No comments about Moon Spain (Moon Handbooks).

1 comments about Pyrenearn Haute Route: High-Level Trail Through the Pyrenees (Cicerone Mountain Walking).

1. Ton's 42 day itinerary of the PHR seems very good. Again, I may field test it this july.

No comments about Culture Wise Spain: The Essential Guide to Culture, Customs & Business Etiquette (Culture Wise).

2 comments about Cruising the Mediterranean: A Guide to the Ports of Call (Crusing the Mediterranean).

1. Pages 1-134 contain rapidly outdated information--best got off the web on what cruise lines go where.

   Larry Ludmer then fails to deliver on his promise (p152, Cruising the Med) to indicate the location of each port and give some information on getting there. Two examples: Larry please tell us how equipped with a Eurail pass, one gets
   1) from the Venice train station to the cruise terminal,
   2) from Livorno cruise terminal to Florence??




2. While I have to agree with the previous reviewer that the Ship Itineraries section of this book could easily have been dipensed with, I did find some value in this book, taken as it was. The most major ports have a map (not detailed) that gives you some idea of the locations of major sites of interest in relation to each other. I did find this helpful in planning what it was reasonable to expect to be able to get to. It gives an opinion on what ports are best explored on your own, and which are best seen through a purchased excursion. It also gives some tips on getting around; but these are not always consistently detailed for each location. "Highlights Tours" are provided for those ports that you would want to explore yourself.
   
   I found reading this book to be like sitting down and having a conversation with someone who knows these ports...not always detailed enough, or consistent in information, but interesting mostly because it gives you a bit of an opinion on which to base choices and some information that I didn't get elsewhere about the ports that I visited.

5 comments about Spanish: Lonely Planet Phrasebook.

1. Bought the book before a vacation in Madrid. It was very useful and well organized. When I needed to look up a phrase, I found the book very easy to use. It gave more information that I needed!



2. I just returned from South America (Bolivia and Chile). This book was great to have with me over the past month. There are many instances where it came in handy. It is easy to pack and to carry. I recommend it to anyone traveling abroad to a Spanish speaking country.



3. You send me a message saying the whole order (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, was undeliverable.
   Why?



4. My girlfriend and I knew zero Spanish before travelling to Spain. Thanks to this guidebook we were able to get by in all the situations that we encountered. This book is absolutely essential for those who don't know the language, since Spaniards will warm up to you a lot more if you try to speak in their language. My only regret is that there wasn't enough on Catalan, but that is to be expected. Great product.



5. This guide is small enough to fit in a purse or pocket and full of lots of helpful information. I especially liked the foods section. It was easy to discretely pull it out while we were at the tapas bars and restaurants and figure out what was on the menu. My husband who knew no Spanish before our trip, used the helpful phrases verbatim, whereas I found the short dictionary in the back useful when a I couldn't remember certain words - they were almost always in there. There is even a Catalan and Basque phrase section. Highly recommended if you don't speak fluent Spanish.

No comments about The Rough Guide to Madrid Map (Rough Guide City Maps).

No comments about Living and Working in Spain 2006, Sixth Edition: A Survival Handbook (Living & Working in Spain).

No comments about Spain: In Light and Shadow.

No comments about Insight Guide Spain (Insight Guides Spain).

No comments about Barcelona Hotels & More.