Darwin Porter, a native of North Carolina, was assigned to write the very first edition of a Frommer s guide devoted solely to one European country. Since then, he has written many bestselling Frommer s guides to all the major European destinations. In 1982, he was joined in his research efforts by
Danforth Prince, formerly of the Paris bureau of the
New York Times, who has traveled and written extensively about Europe.
American expatriate Lesley Logan, a freelance travel writer and editor, has lived in London for over a decade. She s written several travel guidebooks, including the Unofficial Guide to London, London Day by Day, and the Berlitz Pocket Guide to London. She is currently working on The Florman Guide to Europe s Best Restaurants.
George McDonald has lived and worked in both Amsterdam and Brussels as deputy editor of the KLM in–flight magazine and as editor–in–chief of the Sabena in–flight magazine. Now a freelance journalist and travel writer based in Germany, he is the author of Frommer s Amsterdam and Frommer s Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg, and a co–author of Frommer s Europe from $70 a Day.
Hana Mastrini is a native of the western Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary who became a veteran of the Velvet Revolution as a student in Prague in 1989. She began contributing to Frommer s guides while helping her husband, John, better understand his new home in the Czech Republic.
New–York based Sascha Segan is a freelance journalist who has lived on three continents and spent quite a lot of time riding the rails of Europe. He has worked for Expedia Travels magazine, ABCNEWS.com, and The Guardian in the U.K. He is currently a columnist at Frommers.com and is the author of Frommer s Fly Safe, Fly Smart and Priceline For Dummies.
Born in Chicago, Theodora Tongas traveled around her parents native Greece many times as a child. After earning a master s degree in journalism from Northwestern University s Medill School of Journalism, she went to work as a reporter for the Associated Press in Athens, and has lived there ever since. With Athens as her base, she has toured the entire mainland and many islands by plane, train, and automobile.
Andrew Princz is a freelance travel and culture journalist who regularly contributes to the Wall Street Journal Europe. He is the author of Frommers Budapest & the Best of Hungary, and the editor and publisher of the Budapest–based cultural portal www.ontheglobe.com.
A native New Yorker, Naomi Kraus is a veteran editor at Frommer s and a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She s logged lots of miles on European trains while touring that continent.