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Northern Portugal: Car Tours and Walks (Landscapes) (Paperback)

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Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Sunflower Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (15 Mar 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1856913090
ISBN-13: 978-1856913096
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 10 x 1 cm

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Car touring and walking guide. Readership: visitors to the Northern Portugal ot the Porto area, especially walkers and those touring by car

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2.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book, but not reliable in detail, 6 Jul 2007

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This is a beautifully produced little book with excellent pictures and interesting text. It covers northwestern Portugal - the vinho verde country and the western half of the mountainous Peneda-Ger�s national park, one of Europe's last wilderness areas, plus a bit about Porto and the Douro. I used this book when I visited the area in May 2007. As a guide for motor tours it can be recommended. Three tours are described - of course they cover only a selection of places in this extensive and beautiful area, but the selection is judicious and the tours are worthwhile. Coverage of accommodation is very limited, though. And the small format means that the fold-out road map lacks something in detail - it's useful nevertheless, being more accurate than the Michelin road map of the region in several places.

As a guide for walking, I found it less helpful. There was little evidence of footpath maintenance or waymarking by the Peneda-Ger�s national park authority. Many of the paths are overgrown, and some landmarks have disappeared. The Portuguese have not yet taken to mountain walking in a big way, and there are few tourists in this region, outside Porto - so the paths are very little walked. The good news is that you will probably not see another walker. The bad news is that you may not be able to find the paths described either. The walks in the book originated in the 1980s, and although they have been revised, including some updating for the 2007 edition, a lot of things have changed and the updating is not thorough, to judge from my experience.

The walk descriptions seem precise and detailed at first reading, but when you try to use them you will wish that they were more so. When the authors say "the path soon becomes clear" it would be extremely helpful to know if this means in 10m, in 100m or in 500m... A major fault is that no map references are given - it is standard practice in modern walk descriptions to give references, and now that walkers are likely to carry GPS sensors they are essential. Distances between points are not given either - instead, walking times are provided, and these are based on the authors' own walking speed - readers are expected to correct these to their own walking pace. This outmoded method still has its adherents, but it can hardly be recommended today.

The publishers provide an on-line update service. This is not as helpful as it sounds, because the updates are largely provided by users who take the trouble to write in. Such users are very few. Sometimes the authors do provide new information, but it is clear that they are not re-walking the routes on a systematic basis, since some landmarks shown on their maps have completely disappeared. If you wish to do some mountain walking in this wonderful area, you should expect route-finding to be difficult.

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