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Full-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Spain is the ultimate guide to this alluring country. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style, Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights. At the top of your list and guaranteed to get you value for money, each guide also reviews the best accommodation and restaurants in all price brackets. We know there are times for saving, and times for splashing out.
In The Rough Guide to Spain:
- Over 50 colour-coded maps featuring every listing
- Area-by-area chapter highlights
- Top 5 boxes
- 'Things not to miss' section
Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Spain.
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12 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Our 2004 Rough Guide was worn out, so bought this, newly published. We have visited Spain a lot and have relied on Rough Guides to advise us on delightful off-the-beaten-track places to visit. They were written by people who were as excited by these places as we became.
What we have here is a guide to the well-worn tourist paths and places. Lots of pretty pictures and worthy prose. If you take this as a guide to "every corner of this fascinating and varied country" as the blurb on the back promises, then you will miss huge areas of "fascinating and varied" Real Spain. Of nine places I had highlighted as possibly worth a visit, only two were listed here: yet they were in the old guide. Even those out-of-the-way areas that have been kept (eg the Pyrenean areas) are much foreshortened.
As I live in France I couldn't view this before buying. Now, I'm getting the sticky tape out (again) to my old guide, and this one will be a gift to a Spain-in-five-days type I know.
What we have here is a guide to the well-worn tourist paths and places. Lots of pretty pictures and worthy prose. If you take this as a guide to "every corner of this fascinating and varied country" as the blurb on the back promises, then you will miss huge areas of "fascinating and varied" Real Spain. Of nine places I had highlighted as possibly worth a visit, only two were listed here: yet they were in the old guide. Even those out-of-the-way areas that have been kept (eg the Pyrenean areas) are much foreshortened.
As I live in France I couldn't view this before buying. Now, I'm getting the sticky tape out (again) to my old guide, and this one will be a gift to a Spain-in-five-days type I know.
3 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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The previous reviewer's guide was spot on. Sadly his comments on the Spain guide apply to the entire series. A decision seems to have been made to dumb down the Rough Guides, as if this will somehow boost sales.
Rough Guides used to be informative, opinionated and above all intelligent: now they are bland, written-by-comittee products that succeed in pleasing no-one (apart from, presumably, the bean-counters at Penguin). They also seem to have sacked the sub-ed department (who cares about semicolons anyway ?). If you want confirmation of the type of person who currently runs the series, have a look at the 'Meet the Team' video on their website: about as exciting as cold porridge. Would you want to travel with these people ?
Witty, informed, literate travel guides are now a thing of the past. We're going through the dark ages of travel guide writing: the owners of content don't understand the iPad age, and those who do understand electronic media don't have the content. When someone cracks this nut, dead-tree guides will be consigned to the dustbin. But it's a shame to see a once great series losing its raison d'être. Readers care about history, detail and educated opinion in a guide: the publishers, obviously, don't.
Rough Guides used to be packed with info on Byzantine frescos, obscure social history, informed interpretation of art and architecture, unknown hiking paths, concise political insights. Now they read like a cut & paste from the Facebook page of a dull teenager. You would have thought that Penguin would realise that their supposed target audience don't actually buy books.
So I agree with Derek Tunniciffe - hang on to your old edition: this new one is a huge leap backwards.
Rough Guides used to be informative, opinionated and above all intelligent: now they are bland, written-by-comittee products that succeed in pleasing no-one (apart from, presumably, the bean-counters at Penguin). They also seem to have sacked the sub-ed department (who cares about semicolons anyway ?). If you want confirmation of the type of person who currently runs the series, have a look at the 'Meet the Team' video on their website: about as exciting as cold porridge. Would you want to travel with these people ?
Witty, informed, literate travel guides are now a thing of the past. We're going through the dark ages of travel guide writing: the owners of content don't understand the iPad age, and those who do understand electronic media don't have the content. When someone cracks this nut, dead-tree guides will be consigned to the dustbin. But it's a shame to see a once great series losing its raison d'être. Readers care about history, detail and educated opinion in a guide: the publishers, obviously, don't.
Rough Guides used to be packed with info on Byzantine frescos, obscure social history, informed interpretation of art and architecture, unknown hiking paths, concise political insights. Now they read like a cut & paste from the Facebook page of a dull teenager. You would have thought that Penguin would realise that their supposed target audience don't actually buy books.
So I agree with Derek Tunniciffe - hang on to your old edition: this new one is a huge leap backwards.
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