Frommer's The Balearics With Your Family: The Best of Mallorca,

Let Frommer's show you where your family can:

• Find a secluded cove with pure crystal waters
• Spot fairies and witches in underground caves
• Visit famous art works by Picasso and Miró
• Discover the demons and ghouls of Mallorca
• Visit the spooky dungeons of a fortress
• Enjoy underwater fireworks and lively fiestas
• Watch bubbles blown from molten glass

Put the Fun Back into Family Holidays

With your family has all the inside knowledge and advice for a trouble-free holiday full of fabulous memories for all the family.

Discover a destination with:

• Child-friendly sandy beaches

• Cobble-stoned hill towns and whitewashed villages

• Unspoilt landscapes to explore on bike or foot

• A fascinating cultural heritage

• Endless adventures above, on, and below the water

• Family accommodation and dining to suit every budget

Let Frommer's show you where your family can:

• Find a secluded cove with pure crystal waters

• Spot fairies and witches in underground caves

• Visit famous art works by Picasso and Miró

• Discover the demons and ghouls of Mallorca

• Visit the spooky dungeons of a fortress

• Enjoy underwater fireworks and lively fiestas

• Watch bubbles blown from molten glass

Frommer's. The best trips start here. Visit us online at Frommers.com

Alex Leith is a freelance writer, who has contributed regularly in recent years to the Independent and Independent on Sunday travel sections, as well as numerous other national newspapers. He is the author of football/travel book El Becks – A Season in the Sun. Having lived for two long spells in Barcelona, Spain, he currently resides in his home town of Lewes, East Sussex, where among other things, he edits cutting-edge magazine www.vivalewes.com.

Georgina Bromwich is a geography graduate from Jesus College, Cambridge University. Georgina Bromwich has travelled extensively for work, study and pleasure. Having spent much time in Latin America, on mainland Spain and island hopping between the Balearics, she worked in publishing in the UK before finally moving abroad. She currently lives in Menorca with her husband and baby son, where she contributes to several travel and lifestyle magazines and writes for the local press.

Donald Strachan is a London-based writer, editor and copywriter. He has written about travel to European destinations for the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday, the Sydney Morning Herald and Zest magazine. He lives in Hackney with his partner and two young daughters.

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Frommer's Northern Italy with Your Family (Frommers With Your Family

Let Frommer's show you where your family can:

• Ride a gondola
• Have a splash with the dolphins
• Go on safari and spot a red panda
• Take a cable car to the peak of the mountains
• Meet a mysterious mummy
• Look inside the mind of da Vinci
• Glam up for a masked ball

"...there's no better resource for vacationing in Italy" (ABTA Magazine, July 2007)

“…has truly family-friendly sections on eating, accommodation, activities, events and more.” (Best, Thursday 4th March 2008)

Discover a destination with:

• A chic and vibrant style

• The best gelati in the world

• A love of al fresco dining and child-friendly menus

• Breath-taking churches and historical sites

• Art and culture to enthral all the family

• Stunning mountain ranges and skiing

Let Frommer's show you where your family can:

• Ride a gondola

• Have a splash with the dolphins

• Go on safari and spot a red panda

• Take a cable car to the peak of the mountains

• Meet a mysterious mummy

• Look inside the mind of da Vinci

• Glam up for a masked ball

Nick Bruno is a freelance travel writer and journalist from North London. He has lived in Naples and Venice and spends lots of time in Italy visiting family and friends. After working as a tour guide, a translator and for an outdoor outfitter, peddling haversacks and breathable base layers to the masses, he swapped life in The Smoke for sunny Dundee and the love of a bad woman.

Shona Main grew up in Shetland and, after moving to the mainland, spent her most informative years working on magazines for teenagers. Following short-lived and rather un-momentous careers in law and politics, she met Nick and returned to writing. She now lives a double life as social work lobbyist by day and contributor to newspapers and books by night. Both love to get away almost as much as they love to come back.

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Frommer's Brittany With Your Family (Frommers With Your Family Series)

Brittany With Your Family is a full-colour, practical and accessible book for independently minded UK families looking to make the most of their family holiday. The guide highlights the best opportunities for families in the region and offers expert opinion on where to stay, where to eat and where to spend your holiday time enjoyably.

