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The Rough Guide to Sicily (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

by Robert Andrews (Author), Jules Brown (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 520 pages
  • Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd; 5th Revised edition edition (28 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1858288746
  • ISBN-13: 978-1858288741
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 424,366 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Offering details of all the sights of Sicily, from the mosaics of Monreale and the temples of Argrigento to bustling markets in Palermo, this guide also includes reviews of hotels and restaurants for every budget and region of the island. It also includes information on mountain hikes.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Must have been commissioned by the Vatican, 26 May 2004
I have to say I am a bit surprised about the positive ratings this book has received as I would class it mediocre. They say that a guide book often tells you more about the person that has written it than about the place itself and this is certainly true here.
I bought the Rough Guide to Sicily because I had previously used a Rough Guide on another one of my travels and had found it very helpful. Unfortunately this one turned out to be out-of-date (every single hotel mentioned in the book happened to be in the next highest price category) and lacked a lot of important information. The author seems to have an unhealthy interest in churches above everything else. There are, of course, some very interesting churches in Sicily such as the Norman one in Monreale, echoing the colourful history of the island, however, I found it rather perplexing that the writer felt the need to describe what seems like every single little backyard chapel that has ever been built in Sicily, which is fairly useless for the average cultured traveller. As a result of the author's devoting far to many lines to matters of theology, the reader misses out on some vital information. For example, there's hardly a mention of Palermo's vibrant night life and the guidelines for finding affordable accommodation if you intend to stay for a bit longer are, at best, confusing. He simply fails to mention that the best way to find good, clean and central accommodation at a realistic price is to go to one of the local estate agents (none of which are listed in his book but that are of invaluable help especially in the summer when there a lot of empty flats due to locals/students staying with their families outside of Palermo).
The beaches are not very well described either (if at all) and I found my two favourite ones by pure chance (a tiny one in a nature reserve further up Mondello- there's is a footpath leading to it, just keep going straight for about 10 mins- and another larger one close to Agrigento in a town called Porto d'Empedocle where you can also hire beach huts in the summer).
I often found myself putting the book away and asking the (genuinely friendly) locals for advice and as a result only consulted the book a couple of times during my three month stay in Sicily. Admittedly, the information on public transport proved quite useful and if you can't find any other guide book, this one is better than none.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars UP-TO-DATE; INDISPENSIBLE; USER-FRIENDLY ; ENTERTAINING;, 22 Sep 1999
By Vivien Lee Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sicily (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
My husband and I were in Sicily for the first time in early September, 1999 and the Rough Guide was with us all the way. Not being able to speak a word of Italian, we found the Sicilian food terms extremely useful. Also, our trip to Stromboli was made easier by the information on ferries and hydrofols and it was a relief to know that we could put our rented car in a garage. We are definitely planning to go back to Sicily with our chatty and entertaining travelling companion.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars This deserved no star! Travel in light, 11 Dec 2006
By A. Medhi "Arjuneration" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Sicily - Edition 6 (Paperback)
This is THE WORST guide book in the world. Local people of Sicily seem to be the best guides for me. I spent a week in Sicily and every place I visited I would refer to this book. But all these pompous authors wrote were sarcastic and frankly insulting to Sicily. This guide completely avoids how beautiful the Aoelian Islands are, where each island is different and diverse and some with living volcanoes. The only benefit I got from this book was when I was quoting it with locals I met on my travels and at laugh how bad this book really is. Seriously, you can travel to Sicily armed with just a map and phrase book. I wished I did because this rough guide was heavy!
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