No comments about Frommer's Northern Italy with Your Family (Frommers With Your Family Series).

1 comments about Italy: From the Air.

1. I have been to Italy in the past, enjoying it's beauty and splendor. The birds eye view and photography in this book makes Italy even more breath taking.Im going back next year, I will bring the book with me, to see exactly where im standing from the air.ciao.

No comments about Venice, Venetia & the Dolomites, 4th (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan).

No comments about Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome, and the Vatican City (Civilization, Art, and History).

No comments about Rethinking Vienna 1900 (Austrian History, Culture and Society, 3).

No comments about Imperial Rome.

5 comments about Michelin Italy (Michelin).

1. Nicely laid out map, however I did not realize it would be in Italian, so that made it a little trickier to read. I also was hoping for detailed maps of the cities, but the back was blank.



2. One of the reasons we love Italy so much is that the land is so intimately settled: tiny complex towns hug the terrain, cities are assembled of ten thousand tiny jigsaw pieces, and roads meander according to long-forgotten whims. The only perfect map is coterminous with the land, but whereas a useful map of the American midwest can be very small indeed, a useful map of gem-like Italy really needs to be very, very big. Many of the features that make Italy so appealing are too small to show up on most maps. Unfortuantely for me, I depended on this map to navigate the country lanes of Tuscany last week, and it failed totally. It is far too small. It's even too small for finding Autostrada exits with any certainty. It's almost useless, actually, except for the longest trips between big cities. I highly recommend the Michelin spiral-bound book map for navigating in Italy. Its format is more convenient for car travel, it is just as accurate and legible, and it has the level of detail you'll need to avoid spending your whole trip lost and frustrated. I also recommend supplemental detailed city maps. Better yet, don't drive in Italy at all. It's insane. Especially plan to walk or take cabs in towns and cities. Cazzo!



3. This map, while being very colorful, left off a major road to Chianti, which got us totally lost. Also, the paper began to separate in the folds after just a few openings.
   Look elsewhere.



4. This map is good as an overview or if you're driving on the major roads. If you need specific locations or secondary routes, look for one with more detail. Its light weight and small size made it easy to tote with us and did help when we decided to visit some locations not originally on our itinerary. Happy traveling.



5. The map is great and incredibly detailed. Instead of printing the whole county on one side, it might have been better to divide it into North and South, one on each side, just for ease of viewing.

No comments about Rome: Ten Literary Walking Tours.

5 comments about Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop Paris: The Ultimate Guide for People Who Love to Shop (Born To Shop).

1. I purchased this book a little while before going to Paris and read it cover to cover, made maps, reference marks on my maps (basically went over board) believing I had invested money in a guide that was somewhat acurate. Sadly, I was mistaken - many of the stores mentioned were either no longer in business or were at another address. Most of the advice was off the cuff and not honest enough to be taken seriously by anyone. It is a fun read, don't get me wrong, but more as fiction than fact. Paris is a living, breathing animal of a city, always changing - i realize now that advice, not military precision shopping, is what I am looking for, and this is not it.



2. I've been traveling to Paris for 35 years (lived there for one) and so, know the city fairly well.... A friend lent me this book, and I tried to use it during the 3 weeks I spent in Sept-Oct of last year (2006), and was very disappointed. I mapped out the locations of several of the shops Suzy raves about, and arrived, only to find that the store was no longer (was it ever?) at the address she gave. If you know Paris, you know that there are tons of little, hard-to-find-rues, so it was VERY frustrating to spend so much time looking....and finding nothing. I would suggest she do her homework before she publishes another guide.



3. I always eagerly await Suzy's latest Born To Shop Editions from all over the world and this one didn't disappoint. Since she has lived there for over 5 years this edition has been stream lined to perfect. Even with the transportation strike while visiting this past 2 weeks.............Thanks!!



4. When this series started 20+ years ago, it was interesting and fresh. Now it merely looks old,out-of-date and worthless. Suzy's editorial style is intensely irritating. She's a fashionista who couldn't be less interested in anything you can't wear. And I agree with the other reviewers - most of it is years out of date.



5. I have previous editions of this book which I found initially helpful but this " updated" one is hardly that. It still lists stores that closed 6 years ago!!!!! The author has not done her research recently and it is reflected by inaccurate data causing shopping angst!

No comments about Italy: Cross Sections of a Country.