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| Northern Spain Handbook (Footprint Handbooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Andy Symington
Publisher: Footprint Handbooks
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 560696
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 7.1 x 1
ISBN: 190347115X
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781903471159
ASIN: 190347115X
Publication Date: April 25, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent February 3, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I don't know what these people are moaning about. This is the second footprint guide we have used when travelling in the area and both have been excellent. If you need a guide to find the pyrenees, or to tell you the area is beautiful, then maybe you shouldn't bother going. I found it informative, interesting and accurate. Much better than the other books for the same region which I also own.
Informative, practical and interesting May 7, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had never used a Footprint guide before, but had been urged to give them a go from fellow travellers, and I have got to say, that I found this book to be very good indeed.The writing was intelligent and interesting. I agreed with the hotel and restaurant recommendations, and was rarely let down. Everything was accurate and up to date, which makes a change from Lonely Planet and Rough Guide. I did take another guide book with me, but soon ditched it in favour of this one.I will be taking Footprints with me from now on, wherever I go.
 An uninspiring, jaded directory September 7, 2003
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
I bought this book to help me plan my trip to Northern Spain, but regretted it. It's style is very similar to that of the Lonely Planet series - jaded, sniping and over-detailed in its emphasis on practicalities. If you want to know the location of the launderette in every village in the region, this is the book for you. If you're looking for inspiration in deciding how to best focus your attentions during those precious few days of holiday, forget it! Should I visit the Picos de Europa? This book makes it sound like the tourist trap from hell (and more paragraph space is given to the description of the local cheese than in describing the beauty of the area). Should I visit the Pyrenees? You might be forgiven for thinking they didn't exist given that they're not even listed in the (hopelessly inadequate) index. Once you do manage to track down the relevant sections you'll be left with a vision not of a majestic mountain chain, but a network of villages and towns packed with places to stay, places to eat and places to do your washing (in fact rather similar to every other region in Northern Spain if this book is to be believed). I suspect the authors spent several months traipsing around the country with backpacks in the rain, and were pretty fed up with the place by the time they got round to writing up their notes. This is a directory, not a guide book.
 too much vaguness August 18, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
very difficult to get your head round practicalities, such as transport from one destingation to another.good coverage & info on places off the normal routes,interesting background info but very frustrating to use. not many maps. not very logical lay out & no uniformity of information formats i think i'll stick to rough guides & lonely planets!
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