If you like digging deeper, going way beyond facts and figures,and avoiding tourist traps, then you'll adore Corinna Cooke's fascinating journey down thenarrow streets and canals. I loved the idea that my readers could download my book to their Kindle app and have me there to help them wherever they were, via their phone, their tablet or whichever device was with them.

When I ask them what they did there it is always the same story – they only went to the most overcrowded tourist sites and ate at awful tourist restaurants adjacent to these places, so their experience was of an overcrowded city with expensive bad food!This time we take a deep dive into one of the most touristed cities in the world and discover how most tourists don’t see, taste or experience even 10% of what this magnificent, truly unique city offers. When I ask them if they went to various incredible places just blocks from these sites they just look at me blankly. If you have been wanting to go to Italy but don’t know where to start planning a trip, this book is for you. Unlike most countries, with Italy the more new places you stumble upon the more you realize you’ve barely skimmed the tip of the iceberg. Florence is a really small city, so with only a couple of exceptions nothing in this book is more than a 20 minute walk from the heart of the historic center, and most places I take you to are within a couple of blocks of where you will already be anyway.

This book, as well as the authors other books, provide everything I wanted but never gotten from travel books. Deliveries to destinations outside Australia are made by DHL courier, and cannot be made to post office boxes. After hearing my opinion, she would rebut, “Yeah, okay, but surely Constantine was better…” And one round of spritz segues into a second. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Fabulous Thing To Do in Florence (Insider Secrets To The Renaissance City) is both a love letter to Florence and a travel guide introducing you to some of the under-the-radar places the tourists miss out on. Originally from New Zealand, Corinna has lived around the world, and now splits her time between Italy and the United States. This eBook can be accessed through the free Dymocks eReader app, ( iOS, Android, Windows), or downloaded via Adobe Digital Editions (and other .

The author answers so many questions a first time Italy traveler might have and does it in a friendly personal way. My one stipulation was that I wanted to be able to sit on my balcony and have a view of the ocean, and be able to hear the waves as I fell asleep at night. As someone who has traveled a fair amount, I wasn’t sure how much I would learn from reading Corinna’s first book. I devoured this book cover to cover, and now I'm going back to the beginning to read it a second time with a highlighter and Post-it tabs. She has excellent strategies, and in less than 2 months I now have enough travel points for my flight.

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Whether you plan to travel in style or on a shoestring budget, you’ll discover hidden gems and little-known advice for touring Italy’s most famous attractions. I go into depth on things you may not otherwise have thought about, from what to wear on a long-haul flight, to what you must have in your carry-on bag (you might be surprised), to avoiding, minimizing, or if the worst happens dealing with jetlag.Corinna Cooke is an International Makeup Artist, Beauty Editor, and private tour guide who is in love with Italy and all things Italian.