Love Bangalore
Australian traveller and India addict Fiona Caulfield has set up a boutique publishing company, Love Travel Guides, for the "luxury vagabond". First handbook off the presses is Love Bangalore, which features Caulfield's experiences in India's IT hot spot. Caulfield, who lived in the city while compiling the bright 100-page book, has attacked the project with gusto. The presentation is superb, from the scarlet silk presentation bag and hand-woven cover to the ragged-edge bookmark and soft parchment-like paper. It looks, and feels, like a book of secrets. And so it is: all the savvy insider knowledge a traveller craves is here. There's a focus on cafes, restaurants, shopping -- especially for lifestyle purchases at emporiums with names as inviting as Cinnamon and Sanctuary -- and detailed descriptions of where to stay (Caulfield recommends room four at the heritage property Villa Pottipati or room seven at the Jayamahal Palace, Indira Gandhi's favourite bed chamber). Love Mumbai and Love Delhi will be launched in October. --Susan Kurosawa, Weekend Australian, July 16th 2007Love Stories - A guidebook pretty enough to give as a gift is rare, but Love Travel Guides by Fiona Caulfield are printed on handmade paper and covered in Tibetan raw silk. The first, Love Bangalore will be followed by guides to Mumbai and Delhi, full of lovely illustrations and tucked into a Mysore silk bag. --Conde Nast Traveller, September 2007"Strikingly different, refreshingly intimate and beautifully designed" --Travel & Leisure, March 2007