No comments about Fodor's Portugal, 9th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides).

1 comments about Barcelona Step By Step: The Definitive Guide To Barcelona's Streets & Sights (Step by Step Guides).

1. Turner's book is a good, straightforward guide for walking inthe city. It doesn't offer much in the way of photos, but it givesyou the information you need to tour Barcelona in a coherent way. The material is organized geographically, and some of the areas overlap. Each tour has its own focus and is clearly described in its introduction, so you can easily pick the tours and the sights that interest you. The book was written several years ago and of course things keep changing in the city, but it remains a useful guide.

1 comments about Insight Guide: Lisbon.

1. Told me what I needed to know for being in Paris for only 2 days.

2 comments about Manana, Manana: One Mallorcan Summer.

1. I thought that this was a good book. I put myself in the places that I read about. I think that Mallorca would be a wonderful place to visit and meet all of the colorful personalities.



2. I was initially excited to receive this book and complete another armchair adventure. However, I was deceived. This book was rather trite and cliche and I didn't even finish it. It was a typical "we pronounced the words wrong and offended a lot of people" type of travel essay. I want to learn about the ambiance of a place; not how another westerner embarrassed his/herself in a foreign country by not respecting the people, their culture or language.

No comments about Out Around Barcelona & Sitges, 2nd (Out Around - Thomas Cook).

5 comments about Road Of Stars To Santiago.

1. This is a great book and is a very useful guide to the pilgrimage. It is hard to find, and Amazon is doing a great service in trying to provide it for pilgrims. However extracts from the book with very useful information can be found at the Telegraph Online London web site in the TRAVEL section. Look search under Yahoo for Telegraph Online and then Browse the many pages and articles on the pilgrimage found under the travel section. The book is fully reviewed in the newspapers's travel pages, the site has many useful useful facts about the pilgrimage including a FAQ



2. This book is powerful in its simplicity. Stanton's journey is mundane, but from the people he meets and the sites he visits, we learn much about life and travel.Books on the pilgrimage are plenty now, but I would recommend this one for the everyday traveler taking the path.



3. This is a fascinating book, and will appeal both to those who love travel tales and those on a spiritual quest. No self-described holy man, the author is frank about doubting his faith and his ambivalence in making the pilgrimage. Yet you see throughout the book how the journey emptied then replinished him He draws vivid word pictures about the sights, smells and characters that he encounters. If you have a desire to drop out of the hustle and bustle of life to learn to listen to the great, glorious creation around you and the Creator above, then this book will make your feet itch to begin your personal pilgrimage. I enjoyed this book thoroughly, and was enriched by the reading. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!



4. When I bought this book I wasn't sure what to expect. I'd already purchased a couple of pilgrim guides but was hungry for more readable material. This isn't a pilgrim guide but rather a sort of journal of the author's experiences on the Way of St. James.

   For anyone interested in the Camino, hiking or just a well written yarn that's hard to put down, I give "Road of Stars to Santiago" two thumbs up!




5. This was the first book I read about the Camino and it remains, more than a decade and 40 similar texts later, still one of the very best such. If one is to read a single straightforward journal account I can think of no better introduction to the subject.
   
   For my recent compilation of pilgrimage quotations ("Ultreia! Onward! Progress of the Pilgrim") I read all 40 or so contemporary English journal accounts available about the various routes. Stanton's is clearly within the first grouping of 8 or so best such books (i.e. largely those written by established authors and/or academics). And Stanton is immensely quotable; indeed, with 20 such abstracted for my review volume Ultreia!, the Road of Stars to Santiago was the single most quoted text of all.

No comments about Travellers Lanzarote & Fuerteventura, 2nd (Travellers - Thomas Cook).

5 comments about Living and Working in Spain: Survival Handbook (Survival Handbooks).

1. I needed up to date information on retiring in Spain. This book "hit the spot". It is very informative with specific detail on the most important subjects a person researching & preparing for living in Spain will need. The book is a very useful tool, extremely well written & researched. Very entertaining in parts when the humour kicks in !



2. I have been traveling to Spain for more than seven years and thought I knew everything - David has done his homework well - Excellent book and very informative! Buy it!



3. I thought Mr. Hampshire's book was invaluable. His research and data was excellent and very timely. I did think, though, that there were a few prejudices that were quite outdated. Specifically with regards to the amount of time it takes to get things done in Spain. The service industry in Spain is extremely prompt, accurate and courteous. It blows the UK service industry out of the water. There are a few other details that could use updating.



4. This was a great help for me as I was preparing to move to Spain, and it was an enjoyable read. Some up-dating will have to be done though, now that the immigration laws in Spain are changing. I do think that some of the steoreotypes about bueaucratic chaos are a little exaggerated. (I guess Mr. Hampshire hasn't dealt with the American I.N.S. system.)



5. Excerpt of your book: Even more important than a battery backup is a power surge protector for appliances such as TVs, computers and fax machines, without which you risk having equipment damaged or destroyed.

   Hi Mr. David, since 1995 I am living in Spain AND NEVER did I have problems of that kind. But yes I did when I was in US years ago.

No comments about Culture Shock! Portugal: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides).

No comments about Going to Live in Spain.