bennison@turtle.DEC (04/07/84)
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As of Spring, 1983, there was no Michelin (Green) Guide to England.
There is however a Green guide to London, which I recommend very much.
For England we found no one guide satisfactory, so we ended up taking
three:
(1) the BLUE GUIDE, about 2 inches thick and, as mentioned by someone
else, containing everything you ever wanted to know about things
to see in England, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE. It's the "whole lot more"
that's the problem. It's very hard to use this guide to decide
what you want to do in your precious days or weeks there. There's
just too much information. On the plus side, once you are where you
decided you wanted to go, it contains lots of good information about
that place. This one wins the award for how to write in a boring way
about interesting things.
(2) BAEDEKERS BRITAIN, overweight for what it contains because of the heavy
paper used, lots of glossy photos. We mainly took this one because
we had bought it before number 3 and were renting a car the whole time
so the extra weight didn't bother us. Some of the town or cathedral
layouts were superior to those in 1 or 3.
(3) AA (Britain's AAA) Where to Go in Britain, probably the most
useful of the guides we took for planning travel strategy, lots of
glossy photos and historical notes, good organization and use of maps.
This is a very pretty book that I still enjoy thumbing through. It
does not have a rating system a la Michelin.
Vick Bennison
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