Peter Barron - Frommers Spain

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Frommers Spain, 21st edition

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

After careers at the BBC and Google, Peter Barron turned his attention to restoring a barn at his finca on the border between Andaluca and Extremadura. He has been visiting Spain for more than 30 years and loves flamenco guitar, iberico ham, and manzanilla. He divides his time between Spain and London.

Jennifer Ceaser is a freelance writer and editor who has specialized in travel journalism for two decades. A former New Yorker and staff editor at the New York Post, Jennifer now splits her time between Berlin and Barcelona. She contributes to a variety of publications, including Conde Nast Traveler, AFAR, New York Magazine, BBC, Time Out, Coastal Living, and Wine Enthusiast.

Patricia Harris and David Lyon drove almost every twisting mountain road as they researched four previous Frommers guidebooks about Spain. Founders of HungryTravelers.com, they have a deep appreciation for the perfect codfish croqueta, an honest plate of patatas bravas, or a heap of garlic shrimp. They write about travel, food, wine, spirits, and contemporary art for a range of U.S., Canadian, and British journals. When not on the road, they reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their kitchen is well stocked with saffron from Consuegra, smoked paprika from Extremadura, chorizo from Castilla y Len, and a Valencian paella pan to bring them all together.

Trained in Florence, at NYUs Institute of Fine Arts, and at the Harvard University Art Museums in art history and art conservation, Will Shank has preserved priceless paintings (Frida Kahlo in Mexico, Salvador Dal in Madrid) in some of the worlds finest museums. In 2000, he decided that working 9-to-5 was not for him, and since leaving his day job at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, he has been spotted climbing scaffolding in such places as Pisa, Paris, and Amsterdam, where he has restored aging murals of the American pop artist Keith Haring. Despite his passion for high culture, he is consistently unable to convince his teenage daughter, Stassa, to set foot into an art museum. Will and his husband, artist U. B. Morgan, who emigrated to Spain from the Bay Area in 2006, own a historic home in Barcelonas Gothic Quarter and a terraced vineyard in the cava country of Catalunya, where their rural activities are dictated by the harvests of the grapes, the olives, and a large field of lavender. In the past few decades, Will has shared his deep knowledge of art in such publications as Londons The Art Newspaper and various travel guides. He has written about LGBT issues for The Advocate and Towleroad and about preservation topics for San Francisco Magazine and Preservation. Formerly a film critic for the Bay Area Reporter and frequently an art critic for Barcelonas English-language Metropolitan, Will finds that he enjoys writing about food and wine as much as he does about culture. He is co-author, with Jim van Buskirk, of Celluloid San Francisco, an armchair travel guide to movie locations in the Bay Area.

A proud Scotsman, Murray Stewart is an award-winning travel writer who has written, co-authored, and updated several travel guidebooks over the last decade. Prior to 2009, he enjoyed a career in corporate restructuring, shutting factories, putting people out of work, and generally spreading mirth and joy across the world of big business. During this time, he received a parliamentary commendation for rescuing a pea-processing factory in the east of England. His traveling has taken him to more than 60 countries, including periods of teaching English in Chile and Mexico as well as corporate consultancy assignments in Spain and Bulgaria. In 2016, his Basque Country and Navarre first edition won the British Guild of Travel Writers Award for Best Travel Guidebook. A part-time pilgrim, he has walked four routes of the Camino de Santiago pilgrims route, including the 1,000 miles from Le Puy-en-Velay in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, raising thousands of pounds for charity in the process. In his downtime, he keeps fit by swimming and cycling and enjoys the pursuit of lost causessuch as supporting Scotlands national rugby team. He resides in Amersham.