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The Best Travel Book you've read till date
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Ian Sutton
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I have two, but they're more 'resources'.
Golosario (Paolo Massabrio) is an annual listing of specialist food shops in Italy and it's pretty thorough. Yes, occasionally something less than stellar is listed, and occasionally something good was missed, but the exceptions are rare for something of this scale. All in Italian, but even non-speakers should get some value from it if they like grazing food shops.
Italy for the gourmet traveller, isn't IMO such a good food resource, having very limited coverage and even that can feel like it struggles to get past the obvious at times. However, I find it a far more useful book to give me a 'feel' for a region, city, area, with writing that is very engaging and driven by a clear love for the country. It's been very useful in getting holiday plans started, as reading a few sections can inspire ideas of candidate locations to visit, that I then explore in more detail.
Golosario (Paolo Massabrio) is an annual listing of specialist food shops in Italy and it's pretty thorough. Yes, occasionally something less than stellar is listed, and occasionally something good was missed, but the exceptions are rare for something of this scale. All in Italian, but even non-speakers should get some value from it if they like grazing food shops.
Italy for the gourmet traveller, isn't IMO such a good food resource, having very limited coverage and even that can feel like it struggles to get past the obvious at times. However, I find it a far more useful book to give me a 'feel' for a region, city, area, with writing that is very engaging and driven by a clear love for the country. It's been very useful in getting holiday plans started, as reading a few sections can inspire ideas of candidate locations to visit, that I then explore in more detail.
Pauline
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I always get a guidebook for a new country or place. They are my main resource. Also a walking/hiking guidebook.
I read novels set in the countries I am going to.
Or memoirs by people who have moved there. Now a lot of that is on YouTube and I watch too many of those videos.
For travel inspiration I don’t know. Probably trip reports!
I read novels set in the countries I am going to.
Or memoirs by people who have moved there. Now a lot of that is on YouTube and I watch too many of those videos.
For travel inspiration I don’t know. Probably trip reports!