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...a big welcome to an excellent new series from the handsome DK Eyewitness Guides: Back Roads
-- Mail on Sunday, Frank Barrett
-- Mail on Sunday, Frank Barrett
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DK Eyewitness Back Roads Great Britain driving holiday guide will take you via scenic routes to discover charming British villages, local restaurants and intimate places to stay. Unearth the real soul of Great Britain relying on all the practical information you could need, from road conditions and length of drive to parking information and opening hours. Twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems and authentic local experiences in Great Britain that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities from short walks and longer hikes, days on the beach and children's attractions, to cycling trips and local attractions. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels and guesthouses and charming restaurants specialising in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. Full-colour throughout, with a pull-out map of the entire country for easy navigation between tours and even postcode information for use with 'Sat Nav', discover the unexpected on your driving holiday with DK Eyewitness Back Roads Great Britain.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Back Roads? Not quite,
By Graym (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Back Roads Great Britain (DK Eyewitness Travel Back Roads) (Paperback)
I love DK Eyewitness Guides, they are pretty much the only guides I buy and are in my opinion by far the best guides you can get. Since touring in a car is my preferred style of holiday, I had pretty high expectations for Back Roads Great Britain.Obviously I haven't had time to visit all the places in the guide but reading the routes of some of the areas that I know well (Eg the Cotswolds) was enough to highlight the good and bad. What I want from a driving guide like this is to be shown some of the 'off the beaten track' hidden gems that exist in rural Britain. Unfortunately what you get are the larger, more well known towns that most guide books would already have. For example, on the Cotswold drive you go through the very popular town of Bourton-on-the-Water, well worth going to and not to be missed. However a stones throw from here are the tiny and beautiful villages of Upper and Lower Slaughter, Upper and Lower Swell & Naunton etc, they are on the back roads of Britain and sadly missed off the route. Instead 50% of that particular drive is on the A429, not quite a back road. This guide can be bought with or without a pull-out map. I bought the one with the map included as I thought it would be helpful to see the routes plotted on a larger map. A waste of money, it is just a map of Britain with A roads and motorways, so if you already have a map or GPS it is not needed. Another slight negative is the information on larger towns and cities. If you're used to the excellent 3D illustrations of Cathedrals and Historic buildings that other DK guides include, then the information in here may disappoint. For example there is just one paragraph on the city of Salisbury and its splendid cathedral. What I'm trying to say is that this book does not replace the need to have a more detailed place by place guide book. On the positives, my wife loves that the market days are listed out for each route, there are many walking guides for some of the bigger places visited and there are day trip options given for further exploration. The places the routes do go to are all worth going to and not to missed, I just wish the book had given more of what the title promised - back roads, not A roads. Yes there is plenty of B road driving, but if you only follow the routes in the book I am sure there are places worth visiting that will be missed.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Real Must!,
This review is from: Back Roads Great Britain (DK Eyewitness Travel Back Roads) (Paperback)
Detailed maps, clear driving directions, nice pictures, succinct yet interesting descriptions and historical data. Just what I needed to help me plan my road-trip to the UK! Only problem: I do not have the 3 months one would need to cover all the 25 (very very interesting) routes suggested by the book :)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Back Roads Great Britain,
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This review is from: Back Roads Great Britain (DK Eyewitness Travel Back Roads) (Paperback)
A beautifully produced and extraordinarily informative book at a very reasonable price. An essential for anyone wishing to explore the hidden beauties of Great Britain.
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