Croatia With Your Family is a full colour, practical and accessible book for independently minded UK families looking to make the most of their family holiday. Get expert, family oriented advice on where to stay, where to eat and where to spend your holiday time enjoyably. Discover a country with: A relaxed attitude to families and children A beautiful Adriatic coast and well-preserved hill towns The flourishing café society of a newly-independent Republic A myriad of magical islands Excellent seafood and Italian-influenced local specialities Value for money holidays Vineyards and olive groves Let Frommer's show you where your family can: Climb down carved rocks to swim in crystal-clear waters Shout beneath torrents of cascading waterfalls Raft through the highlands to the coast Experience where gladiators clashed and pop stars now sing Hear underwater music Paddle in a colossal chasm turned lake

An information-packed guide that helps families plan trips to niche and popular destinations. Written by local experts Exact prices, color photos, and maps Insider tips for family-friendly travel.

Travel to Eastern Europe is booming-international arrivals to Eastern Europe have increased by an average of 3.9 percent each year since 2004 Destinations covered in this guide are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Moscow & St. Petersburg, Slovakia, Slovenia,and Kaliningrad According to a May 2006 Euromonitor article, Poland has the most visitors (15 million in 2005), with Hungary close behind The fastest growing destination in Europe is Bulgaria; inbound tourists increased 17 percent between 2004 and 2005 Low cost airlines continue to add more routes to and within Eastern Europe

Completely updated, Frommer's Croatia features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you. Our author, who has spent years exploring Croatia, gives an insider's look at everything from the country's famed beaches to it's less-traveled but equally stunning interior. She's checked out Croatia's big cities and small towns, and she offers best authoritative, candid reviews of hotels and restaurants that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. Croatia's incomparable Adriatic beaches, historic treasures (including six UNESCO World Heritage sites), and excellent value (especially compared to other European destinations) are gaining it wide recognition as the hot tourist destination of the moment for American travelers.

The Adriatic Coast of Croatia, with its beaches. marinas, and countless resorts, its ancient and well-preserved medieval cities (Dubrovnik, the star), all supplemented by the great city of Zagreb, and a superb climate, is the current "hit" of European tourism. It is predicted by some that Croatia will soon be the world's 12th most popular travel destination--all ample reason for the publication of this new Frommer's guidebook. Jaunty and fun to read, yet detailed, practical and cost-conscious, this Easy Guide is sure to be a best-seller.

A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia. "We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going to get worse before it gets better. Maybe this is the kick in the pants we needed to do something completely different. There will always be an excuse not to go..." And that, friends, is how a typically sane middle-aged mother decided to drag her family back to a forlorn mountain village in the backwoods of Croatia. So begins author Jennifer Wilson's journey in Running Away to Home. Jen, her architect husband, Jim, and their two children had been living the typical soccer- and ballet-practice life in the most Middle American of places: Des Moines, Iowa. They overindulged themselves and their kids, and as a family they were losing one another in the rush of work, school, and activities. One day, Jen and her husband looked at each other–both holding their Starbucks coffee as they headed out to their SUV in the mall parking lot, while the kids complained about the inferiority of the toys they just got–and asked themselves: "Is this the American dream? Because if it is, it sort of sucks." Jim and Jen had always dreamed of taking a family sabbatical in another country, so when they lost half their savings in the stock-market crash, it seemed like just a crazy enough time to do it. High on wanderlust, they left the troubled landscape of contemporary America for the Croatian mountain village of Mrkopalj, the land of Jennifer's ancestors. It was a village that seemed hermetically sealed for the last one hundred years, with a population of eight hundred (mostly drunken) residents and a herd of sheep milling around the post office. For several months they lived like locals, from milking the neighbor's cows to eating roasted pig on a spit to desperately seeking the village recipe for bootleg liquor. As the Wilson-Hoff family struggled to stay sane (and warm), what they found was much deeper and bigger than themselves.