Reid Bramblett's Guidebooks to Europe, Italy, and New York

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I write travel guidebooks for a living, the practical sort of book filled with hotel and restaurant recommendations, useful information and travel advice, coverage of sights and shopping and museums, and loads of history and art and food and wine and humor and once-in-a-lifetime experiences slipped in between all that hard data. It's a tough job, demanding long hours and an insane amount of research, but it is interesting and oddly fulfilling work. And at least it gets me out of the house, and affords me the opportunity to see a little of the world.
Frommer's Florence Tuscany & Umbria My first book, and still my favorite. Now in its fourth edition, this guide covers Central Italy at its finest, from the Renaissance art and history of Florence to wine tasting in the medieval hilltowns south of Siena, and from Etruscan tombs in the countryside to bucolic farmstays in the Chianti hills. Read more Buy the book		Eyewitness Top Ten Tuscany The top ten of everything in Tuscany—museums and churches, wines and restaurants, sights and scenery, shops and nightlife, hilltowns and beach resorts, hotels and agriturismi. Eyewitness books are packed with photos, maps, and plans to make it easier both to plan your trip and to get around once you're over there. Read more Buy the book
Frommer's Northern Italy This is a first-edition guide to Northern Italy— everything from Milan to Venice, Mont Blanc to the Italian Lakes, and the Riviera to the Adriatic — with the vineyards of Piemonte, ski villages of the Alps and the Dolomites, and hilltowns of Lombardy and the Veneto in between. Read more Buy the book		Europe for Dummies A "Europe 101" handbook to help you get the most out of your trip. The first part deals with the practicalities of planning a trip. The rest is a guide to the top cities and destinations throughout Europe. It was published under a pseudonym (Steven Richards), but rest assured the information is mine. Read more Buy the book
Frommer's Italy from $70 a Day A budget guidebook for everyone from college backpackers to frugal over-fifties. In the second edition fo the guide, I completely rewrote the chapters on Rome, Southern Italy (Naples, Capri, the Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Apulia), and Sicily. For this the third edition, while my colleague Lynn Levine was ably updating those southern sections, I tackled rewriting all of the Central and Northern Italy chapters. Read more Buy the book		Frommer's Memorable Walks in New York This pocket-slim volume of neighborhood walks help you discover how Manhattan is less of a single city and more a patchwork of small, self-contained, unique communities that all just happen to all occupy the same sliver of an island off the New Jersey coast. From the financial District to the Garment District, the Jewish Lower East Side to Harlem, the Big Apple's got something for everyone. Read more Buy the book
Eyewitness Top Ten Milan & the Lakes My latest book, due May 2003, covers cosmopolitan Milan—powerhouse of Italian industry, fashion, and publishing—the Medieval and Renaissance towns of surrounding Lombardy region, and the villa-lined Italian Lakes nestled dramatically into the alpine foothills. Read more Buy the book		Frommer's Portable Florence All of the highlights of the birthplace of the Renaissance—from Michelangelo's David to Ferragamo's flagship, Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Florentine feasts in Tuscan trattorie, art-stuffed churches to medeival alleyways—all in a pocket-sized package. Plus all the usual hotels, restaruant, shops, nightlife, and cafes. Read more Buy the book
Eyewitness Top Ten Rome Cowritten with a most excellent colleague named Jeffrey Kennedy, this guide breaks down the Eternal City's 2,500-year jumble of sights and history into easily digestible lists of the best ruins, museums, churches, monuments, neighborhoods, hotels, trattorie, shops, and after-dark activities. All of it is illustrated by Eyewitness's stellar photography, maps, and plans. Read more Buy the book		Frommer's Europe from $70 a Day Descendant of Arthur Frommer's groundbreaking 1957 Europe on $5 A Day, the original budget travel bible that proved to an entire generation that anyone could afford a trip to Europe. For the current edition, I wrote the planning chapters as well as those on Rome, Venice, and Florence (I did Switzerland, too, but someone else updated it this time around). Read more Buy the book
Honeymoons Vacations for Dummies Planning a wedding can be stressful. PIanning a honeymoon shouldn't be. Though this guide covers all the usual beach and island locations for post-nuptual getaways, I added a section for those who want a bit more Old World romance or cultural experience on tehri honeymoons: a chapter on Paris (actually, there was one on London, too, but it got cut). Read more Buy the book		The Complete Idiots Travel Guide to Planning your Trip to Europe This was my first crack at covering the entire continent (well, 15 major destinations). It lived in all its safety-orange majesty for one glorious edition before the publishing house was sold. Part of the company ended up with the folks who did the Dummies books, so I was able to segue quite nicely into writing Europe for Dummies instead. It's out of print, but where else if not my Web site (and perhaps Half.com) will its existence be ackowledged? [Out of Print]
Art & Architecture Essays I wrote a series of essays on Art & Architecture for the 2002 editions of most of Frommer's major European country and city guides: England, London, France, Paris, Italy, Rome, Germany, and Spain.		Other Guides I've contributed small bits to several other guidebooks over the years, sometimes credited sometimes not. This is a list of my modest contibutions to books written by others. Read more

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