Frommer's Northern Italy with Venice & the Lakes [Paperback]

Reid Bramblett (Author)

Book Description

Series: Frommer's Complete Guides | Publication Date: April 24, 2002

You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go -- they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!

Frommer's Northern Italy is the premier guide to the region, with complete coverage of Venice, the Dolomites and South Tirol, Milan and Lombardy, Liguria and the Italian Riviera, and more. You'll get candid reviews of the best hotels, restaurants, and nightlife, as well as the author's picks for the best travel experiences, including: cruising the brenta canal; driving the great dolomite road; riding the cable cars over mont blanc; hiking the cinque terre; taking in the art at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan; partying at the spring Carnevale in Venice; and more.

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About the Author

Reid Bramblett learned Italian on the playground of a Roman parochial school when he was 12, explored Italy with his parents for two years in a hippie-orange VW camper, and spent a year studying there during a break from the anthropology department at Cornell. After a stint in Frommer's editorial offices, Reid vaulted over the desk to write Frommer's first guide to Tuscany and Umbria and hasn't stopped exploring, learning, interviewing, taking notes, and reporting it all in guidebooks since. He has also written Frommer's Memorable Walks in New York, is a co-author of Frommer's Italy from $70 a Day, and contributes to Frommer's Europe and Frommer's Europe from $70 a Day. When not on the road, he lives in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 482 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 1 edition (April 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764562932
• ISBN-13: 978-0764562938
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,743,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Reid Bramblett spent his adolescence living in Italy, which later served him well in writing ten guidebooks and contributing to more than two-dozen others (and launching ReidsItaly.com). He is a Contributing Editor Condè Nast's Concierge.com and to Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine, where he was formerly Associate Editor. As a daily travel reporter for MSNBC.com he won two Lowell Thomas awards. His award-winning ReidsGuides.com trip planning site has been recommended by CNN, USA Today, SmartMoney, and National Geographic Traveler, and was proclaimed "Among the best" by Arthur Frommer. His old weekly adventure column in the Chicago Daily Herald, "The Intrepid Traveler," has been revived at TheIntrepidTraveler.net. His articles have appeared in Newsweek, The Miami Herald, The Dallas Morning News, the St. Petersburg Times, Modern Bride, and on CNN.com. He has served as a travel expert on CNN, Fox NEWS, CNNfn, and the New York City affiliates of ABC, Fox, and UPN, as well as on various NPR stations and as an occasional guest host of "The Travel Show" on WOR710am.

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Despite their reputation, this volume didn't do the trick..., February 10, 2005

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Nelson Aspen "Author/Journalist" (Los Angeles & NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frommer's Northern Italy: including Venice, Milan & the Lakes (Paperback)

I'm in the advanced planning stages for my trip to Northern Italy and I was hoping this edition would provide useful information and insight for me. Unfortunately, for all its listings, this book is remarkable in its LACK of detail. It might come in somewhat handy once you're ON the trip, but does little to help you prepare for it.

Also, in trying to cover such vast regions of the area, the individual cities and villages are under reported.