Dana Facaros (facarospauls.com) wrote her first travel guide to the Greek islands in 1977, then married her college sweetheart Michael Pauls and dragged him into travel-writing fray. They have been at it ever since, writing guidebooks and apps while contributing to a number of UK publications, including the Sunday Times, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Daily Telegraph, Wanderlust and Holiday Which? Alongside numerous guidebooks for Cadogan, they are the authors of seven Bradt guidebooks: Dordogne & Lot, Italy: Umbria & the Marche, Northern Spain, Emilia-Romagna, Northern Greece, Languedoc-Roussillon and Gascony & The Pyrenees. Over recent decades they have lived in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland and southwest France, where they are currently based.