Which is the best tour guide? None?

"Stagshrine" <Stagshrine@nadir.com> writes:


Being in my pocket, for starters. I've just been for a long weekend
in Barcelona, using _Le guide du routard_, and I must say the guide
was one of the better EUR 11.90 I've spent in my touriste career.
Specifically:

* I found a hotel with single rooms for EUR 30.00: I couldn't find
anything remotely comparable on the web.

* The restaurant recommendations were selective, opinionated and
accurate.

* There was a section on the regional cuisine, and a brief menu guide
(and mini-phrasebook section, of which I used slightly more than
none).

* The stuff on the attractions was good, too: they mark them with 1 to
3 routard symbols.

* I didn't waste any of my short holiday in (or looking for) interweb
cafes.

* It is small and light: it spent the whole time in my pocket.

Frankly, websites for touristes have impressed me very little over the
years, and surfing around this time did not show them to have
improved. And the Internet won't fit in my pocket.


Usenet still isn't the Web, of course.

Des