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Adele Evans
TRAVEL WRITER AND BROADCASTER







BOOKS

ARTICLES

PICTURES

SPECIALITIES

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EXAMPLES OF
PUBLISHED WORK

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My latest guidebook

Berlitz Italy (2011)

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Recently published

Frommer's Day By Day Sicily, by Adele Evans (2010)

AA Key Guide Paris, by Adele Evans (2010)
 

 

 

 





I am a full-time award-winning travel writer and occasional broadcaster, and am the author of many pieces for magazines, newspapers, websites and guidebooks.

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My awards include a BGTW award for broadcasting (1999); Best Italian feature (trade) for ENIT (Italian Tourist Board – 2007); Best Guidebook (runner-up) Travel Press Awards (2009); Best Print Feature awarded by Tenerife Tourism Corporation (2011); and Best Travel Guide Runner up for ‘Frommer’s Sicily Day by Day’, in the Italia (ENIT) Travel Writing Awards (2011).

I have written, contributed to or updated over 30 guidebooks especially on Italy and France for publishers including the AA, AAA, Berlitz, Insight, Dorling Kindersley, Thomas Cook and Frommer’s.

I speak fluent French and passable Italian and Spanish.

 


 

BOOKS

My latest guidebooks are
AA Spiral Sicily (2012)
AAA Italy TravelBook (new edition, 2012)
AAA Europe (Italy) TravelBook (new edition, 2012)
DK Italy with your Family (contributor; 2012)
AA KeyGuide Italy (2011)
Berlitz Handbook Italy (co-author; 2011)

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ARTICLES

My outlets cover a broad brush of national consumer publications from the Sunday Mirror to the Sunday Times and magazines from Bella to The Lady. I have also contributed travel trade features to several magazines including ABTA and TTG Luxury. My work regularly appears on the internet.

SEE EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
 

 

SPECIALIST TOPICS

Italy; France; UK; short breaks; Mediterranean resorts; spas and luxury travel; city breaks; Alpine skiing; destination copywriting.

 

 

PICTURES

I take pictures for many of my travel pieces and also to illustrate several of my guidebooks.

 

 

TO CONTACT ME

Home is in the New Forest in southern England, and also in London. When not visiting Europe (especially Italy and France), my globetrotting takes me farther afield too, including deliciously exotic India. Wherever I am, I can usually be reached by e-mail

 


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BY ADELE EVANS -
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK

A Feast for the Senses - Italy
Perhaps more so than in any other country in the world, in Italy the pleasures of the table are a culinary celebration of life itself. Although it was finally unified politically in 1870, the country is still divided into 20 distinct regions, each of them with its own unique landscapes and history that are reflected to this day in its culinary masterpieces.
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Sardinia's Best Beaches - Italy
Sardinia has some of the world’s most idyllic beaches. Mile upon mile of pearly-white sands dip into waters of dazzling shades of aquamarine and emerald green. Elsewhere, rugged cliffs plunge into the sea and tiny coves and picturesque harbours beg to be explored. The waters really are swimming-pool-blue — and the sandy coves are often deserted.
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Agatha Christie and the Dragon Tree - Tenerife
‘I have never smelt roses so sweet as those in Mr Smith’s garden,’ said the famous botanical painter and traveller, Marianne North. She was speaking of the Sitio Litre Gardens set on a volcanic hillside in Puerto de la Cruz. Forsaking marriage — ‘a terrible experiment’ to Marianne —she instead travelled the world to paint flowers. Not for her the gentle watercolours of the day but oils of vibrant, mesmerising hues.
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