No comments about Valencia Insight Flexi Map (Insight Flexi Maps).

No comments about Langenscheidt's Jiffy Travel Pack Spanish.

No comments about Working and Living: Spain (Working & Living - Cadogan).

No comments about Barcelona Travel Map (Globetrotter Travel Map).

No comments about Gibraltar.

No comments about Algarve: The Finest Valley and Mountain Walks (Rother Walking Guides - Europe).

2 comments about Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees (Cicerone Mountain Walking).

1. Author Kev Reynolds is an experienced walker and climber in the French and Spanish Pyrenees. The book describes some of the most interesting parts of the Pyrenees, and includes some 20 pages of color and black/white photographs.

   For everyone, new or already acustomed to the range, planning to make a day-trip walk or true hike in the Pyrenees this book can be of nice help for finding good ideas what areas to visit and what routes to take. Based on this book the detailed maps can be bought, and the details of the route further discovered.

   For every massif there is a 2 page introduction, followed by route descriptions (usually at around 1 page length, sometimes including a photograph). Usually the routes are for experienced walkers no problem, however overweighted first time walkers can forget to follow the routes.

   From extensive experience with the range, it must be said that Mr. Reynolds pretty well describes the tracks, without to big mistakes. Shure, you still need a French IGN map, or a less good) Spanish Editorial Alpina map, but this book gives a good impression in what to expect.

   The book further includes a short description of the HRP (Haute Route Pyreneenne), a map desciption and a bibliography. Author Kev Reynolds has also written Classic Walks in the Pyrenees (larger sized, with more photograps, describing 24-classic walks) and The Pyrenees.




2. Kev's work seems pretty thorough. I will field test the guide this july.

No comments about The Taste of a Place, Andalucia (Taste of a Place).

1 comments about A Foreign Affair: Two Innocents Abroad in Spain.

1. Worn down by yet another dreary English winter and with an emotional disinclination for hard - or indeed any - work. Shaun Briley decides that life in Spain has to be a better bet. So he and his girlfriend Helen set off with their meager savings (well hers) and buy an isolated farmhouse in the mountains of Almeria. Two innocents abroad, they don;t realise their farmhouse has neither electricity, water nor indeed a lavatory. What follows is an extremely funny tale of how not to settle in a foreign land, involving rat racing, runaway horses and infatuated cross-eyed neighbours.
   --- from book's back cover

No comments about Chicago InsideOut (Insideout City Guide: Chicago).