5 comments about Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - with integrated metro map including lines and stations.

1. It's a good map but considering that most people will take public transport and see the well marked general tourist atractions, you don't really need it. It gets two stars as it's a good map but not really required for a trip to Budapest.



2. The map is nice but does not cover the entire city. If you are serious about traveling in Hungary, you probably need to go to Europe to get a good enough map. This isn't it. I wrote them asking if they had a better map and they didn't even answer.



3. An excellent map - easy to read and to fold. Highly recommended.



4. I purchased this map for a friend that was visiting Budapest this summer. I was fairly disapointed to find that it was only the map along the river and missed out of the major atractions in Budapest. Where's the castle, Heros square, Parliment, or the historic bath house spas.
   The delivery was fast and efficient. I had very high expectations having just visited Budapest with a Hugarian guide to show the hot spots.



5. The problem with this map is that in trying to be so small it limits its usefulness. You can't track a whole trip on one page, or easily find a street by name. I should have learned my lesson about these Streetwise maps by now.

4 comments about Top 10 Munich (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE).

1. The type in this guide is so small I'm shopping for reading glasses to bring with me on my trip! It seems to be laid out well but being so hard to read I don't know how much I'll really use it.



2. Guten tag!
   
   DK Publishing is the leader in "Top 10" travel guides and their Munich edition is no exception. Accurate and easy to read maps, detailed train/metro line guides, and top 10 lists for nearly everything the city has to offer. I especially enjoy reading their recommendations for how many hours to plan for a museum/point of interest visit. This came in especially handy when visiting the Deutsches Museum. I originally planned to spend three hours there and ended up dedicating nearly an entire day based on the guide. The day was enjoyable and I was able to browse through all the exhibits - which were amazing and I recommend this museum if you are visiting Munich!
   
   The guide is also handy to have as you take guided tours through the city. We all can't remember the names of the sights and the hundreds of facts behind them, but you can refer back later in your hotel or on your trip home.
   
   Don't miss the section in the back on commonly used words/phrases and their translations. This came in handy a few times!
   
   Top 10: Munich - 5 Stars
   
   Safe travels,
   Matthew Sherman



3. If you are planning a short trip to Munich this is a must have book. It covers excellent restaurants and wonderful places to stop and shop. The essential sights are all listed by region and are explained in enough detail for one to decide if they want to visit. If you are going for a longer period of time I would recommend a bigger guide but I would still get this one to walk around with. If you are travling around the Bavarian alps region you will need another travel guide in addition to this one as it stays focused on Munich



4. Every time I go to Europe, I spend a great deal of time researching the sights I want to see, so a book like this is redundant for me. However I gave it to my son who was traveling with friends abroad, and they loved it. They thought they hit the high points of the city and went out of their way to thank me for it.

3 comments about Lonely Planet Berlin Encounter.

1. This book has all the information you need, to prepare you for a wonderful vacation in Berlin. It's the kind of book that you curl up with near the fire on a cold snowy winter day and read about the trip you'll take during the summer. But--------- there are better guides for those individuals who have travelled in Europe before and who just want the nuts and bolts and will allow the city to visit them. I personally recommend either DK (Dorling Kindersley) Eyewitness Guide to Berlin or the slightly older Knopf 'City Guide' published last in 1998. However with Berlin changing so rapidly, you'll probably do better with the DK guide. It has more photos which aren't essential, but are a nice added feature but more importantly it breaks the city up in a better way to help you get the most out of your time. I think it's much better.



2. Nice, easy to read book with goog inside information. Really helpful if you don't know where te go.



3. this guide is very helpful, with lots of great things to see, and usually from the description i could tell if it was something i wanted to see or skip, although there were some sites that I wondered why they were included, because they were not so interesting after i got there and i would not have made the special effort to go there if i had really known what it was. i found food and restaurants less helpful, because i usually ate in whatever area i was, not making special plans to go to a different area of the city to eat when travel is such a hassel. the maps at the back of the book are invaluable, although the outstretching areas are not included, and are often not included on guide maps either. the book also mentions that certain measurements and conversions are listed in the cover, but they are not. definately make plans with this book of what you want to see before getting there, because there are a lot of amazing sites, but some things are more interesting to different people

5 comments about Germany (Eyewitness Travel Guides).

