Rome, Paris, New York and London are the first destinations of these guides for children
Did you know that the ancient Romans of the elite they ate flamingo tongue ? that the Queen of England has been given a canary from Germany, two black beavers from Canada, two giant tortoises from the Seychelles and even an elephant from Cameroon ? Surely your children won't know... and neither will you. We have not taken these data from any travel guide on Rome and London, no. We have found them in 'My first Lonely Planet: great secrets for little travelers' , the first collection of guides for the little ones.
London, Rome, New York Y Paris These are the four destinations with which Lonely Planet opens a new window in its particular world of travel, a low window, within the reach of the little ones in the house. However, the content is not so 'low'. Flipping through the pages of the guide London , for example, the child in question will not only end up knowing the guy fawkes story , but Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik They are based in the British capital.
Cover of the London guide that reads "Fire and plague, punk music, Trafalgar, animals on the tube..."
Each of the volumes has a peculiar history of the cities and the treatment of the idiosyncrasy of each one and of the citizens that populate it is striking. What are you doing Vivienne Westwood with a screaming balloon "I am the grand dame of punk!" ? This is how we are presented with one of the fashions for which the London guide makes an extensive review: mini skirts, Rastafarians, psychedelia, punk rebellion (just explained behind a family tree of the Windsor family) ... With naturalness, with a funny wink and with a lot of intelligence , without skimping on details or stories that, after all, are just that: History capitalized.
Despite the attractiveness of the colors, the drawings and the imaginative composition of each page, we cannot avoid pausing on content such as the page dedicated to the London Torture Tower or the Roman crypt of the skeletons of the Capuchin monks. They don't mess around in Lonely Planet - and never better said.
Both the beauty of the Trevi Fountain and the not-so-beautiful rubbish that adorns the streets on the outskirts of the Roman capital, everything, absolutely everything, is explained by silencing the "And why? But why? And why is that? "continued from the children. Perhaps the ones who need this guide are the parents to prepare themselves before a trip... despite the fact that each volume warns us: "This is not a guide. And much less a book for parents".
"Maddening traffic, party on the piazza, historic stones, pizzas and pasta..." This is Rome in 'My First Lonely Planet'