Interview with Pauline Frommer
Nomadic Matt :. Many children dial the opposite of their parents' interest, but your father's love embraced to travel. Is there a moment in your life where you travel thought is everything you wanted to do
Pauline Frommer: I'm not sure if it is true that the children usually in the opposite direction to go to their parents. I'm probably in the majority following in my parents' footsteps. I started with them on the go, when I was 4 months old, and have several months a year on the road since then, so these nomadic lifestyle seems quite normal for me.
But neither my parents ever thought of "spent traveling is all (they) I." and we do not enjoy traveling and hope to do something good with our lives by promoting understanding between cultures through travel (wanted to do so and large by ferreting travel bargains, a wider demographic travel). But I have many, many other interests in my life that inform my travel writing and editing.
What it's like to work with your father?
My father is a brilliant writer and thinker, and I learn something new from him every day. He's still incredibly productive, writing two syndicated columns a week, countless blogs for Frommers.com and appear on the radio with me every Sunday. I feel very happy, it was as a teacher (and he really taught me a lot over the years). We have our differences from time to time, and that can tacky-especially when we are live on the radio! -but I think in general, we have a very close, healthy relationship. And he's a great grandfather to my children.
I saw you at Boston Travel Show talking 3 years ago on the own line of guidebooks. How are your books different from the main line of Frommer deliberations?
The regular Frommer's guide to benefit people in all issues to be parentheses. My guides are strictly for budget travelers, but unlike other leaders targeting misers (and I would be proud for I stingy) my books are not necessarily for the backpacker crowd. I felt there many other leaders were covering this market, but very, very few for the working guy (or gal) who still has itchy feet, but can not have the stomach to share more for a room with 10 other people and may only have limited time to travel (that is, they really have to find good deals for rapid transport forms). to be a mother herself, the books speak very directly to the needs of traveling families.
And we have (as mentioned in "The Other Paris" books or "the other Maui") a very interesting section in each of "The Other", the reader experiences it leads could try that allow them to engage directly with the local culture. This could "pirate dinner parties" in San Francisco to be (where local home chefs demonstrate their skills at dinner parties for other foodies), road bowling in Ireland (just like it sounds, a game that over miles of country roads takes) to Dealers in Vegas in shadowing (and learn how exactly they You rook), or from your vacation with a protection which helps stray dogs and cats on the Isla de Las Mujeres part voluntarily. These are just a fraction of the unusual experiences that we make our readers aware
A final difference. We spend much more time than any other mainstream guidebook series to explore alternative accommodation. In the guides of the preparation, not we visit not only hotels and then tell about Distributors and other options. We also visit dozens of homes and agencies, so that we. With authority that can tell the best We berth at monasteries, farms, yurts, rentable horse and wagon in Ireland, you name it. There are so many interesting and affordable accommodation and only a fraction of them are about written by the mainstream media.
What is your overall travel philosophy?
"spend less, see more", that is the tagline of my books, but it fits. I think if you spend less, you probably more interesting to have authentic travel experiences. They will eat where the locals eat, celebrate, where they celebrate. And equally important, you will support the local industry and in a green fashion stay at Mom and Pop inns, eating at local restaurants beloved travel, public transport, etc.
As someone who makes guide on how the rise of online guides you see? Is it a good or a bad thing?
as the first editor of Frommers.com, pioneer I the Online Guide. And it is clear to me that we are on a paperless media in motion. Therefore Frommers is its content in all its forms, made up of the Internet on the phone applications ups in GPS systems to iTunes audio guides Pop. My only hope is that readers understand there is a difference between the guides, which are created by journalists and those who are thrown on the Internet as a marketing tricks of PR firms. It is important that you go with a name you can trust, one that will present the information in an impartial, consistently researched manner.
Most of my readers are long term travelers. What advice would you give backpackers and travelers around the world?
Read! And I'm not talking about guide. I am convinced that an informed traveler, one who reads about the history of the place to visit, its culture, its current political situation, its art scene, etc., is to get more out of the way, and how important know what to look for. You will have more chance that the beaten path always now and see what really looks like the culture.
What is your worst travel experience?
I once had to do an article on a guided tour, which meant I had to take a guided tour (for two days). I felt like in a comic style prison was, with Italy through the glass of a large bus to see, rather than on the streets. And with a terrible leader drone on and, very little insight into listening to what we saw. On this tour, I heard a woman turn to her husband and bubbling "Is not Italy beautiful! You get not only a long time ago." Her husband replied with a shrug, "Eh. I've seen better." And I thought, well, if his only experience of Italy consisted of listing this bore chattering on and on, in the lousy tourist restaurants treat large enough to eat 40 bus passengers all at once, and sit for hours in a bus all day ... well, yes, he had probably seen better.
Now I do not want to diss all tours. I have made some great afternoon walks, and there are several tour companies that you do not give this kind of pre-fab experience. You only need to do your research to make sure that you are having a better type of travel companies. Or you can drive as I usually are independent!
Pauline Frommer be found on their weekly radio show, Twitter or Frommer's website, where you can find out more about their line of travel guides.
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