Casey Blondes

Casey O'Brien Blondes is the author of PARISIAN HIDEAWAYS:Exquisite Rooms in Enchanting Hotels (Rizzoli 2009,2012) and FRENCH COUNTRY HIDEAWAYS:Vacationing at Private Chateaus & Manors in Rural France (Rizzoli 2005).

She left New York for Paris in 1988 intending to stay a year and has yet to move back. Now a dual national, Casey lives between the Loire Valley and Paris.

She writes about French life, culture and tourism for print and web media, and has her own blog To&Fro.