No comments about Paisages del alma.

No comments about The Four Voyages of Columbus (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure).

No comments about Mallorca and Ibiza Insight Guide (Insight Guides).

No comments about Teach Yourself Beginner's Portuguese (Set4) (Ty: Beginner's Courses).

No comments about Argentina (Exploring Countries of the Wor).

No comments about The Way of Saint James, Volume I.

No comments about A Winter in the Azores - and a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas.

No comments about Popout-Popout Seville (Europe Popout Maps).

1 comments about Travellers Lisbon and Porto (Travellers - Thomas Cook).

1. The only travel guide dedicated to Lisbon and Porto alone, this book is well written and informative showing that the author, Louise Pole-Baker, has done her research well.
   
   As well as listing what to see in each of the cities of Porto and Lisbon, including suggestions for plenty of walks,drives and excursions, it provides the reader with succinct but useful background information on their history, culture and festivals. There is also a directory covering entertainment, accommodation, shopping, sport and leisure and even a section on occupying the children. The last two pages contain a few basic phrases but one would definitely need to invest in a larger dictionary rather than relying on this. The book is packed throughout with beautiful and often enticing photographs.
   
   Having sung the wonders of the book, I'm sorry to say that the same cannot be said for the mini CD-ROM which accompanies the book, and which was not written by the author listed above, but by

1 comments about Travellers Madeira, 3rd: Guides to destinations worldwide (Travellers - Thomas Cook).

1. Though there are many travel guides of many destinations, finding a good one about Madeira has been a challenge. Too often the island is relegated to, at most, a chapter or a page or two in a guide to Portugal. Having exchanged a week's time-share in Mexico for a week in Madeira, I was eager to find a more in-depth, up-to-date guide. This seems to fill the bill! I was delighted to find it.