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.Blue Guide the Loire Valley (Blue Guides) City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: John McNeill 1995-10 I am a big fan of the Blue Guide series, I wouldn't want to go to Europe without one. However, this is one I left at home. The author takes you on a road trip around the Loire Valley and comments on every village he passes through even though most have absolutely nothing in them. The major chateaux are given quite a bit of space, especially their architecture but not much on the historical context. The entire book was very dry. I do not buy the Blue Guides for their advice on how to get around, but I certainly expected something better than this. >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide the Loire Valley (Blue Guides) |
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.Blue Guide Madrid, Second Edition (Blue Guides) City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: Annie Bennett 2000-10 I am a big fan of the Blue Guide series, I wouldn't want to go to Europe without one. However, this is one I left at home. The author takes you on a road trip around the Loire Valley and comments on every village he passes through even though most have absolutely nothing in them. The major chateaux are given quite a bit of space, especially their architecture but not much on the historical context. The entire book was very dry. I do not buy the Blue Guides for their advice on how to get around, but I certainly expected something better than this. >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Madrid, Second Edition (Blue Guides) |
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.Blue Guide Museums and Galleries of London, Fourth Edition City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: Tabitha Barber, Charles Godfrey-Faussett December 12, 2005 Whether visiting London for your first time or you feel you know it very well, this is a brilliant starting point to determining which museums are worthy of your time. Blue Guide is easy to read and navigate. It's very objective in its presentation. It alphabetically lists museums and galleries from the world famous to small hidden treasures and describes them in very good detail, whether it takes one or twenty pages. If you only take one book to London, take this. The concierge and free (or cheap)resources available there (like Time Out magazine) can help you with shopping, navigating public transport, dining, performing arts, etc. It will not only help determine which museums, but you'll know which bits of the museums you'll most want ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Museums and Galleries of London, Fourth Edition |
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.Blue Guide Southern India City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: George Michell 1998-03 I have spent something like 50 years writing books on India and traveling there. I went to Madura first in 1959. Took a boat once in 1960 from Madras(now Chenai) to Singapore for $10 along ( a 14 days deck passage trip)with 1400 Tamil workers, who wre headed for new lives in Singapore. Ah, the old days ... Reading these book reviews herein posted I can only lament at the fools, nerds, idiots and generally feckless whimpy and clueless people who now "travel" if that is what you can call travel now to unbelievable, otherworldly places like South India. This book by George Michel is absolutely the best South Indian Guide ever written on South India ....which takes up the sites, and culture of India that has ever been written. ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Southern India |
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.Blue Guide Athens and Environs City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: Robin Barber 1992-03 I just returned from spending a week in Athens and used this guide the entire time. It is a fantastic personal guide for the whole city, taking you to all the ancient sites as well as the more different places. The book explains the history of the sites, and then tells you almost stone-for-stone what you are looking at for each site. There are wonderful parts of Athens I would have missed had I not had this book with me. It also goes through places outside Athens, such as the sites at Sounion and Eleusis. If you're interested in ancient history (and especially archaeological sites), then you can't do better than to take this guide with you to Athens. >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Athens and Environs |
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.Blue Guide Istanbul, Fifth Edition (Blue Guides) City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: John Freely 2000-07 This book has not yet been shipped to me three months after I ordered it, and I trust I have not yet been charged for it, either. But if Amazon wants a review, they have it here. >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Istanbul, Fifth Edition (Blue Guides) |
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.Blue Guide Greece City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: Robin Barber, John Flower 1996-01 This is a great book to find information about archaeological sites around Greece. It gives very thorough information and descriptions. Great book to use with other guides. I didn't give it a 5 star because it has not been updated (e.g. it still has the location of the old Athens airport). >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Greece |
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.Blue Guide Portugal City Travel Guides > Books > Blue Guide by: Ian Robertson 1996-08 This is a great book to find information about archaeological sites around Greece. It gives very thorough information and descriptions. Great book to use with other guides. I didn't give it a 5 star because it has not been updated (e.g. it still has the location of the old Athens airport). >>See More Reviews & Details on Blue Guide Portugal |