1. Is this is the first time you 're looking for a tourist guide...don't look anymore, this is the one you want. I was looking for a good guide to go around Germany, while I'm here, and this one just work perfectly me, it gives you a little map of the mayor cities with all the hot spots and an introduction to German history in general and useful travel tips, they also cover all the german states... beautifully illustrated, with a lot of pictures and very useful information. It's an awesome guide!!



2. I have traveled to Germany many times for business, and I can say that this book has all the information that you need. Look no further for your personal travel guide!



3. I purchased this book as a guide, but found it was probably better than any "personal" guide as it is heavily stocked with beautiful pictures, maps, diagrams, and descriptions of castles and other sites.
   
   I like the way the country is sectioned off...by region, etc. At the back of the book are great traveler tips and a list of lodging and dining recommendations.
   
   The size of the book is traveler friendly too with a water-proof cover. This would fit nicely in a woman's purse.
   
   This is a beautiful and handy book to look at even if you don't plan to go anywhere.



4. This is a wonderful book! I gave it to my father for an upcoming family trip to Germany. It provided us with lots of extra information about specific sites and general history of each town. The graphics and photographs are great and add to the usefulness of the book. A must buy for those traveling throughout Germany!



5. I heard about DK guides through several friends of mine.
   
   I visisted Munich and Bamburg. I found the pictures and recommended walks to be very helpful.
   
   I have two major issues with the guide. The first is that it is light on hotels and restaurants. Their idea of moderately expensive is also outside of the range of most younger travelers. Their hotel and restaurant recommendations are, however, very well suited to couples and well-off travelers. Unlike Lonely Planet Guides, DK focuses on the sites and culture of the locations in it. It does not go into internet sites, hostels, laundry sites or rail/bus information. This makes is slightly incomplete for less structured travelers, like myself.
   
   This focus on the cultural aspects of locations at the expense of more extensive travel data, however, makes this book nice and compact and much easier to carry around than the Lonely Planet guide. The cover is tough and durable and has very well designed flaps for marking your location.
   
   My second issue came when I visited the city of Bamburg. I decided to do this at the last minute and so this book was my only guide. I took the railroad and was disappointed when I looked at the map and found that it focused only on the town center and did not show such useful information as to where I was when I stepped out of the railroad station. I had to purchase another map for what was a fairly simple city. I also found my own hotel as the cheapest one in the book for Bamburg was 110 Euros for a single person room. The guide also only gave passing mention to the breweries that made Bamburg famous and did not recommend any or give locations. While I admire architecture and churches, Bamburg is famous for its rauch beer and breweries and these are significant cultural aspects too.

2 comments about Michelin Germany: Benelux, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic: Tourist and Motoring Atlas (Michelin Tourist and Motoring Atlas : Germany, Austria, Benelux, Switzerland, Czech Republic (Spiral)).

1. The maps are excellent. The only problem I have is that I was only interested in Switzerland. Therefore, I would have prefered being given the choice of only the country of my interest. I like the spiral format which allows it to lie flat and easily open 360 degrees.



2. According to Rick Stevens, tourist atlas needs be 1/300,000 or larger scale in order to be useful as driving guide on the road. This atlas has the right scale. I am glad I brought this atlas with me as a backup to my GPS navigator during my 2-week European driving trip in June 2008.
   I had a GPS Navigator (Tomtom GO 720), which worked perfectly for the majority of the time --- I almost thought the traditional atlas was no longer needed. But in two incidence, this traditional atlas proved its value.
   For the first instance, GPS suggested me to drive from Lauterbrunnen to Lugano in Switzerland via the scenic Sustenstrasse Pass. I followed the GPS for about 2 hours, then found out the Pass was closed midway. I had to back-track and rely on the atlas to reroute.
   For the second instance, I was on the motorway from Salzburg to Muchen. An accident occurred (probably a mile ahead) on the motorway. After all traffic stalled on the motorway for one hour, I decided to leave the motorway. This atlas was indispensible in guiding me step-by-step through the scenic country roads to my destination. The paper and printing of the atlas are in very good quality too. It's a worthwhile investment.

5 comments about Munich & The Bavarian Alps (Eyewitness Travel Guides).

1. ...I can affirm the genuine worth of this book. The maps are convenient, easy to use, and marvelously clear. Furthermore, the organization of the guide is wonderfully helpful in assisting the traveler (or resident, as the case may be) in finding cultural destinations, culinary spots, that may have otherwise been missed.

