Frommer's Italian Islands, 1st Edition
by Sylvie Hogg
About the Author
Sylvie Hogg has been collecting and sharing the best travel experiences in Italy for more than a decade. She is the author of Frommer's Italy Day by Day and Frommer's Rome Day by Day and has contributed to numerous other print and online publications about Rome and Italy, including MTV Italy, for which she received in 2007 the Society of American Travel Writer's Lowell Thomas Award. Working as a tour guide in Rome through much of her twenties, she developed an addiction to Italy's well-known history and culture and spent many a weekend exploring the country's best-kept secrets, its fabulous islands. Sylvie now lives in Kansas City, where she writes ( Food Lovers' Guide to Kansas City ), teaches Italian, and is a travel consultant. Her trusty research assistants, her husband and young son, have also logged many nautical miles on ferries and hydrofoils around the islands of Italy.
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List of Maps
Italy in 1 & 2 Weeks
Sicily in 10 Days
Bay of Naples Islands
Capri
Ischia
Pontine Islands
Ponza
Tuscan Islands
Elba
Giglio
Tremiti Islands
Sicily
Palermo
Taormina
Siracusa
Sicilian Islands
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Aeolians
Egadi Islands
Sardinia
Costa Smerelda & La Maddalena
Alghero
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overrated places or experiences not worth your time or money
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