appears regularly in several online food columns.

Stephen Brewer has been savoring Italian pleasures ever since he sipped his first cappuccino while a student in Rome many, many years ago (togas had just gone out of fashion). He has written about Italy for many magazines and guidebooks and remains transported in equal measure by Bolognese cooking, Tuscan hillsides, the Bay of Naples, and the streets of Palermo.

Stephen Keeling has been traveling to Italy since 1985 and covering his favorite nation for Frommer's since 2007. He is co-author of the award-winning Frommer's family travel guide to Tuscany & Umbria, and has researched numerous travel books in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Stephen lives in New York City.

Megan McCaffrey-Guerrera's love affair with Italy began on her first visit at age 13. After a couple of decades and over a dozen trips to Italy, Megan made the move in 2003, making roots in the seaside village of Lerici on the Italian Riviera. She owns and operates, along with her Italian husband, Luigi, a boutique travel company specializing in customized trips all over Italy and the Mediterranean (www.bellavitaitalia.com). In addition to trip planning, Megan writes about Italy for several travel websites and travel guides, and in 2012 received her Travel Associate certification from the prestigious Travel Institute. Off-duty favorite activities include cooking up a storm to satisfy the household black hole (Luigi), learning to be a good mamma to baby Pietro, yoga, and Mediterranean swims.

Michelle Schoenung is an American journalist and translator in Milan who relocated to the Belpaese in 2000 for what was to be a yearlong adventure. Fifteen years on, she is pleased that Milan has evolved into a much more international and cosmopolitan city and has shed its image of merely being a foggy northern Italian business hub. Her writings and translations have appeared in magazines and books in the United States and Italy. In her free time, she likes to read, run, travel, cook and explore the city with her two rambunctious Italian-American sons.

Donald Strachan is a travel journalist who has written about Italy for publications worldwide, including "National Geographic Traveler," "The Guardian," "Sunday Telegraph," CNN.com, and many others. He has also written several Italy guidebooks for Frommer's, including "Frommer's EasyGuide to Rome, Florence, and Venice." For more, see www.donaldstrachan.com.