   This guide is, like most all of the Dorling-Kindersley series, geared toward helping the traveler ascertain what things might be of particular sightworthiness. Unlike the Michelin guides, this isn't particularly into the business of rating destinations, and it certainly isn't going to provide the standard domestic AAA guide service of pointing the traveler toward "hot" restaurants. For a diverse, wonderfully cosmopolitan city, this guide provides a marvelous introduction, and though it neglects a few potential interests in outlying regions, does an admirable job of hitting all the highlights, and even including pictures of most.

   The material was current as of late spring 2003.




2. If you're planning on spending just a few days in Munich, then this compact little guide will be indispensible in locating the famous beerhalls and tourist sights. The maps are more than adequate and the walking descriptions to each locale are precise and accurate. There is also corresponding material on how to use the U-Bahn in the city and which station to take for each particular site. There is a separate chapter on the beerhalls of the city with a brief ranking system for the nosiest places, the friendliest, the cheapest beer, etc.

   If you're planning a lengthy sojourn in Munich or if you already know the city well, then this book would not be as helpful. It is basically intended for the casual tourist and the information on the intriguing environs of Munich, including Bogenhausen, Haidhausen and areas of Schwabing, is not detailed. Many of the best sites are neglected because most tourists don't want to bother or simply don't have the time to stick around. The chapters on Berchtesgaden and Garmisch are excellent, however. So this is a thrifty guide you can stick in your pocket and consult when you need to find a restaurant, beer haunt or hotel. In short, if you're a first timer to Munich, enjoy the greatest city in Europe and be sure to tuck away this guide.




3. I used this book as my guide travelling around Munich and I can strongly recommended it to others. The layout of the book is clear and logical which makes choosing destinations and getting there easy. The maps in the book are all in full colour, as always in this series, showing roads as well as public transport routes. Countless illustrations enrich the reading - each carefully drawn so as to say more than a thousand words found in other guides. The choice of restaurants, hotels etc were all great picks. I managed to find a couple of real gems of restaurants in the recommended list here. I can assure that speaking from personal experience: you can use this book with complete confidence!
   
   If you are going to Munich or travelling around Bavaria then this is without doubt the finest guide that you will find. Have a great trip!



4. If you are planning a trip to southern Germany this book is a must. It covers Munich very well but the real impressive part is the Alps. No matter where you are going in the Alps this book will be helpful. The pictures are wonderful and it makes a great coffee table book when you get home. Highly recommend.



5. These guides have the best pictures! I don't take them with me though. Too heavy and not as practical as other guides like Rick Steve's. They are great for reading up on your future destination though. Amazon always has them at a good price(as they are not cheap brand new)and it doesn't matter if you buy a used one or one that is a few years old. There's no admission prices in them anyway.

3 comments about Top 10 Berlin (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE).

1. I have bought many Eyewitness travel guides but this was the first time I used one of their Top 10 guides. It is an incredible travel aid, especially for first time visitors to a major city like Berlin. The guide is about much more than just the top 10 sites in Berlin. For example, each major site, such as the Pergmamon Museum, is further divided into its own top 10. This is an especially helpful aid in a city such as Berlin where the museums alone are worth the trip and each museum deserves days of exploring. When we fell further and further behind our self-imposed schedule, we defaulted to the Top 10 guide and used it extensively: the top 10 at the Egyptian Museum, the top 10 at the Pergamon, the top 10 on Unter den Linden, etc. In addition, the book lists the top 10 in each of a number of categories such as museums, art galleries (which are separated from museums), restaurants, stores, bars, architectural sites, etc. Plus there are neighborhood sections, each with a top 10 list of things to see and a list of cafes, bars and restuarants. This allowed us to go to a major Top 10, see the top 10 within, and then see some of the top 10 of the surrounding neighborhood. I found the recommendations to be reliable. The book is very well organized and includes helpful thumb nail photos. You may or may not agree with all the "top 10" judgements but as a first time visitor I was less concerned about that and more concerned with getting the most that I could out of my few days in a major city. This is the best city guide I have ever used. As an addendum, if you are going to Berlin, buy the murder-mystery novel "The Good German" set in August 1945.



