Where To Go When

Now that trip-planning season and winter dreaming are intersecting, I want to recommend two big, coffee-table books. You won't be packing them in your suitcase, but perhaps will copy lots of info from them. As you see, I wrote a foreword for the Italian one. It's just a brief note. The real work was not mine!

I hate it when stickers that won't come off are on my books!  Mars the careful cover. Here's Italy. No sticker.

Where To Go When: Italy and Where To Go When: The Americas are both published by DK. They're organized by month, with suggestions for that time of year.  The information is concise and useful, there are great photographs, and the editors have found many surprising or unknown places to lure us. This is a spread on Puglia.

And Panama, a February suggestion, looks good to me.

The Americas book really lures me. There are so many places I have not seen south of the border.  A trip to Central America and Peru remains one of my top travel memories. I've never been to Brazil or Argentina, or so many other places.

These books are magnetic!