• Includes: Family Highlights, Best Animal Parks, Best Beaches, Best Castles & Museums, Best Markets & Shops, Best Indoor & Outdoor Activities
• Details how to plan a trip a family trip to Brittany with all the practical advice you need to know.
• Includes sections on Child-Friendly Events & Festivals, Markets, Family-friendly accommodation and family-friendly dining.
• The guide covers: Ille-et-Vilane, Cotes d'Armor, Finistere, Morbihan and the best villages, towns & cities within these areas such as Rennes, St-Malo, Mont-St-Michel, Dinan, Brest, Carnac among others.

Great Family Trips You'll Remember Forever

At last, a travel guide for families that tells you how it reallyis. See the best of everything, with expert advice from mums and dads that will give you the confidence to organise a fun and inspired trip.

With Your Family has the inside knowledge for trouble-free breaks, full of memories to last a lifetime.

• Discover magical Arthurian myths and legends

• Become a lighthouse keeper for the day

• Enjoy life on a Breton farm and see lots of animals

• Take an acrobatic, tree-top route through a forest

• Plus: the best attractions, food & drink and accommodation

• Also: lots of evocative photos and regional maps

Frommer's. The best trips start here. Visit us online at Frommers.com

Rhonda Carrier (Brittany, France and Manchester, UK) was born in the Midlands but spent much of her teens wandering and lived in Hong Kong and Vienna before studying languages and literature at Cambridge and the Sorbonne in Paris. During the 1990s she lived in London where she worked as a writer and editor for local guides and listings magazines, as well as publishing some award-winning short fiction. Since meeting her husband, the writer Conrad Williams, she has divided her time between Manchester in the UK and a crumbling old cognac farm in France, accompanied by their sons Ethan and Ripley.

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Frommer's The Algarve With Your Family: The Best of Portugal's

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"...an indispensable guide for families travelling to Portugal's south coast."  (Travel Trade Gazette, Friday 18th January 2008)

Put the Fun Back into Family Holidays

With your family has all the inside knowledge and advice for a trouble-free holiday full of fabulous memories for all the family.

Discover a destination with:

• Warm, inviting weather all year round
• Child-friendly, sandy beaches and coves
• Cobbled medieval towns and lively fishing villages
• Historic castles and fortresses to explore
• Impressive local food markets and buzzing street-scenes
• Family accommodation and dining to suit every budget

Let Frommer's show you where your family can:

• Learn to surf, sail or kite-board with the pros
• See a web-footed Portuguese water dog
• Discover a traffic-free, idyllic castaway island
• Visit a spooky chapel of ancient skulls
• Stay overnight in a real castle with turrets
• Find the best spot for a beach picnic

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Robin Gauldie began travelling in the early 1970s and has never stopped. He first visited the Algarve and the Alentejo in 1972 and has returned many times since. When not travelling, he divides his time between a home in Edinburgh and a very ramshackle village house in southern France. He has been a full-time travel journalist since 1979.

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By K. V. A. Iyer
I bought Frommer's `The Algarve with your Family' after having finalised my travel plan to Algarve region of Portugal lest I may miss out something unique.

For three days during August 2009 I did carriage driving through dirt tracks of the rolling hills of Espinhaçao do Câo in the border of Lagos and Aljesur - where Mr. David Fry and his son Manny, who are accomplished horsemen, provide excellent facilities for horseback riding and carriage driving. The horses are happy and looked after well in their 50 acre property, which was formerly a hill farm. This is a family friendly facility having level headed horses that are friendly even to beginners.

I do not find any mention of this facility in the book. It would be good to include the details - available at [...]

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overrated
By Beth
We just returned from a week in Algarve and piurchased this book, hoping the "local scoop" would help us find the true jewels. Not so much. Though some of this travel book is done well, we found it to be quite overrated with the "sites"... making a simple site out to be much more than it really was. For example, the Portugese water dogs at the Rio de Formose Natural Preserve were talked up quite highly. We were quite surprised with how simple the entire "preserve" was- thre was only one water dog to look at and honestly, it wasn't that exciting or impressive... sorry folks. The sites that are listed don't have good (or any at times) directions to them, which would have been quite helpful for us.

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