2. If you are planning a short trip to Berlin this is a must have book. It covers excellent restaurants and wonderful places to stop and shop. The essential sights are all listed by region and are explained in enough detail for one to decide if they want to visit. If you are going for a longer period of time I would recommend a bigger guide but I would still get this one to walk around with.



3. This was the only Berlin-specific guidebook I bought for a recent trip, but the heavy weight of the small book meant that I didn't carry it with me when out touring. I did use it to help me label and describe photos that I posted on-line when I returned, and I did try to visit the book's top 10 list. I would recommend it for reference, or for someone who doesn't mind a bit of extra weight when walking around all day.

5 comments about German Survival Guide: The Language and Culture You Need to Travel with Confidence in Germany and Austria.

1. The ultimate compliment you can pay a travel guide? "Works as advertised". I'd argue the same goes for this survival guide of Germany and to a less extent, Austria.

   I acquired a handful, really just a small amount of German as a result of this book, but I used it all for twelve days, and it made a world of difference. The cultural notes, however, were of even greater value: *when* to use phrases is integral to knowing *how*.

   My only two concerns, a half-star I withhold for each: the two-cassette method of delivery and a too-small glossary/ vocabulary/ dictionary. Pack a CD with the book and it's a five-star value; pack another forty pages of German-English word translations and it's official.

   However, if you're serious about German, get the FSI course; if you need a German-English dictionary, pick up a Collins Pocket Gem. Tschüs!




2. I have never been to germany although one day I really hope to go. My husband is german and his mother does not speak a lick of English. This desperate daughter-in-law was saved many embarrassing and fustrating moments by this book. It is a handy size to keep in the car or in a good size purse. I had to live with my MIL for a couple months and weeks at a time and this book has helped me communicate with her on many levels about many necessary topics, especially when my husband wasnt always around to translate or got tired of it.
   Granted it doesnt have every single thing about germans in it but it sure has made my life easier.



3. Ideal for anyone contemplating a precarious excursion to Germany.



4. I am very impressed by the information in the German Survival Guide. I took German in college several years ago and had forgotten most of what I had learned, so the guide is a great refresher. The pronunciation guide is excellent and very easy to read. Even if I had not had German, I would be able to pronounce the words in an appropriate manner in order ask for the things I would need.
   
   In addition to the pronuncation guide, the cultural notes are great. I think that when traveling this is a very important aspect, as I certainly do not want to do something or say something to upset the native speakers.
   
   I have traveled to many different countries and if I would have had a guide such as this, I would have been better prepared and less apprehensive about the language and the customs of the country.



5. 
   Last summer my family and I traveled in Germany, Austria, and several other European countries, and I wish that we had had a guide such as the German Survival Guide with us then. I would find the material inside the front and back covers very useful. It is quick to locate, and the information given includes the terms and phrases that people need most often. For additional words, the German-English and English-German dictionaries are available at the end of the book. The specific chapter we would have used the most would be Ch. 3 on Restaurants and Food since we frequently ate at restaurants without English on the menu. The other parts that are especially helpful are the cultural notes that are interspersed throughout the book. If we travel in Germany again, we definitely will take this book with us!

5 comments about 1632 (Ring of Fire).

1. This period of history is not one I'm familar with, but I just read Mother Courage and Her Children: Adapted By David Hare
   which takes place at that time. This sci fi is an exciting and well written tale, but somewhat bloody. It takes a lot of technology to make an M16
   or a modern tank. The ebb and flow of Europe at this time was very bloody
   and things were just about to change forever as science and mathematics combined for the start of new technology, but the guns were poor
   and the tactics pretty basic. I think an American town would have lasted about a week...



2. First and foremost, Eric Flint is an upper. The man's writing is very positive with the good guys always good, the bad guys always bad, black and white. He is the literary equivalent of methamphetamine, a real feel good author. This is exactly what I was looking for so I picked up one of his books.
   
   1632 is the first in a series about the town of Grantville, West Virginia being picked up and moved through time and space to southern Germany in 1632, in the height of the Thirty Years war. They find two Jewish academics running from mercenary soldiers. After saving them and finding out the Inquisition is going strong and everyone still lives by near medieval morals, they people of the town, headed by their local union rep, decide to bring democracy, justice and apple pie to the backwards heathens. The town/time travel thing is not all that new, and we have seen it before, most notable in the Island In The Sea Of Time by S.M. Sterling. While I don't think this book lives up to Sterling's, its still a good read.
   
