Some of the guidebooks used during the trip. There really isn't a perfect guide, but some are better than others depending on the place you visit. Lonely Planet is the overall best for cities, methinks, while Eyewitness is pretty good for less urbanite areas(as long as you have another decent map to get to those ulu spots!) as it has nice birdseye's drawings and photos. The Rough Guide was surprisingly useful and very detailed although the layout's kinda drab.
And there was one other book companion which I was glad to have brought along:
Read the book twice, front-to-back, during the trip. Forward Scout had sent intelligence ahead of time that the moo flight to Madrid was long, not to mention inflight-entertainment-free. I grabbed the book off "the shelf of yet-unread books", minutes before heading for the aiport (which was quite fortuitous indeed, since there were very many yet-unread-books on the aforementioned shelf). Well, I think it did go a long way to prevent this holiday from becoming another spiritual vacation, as tends to happen when one was in a new place distracted with new sights and stuff.
Have you read any books that spoke uncannily of your mind and tells alarmingly of your heart? I have read only a few of those, and this was one of them.
More, later.
And there was one other book companion which I was glad to have brought along:
Read the book twice, front-to-back, during the trip. Forward Scout had sent intelligence ahead of time that the moo flight to Madrid was long, not to mention inflight-entertainment-free. I grabbed the book off "the shelf of yet-unread books", minutes before heading for the aiport (which was quite fortuitous indeed, since there were very many yet-unread-books on the aforementioned shelf). Well, I think it did go a long way to prevent this holiday from becoming another spiritual vacation, as tends to happen when one was in a new place distracted with new sights and stuff.Have you read any books that spoke uncannily of your mind and tells alarmingly of your heart? I have read only a few of those, and this was one of them.
More, later.
