No comments about Day Tours from Dublin.

1 comments about Georgina Campbell's Ireland For Garden Lovers': Gentle Journeys Through Ireland's Most Beautuful Gardens With Delightful Places To Stay Along The Way (Georgina Campbell's Ireland).

1. In the U.S. it's very difficult to find guides to the fabulous gardens of Ireland. This book not only highlights the best gardens but also reviews hotels, inns, guest houses and restaurants nearby. I used this extensively when planning a trip to Ireland's gardens for a group. It led me to wonderful places to stay and beautiful places to visit.

No comments about Towpath Tours: A Guide to Cycling Ireland's Waterways.

No comments about Cork, 2nd: The Bradt City Guide (Bradt Mini Guide).

4 comments about An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters.

1. If you are the type of traveler interested in exploring off the well traveled trail this book is a must! If you have ever experienced an unexplainable affinity for the island of Ireland and its people you'll wonder why you haven't read this one yet. Get it, read it, you won't be disappointed!



2. I purchased this book and McFadden's follow-up on Scotland (which I haven't yet read) based on the local newspaper's Travel section recommendation of the Scottish title. If the book on Scotland is much like the one on Ireland I'm not looking forward to reading it. McFadden spends too much of his narrative observing himself and his unexpected travelling companion, the impulsive Spanish chambermaid/photographer/poet Lourdes Brasil, then he does the people and landscapes of Ireland. I grew tired of his self-congratulatory asides that Lourdes was gaining admiring glances from the Irish. I wanted to know more, to SEE more about the land he was travelling through and the people he was encountering. And instead of making countless references to the photographs both he and Lourdes were taking, he should've included some of the photos in the book. Overall, I wanted more descriptions, to gain more of a sense of being there in Ireland. Instead I was left with the feeling that I had eavesdropped on the unexpected frolic of a middle-aged man and a young Spanish chambermaid who just happened to meet in Ireland and drive around the countryside for a bit. For a better sense of place, skip McFadden's book and try any of the series of travelling and life in Ireland by Niall Williams and Christine Breen.



3. After enjoying Pete McCarthy and Tony Hanks' tales of travelling 'round Ireland, I was very disappointed with McFadden's attempt at the same. He is too self-absorbed and never really sees anything other than cliche. Don't waste your time!



4. This should have been called An "Innocent" Slogging Around Ireland. The author explains early on his notion of innocent, but I would hardly call a middle-aged man who picks up a young chambermaid an innocent. (Also, is this guy middle-aged, as the cover photo would indicate, or he is considerably older? He looks about 70 in the flap photo.) Moralizing aside, the author seems only vaguely interested in his plan to follow H.V. Morton's route, and he tends to skip from one subject to another in the space of a single paragraph. Though he makes attempts to explain the look of a thing, person or place, his prose isn't very visual. I also agree with another reviewer that there should have been photographs included. I am very glad I didn't buy the volume on Scotland, which I had been tempted to do. Read Tony Hawks or Pete McCarthy instead.

1 comments about Little Tenement on the Volga.

1. If you want a glimpse of post-Soviet Russia, this is the author's experience living in one of thousands of tenements in a former factory town on the Volga river. Excellent insight and cultural perspective.

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No comments about Art and History of Rome (Bonechi Art & History Collection).

No comments about Gay Times Great Britain & Ireland.

1 comments about Michelin Great Britain & Ireland: Mortoring Atlas (Mini-Spiral Atlas).

1. Purchased for a week-long trip in Irelend. Unfortunately, couldn't find an Ireland atlas we were interested in.
   
   The scale is the key, and in this instance, we felt it didn't give enough detail to even figure out when we were approaching roads we could see. Finally, we gave up and used maps in the tour guides, which tells you how desperate we were.
   
   When driving, we'd find that none of the roads listed in tour guides were to be found in the atlas, which was a problem. We'd also have trouble with very inconvenient spots where one map would end and the next would begin (either because of the binding or the need to turn a page).
   
   I've used a lot of atlases and maps, and this one just didn't seem to do enough for us to be helpful.