Trudie Styler attends the U.K. premiere of "Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples" in London on Jan. 21, 2025. Dave Benett | Getty Images | Disney+ When Trudie Styler was growing up in 1960s working-class England, her family expected her to become a typist at a paintbrush factory. But life turned out rather more grandly:…
“Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet," humorist John Hodgman writes in his 2017 book Vacationland. On a recent episode of the Frommer's podcast, guidebook author Brian Kevin said he can relate to Hodgman's remark—though Kevin keeps precious little of the good stuff…
In the first decades of Frommer's guides, published in the 1950s and '60s, London's worst scams seemed to be mostly shame-based. Unscrupulous local ne'er-do-wells had a way of trapping lonely single male visitors who, once full of drink and misplaced lust, would wander into the wrong massage parlor in Soho and weren't allowed to depart…
As with many travel hot spots, Spain has undergone some not-always-welcome changes related to crowds, costs, and climate in recent years. Barcelona's visitation numbers, Seville's summer temperatures, and the country's once rock-bottom prices are all significantly higher than they used to be. But, according to the authors of the freshly updated, newly released edition of…