   As I have said before, I like lists, so here is my good/bad list. The book does have its good points, to be sure.
   
   1. The characters are all for the most part interesting, even if they are a bit cookie cutter. They have some since of personality, and you really do like them.
   2. The battles are well described, with action being clear an not overly confusing, as is sometimes the case in alt. history.
   3. The history is pretty good, and I buy the way it playes' out with the twist of modern interjection. Alt. history sometimes has a tendency to really take weird turns, and this one doesn't do that so much.
   4. I like the way they take a major figure the author clearly likes, Gustav Adolphus, the King of Sweden, and gives him a major role and a personality.
   
   There are however problems:
   
   1. the romance that springs between characters is for the most place really forced, with some of the couples falling for each other almost instantly.
   2. The flip side of the history being good is he sort of beats you with it. There are chapters where you get how events really took place in history, before you get chapters about how they took place in this reality. Really superfluous.
   3. There is to much jumping between groups. An occasional chapter here and there from the view of someone else is fine, but stay with your main characters, the town back in time. If every three chapters you move to someone else, it's harder to connect with the characters, and frankly, annoying.
   
   The problems aside, this is a good read. Flint remains to be a happy read, and I look forward to the next book in the series. If you like Alt. History or sci-fi of the ilk, I would suggest this.



3. Many years ago, I went through a phase where alternate history fiction intrigued me and I read stuff like Harry Turtledove's Misplaced Legion series and William Fortschen's "Lost Regiment" series. Since then my tastes have more or less moved on. However, I kept seeing books from the 1632 series at the library and finally decided to pick this first one up and give it a whirl. It took me a while to plow though its almost 600 pages (I'd forgotten what doorstoppers these kind of fantasy/sci-fi books were), and at the end I concluded that while it's a decent book for a long airplane ride or day at the beach, it's rather too simple and sweet to take very seriously on the whole, and certainly not something I'd recommend to anyone not already a fan of the subgenre.
   
   The premise is that some kind of cosmic incident transposes a 6-mile sphere of contemporary West Virginia with a similar sphere from Germany circa 1632. The portion of West Virginia includes a town of several thousand people (based on Mannington, WV) along with a high school, power plant, coal mine, and a cast of all-American "regular" folks. (Many reviewers have noted that the premise is very similar to S.M Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time trilogy, which I have not read.) With nary a pause to bemoan their plight, the West Virginians elect an emergency committee and go about the business of reestablishing the democratic republic of the United States (complete with a Bill of Rights) in the middle of the 30 Years War. Indeed, the book is filled to the brim with classic American optimism and go-getting attitude that it often smacks of something from the 1950s (or the 1890s for that matter).
   
   That's all well and fine (if somewhat ironic, given America's current nation-building misadventures in Iraq), but to enjoy the book, the reader has to be on board with the "we can roll up our sleeves and just do it" tone that pervades the story (and presumably the series). This tone is something Flint addresses in his Afterword, and is worth quoting at length, since many readers may find it annoying: "Part of the reason I chose to write this novel is because I am more than a little sick and tired of two characteristics of most modern fiction, including science fiction. The first is that the common folk who built this country and keep it running...hardly ever appear.... That is especially true of people from rural areas....The second is the pervasive cynicism which seems to be the accepted wisdom of so many of today's writers." to be sure, there' nothing inherently wrong in taking that approach (although those "cynics" might point out that the building of this country was done at the expense of those already living here, using genocidal techniques, and that many of those who built were slaves...and that many of those who "keep it running" today are illegal immigrants), but the result of Flint's decision is a story without many setbacks for the plucky Americans, and thus far less drama than many would like.
   
   As one would expect, the West Virginian's technological prowess enables them to immediately start influencing the world around them, and they are soon drawn into taking sides in the 30 Years War. One of the book's great flaws is that it never really pauses to explain what that war was about, or even who the key players are. For example, what is the Swedish king doing with his army in Germany, and why is the reader clearly supposed to assume he's on the side of "good"? Another large flaw is the cast of cardboard characters, a number of whom fall in love at first sight in a manner most convenient to the plotting. More minor flaws include the utter lack of psychological trauma to the displaced people, the lack of social collapse, the ease at which the American and Germans get along, the readiness with which the Germans abandon their social beliefs and codes for that of the Americans, and the rapid pace at which event unfurl in general -- all of which speak to the cheery tone noted above. It's hard to get too involved in the story because the villains, while nasty, never seem particularly menacing or dangerous. But if you're not put off by this (or the rather laughable explicit sex scene), the book is a relatively entertaining diversion -- and I might even pick up the following book in the series the next time I'm looking for an easy read.



4. As a proud practicing Catholic this book offended me. Obviously the author thinks all Catholics are backwards, decadent, manipulative and cruel. Or hopefully he thinks anyone that's Catholic back in the 17th century was all that. I bought this book because of the similarities it bears with S. M. Stirling's _Island in the Sea of Time_. This is pathetic, some how Mr. Flint appears to believe that one small mining town of West Virginia can somehow conquer Europe, but wait! His town has a union! Of course they'll win now!
   
   And the West Virginians have the Socialist King Gustavus Adolfus II to help defend them from the evil Catholic menace! AND they have more bullets than a cowboy's six-shooter-that-shoots-seven. No matter how many times they whup the poor, backwards, 17th century Europeans they never run out of ammunition, they even have a high-school cheerleader sniper to help them! Worst of all the author continues to push far-leftist propaganda by creating two Americans who are foils: a business owner and a retired Navy paper-pusher turned... SURPRISE! businessman.
   
   I'm going to continue this series, but only because I saw David Weber's name on the sequel.



5. Flint has done someshing amazing here: he's invented a really interesting story and rendered it boring, utterly boring. The man has a great imagination but his writing is just painful and his characters wooden and undifferentiated. Too bad really, because the premise of the book offers all the potential a writer could want.

5 comments about Rick Steves' Germany, Austria, and Switzerland Map: Including Berlin, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna City (Rick Steves).

1. Before I moved to Germany from the States I received this book from a friend of my mother's who had spent a few years attending university in Spain and said that Rick Steve's books were what everyone at the university used. Since moving to Germany this book has been great. I carry it around with me whenever we travel because it has so much valuable information.
   
   Some of the other reviews have been extremely negative, but as someone who uses the book on a regular basis and actually lives in the country, I know that this book is great. It is less expensive than others and it gives great suggestions for places to stay. He does spend more time with Berlin and Munich, but considering these are two of the largest cities that have long histories, it only makes sense. The hotel suggestions are great, the last time we were in Berlin we opted to choose our own place that was less expensive. It was neat with all the Bears around (it was called the Bearliner), but it smelled. So, if you plan on travelling to Germany I really suggest getting this book.



2. This was the very first travel book - my mother in law bought it for me right after we were stationed in Germany 6 years ago. I'm still using the 2001 version (yes, I know that's bad!) but it's gotten me all over! The simplified maps and the hotel recommendations have kept my trips easy and fun.
   --Vicki Landes, author of "Europe For The Senses - A Photographic Journal"



3. First and foremost, to clarify, this product that you are supposedly reading reviews for is Rick Steves' MAP of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It appears that the other reviews are of Rick Steves' guidebooks! Again, this product is NOT one of Rick Steves' famous guidebooks (which I would always rate as 5 stars, incidentally!). This map is very basic; don't count on using it to find your way around a country or city. Only the major cities and towns are marked. Likewise, in the city maps of Berlin, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna, only the major thoroughfares are mapped. You should use this map only as a reference to his guidebook of the region to plan your trip. You will want to get a 'real' map that's much more detailed, e.g. Michelin, when you arrive. Best part of this map? The cool water resistant paper on which it is printed. Especially if you have small children who are apt to spill liquid, as mine did on Day One upon receiving it from Amazon!



4. I got this thinking it would get me started on planning my trip to Europe. I had a list of things I wanted to see. When I got the map I was so happy to see that all the tourist attractions were ALREADY MARKED on the map! They were clearly labeled and easy to locate and read. Great product...well worth the money!



5. This is a great high-level roadmap of Germany, but it lacks the detail needed to really explore the countryside. If you are driving through Germany like we did, buy an atlas that provides more route detail. There are so many country lanes in Germany that even a detail book sometimes misses the many villages you'll encounter along the way. If you're taking the train, this map works fine. If you're driving, look at something else.