Book Nook: The Rough Guide to Germany

I've traveled to Germany several times, but I'm always looking for new ideas for my next trip. So I was excited to get a chance to review a travel guide for Germany from Rough Guides. This guide was extremely comprehensive, but still not too overwhelming. It's up front and detailed, giving readers a good picture of what to expect in each area. 

I checked a bunch of places that I've been, especially on our most recent trip. Everything I would have expected to know about those places was there, and the only things that would be different would just be updates from places I haven't been to in many years. Then I had fun checking out places I haven't been but want to go to on our next trip (hopefully next summer). I was especially intrigued with the Saxon Switzerland area, because that's a place I've never been but it's also a place my husband would love to go.

The size of this guide makes it easy to bring along on trips and check out details at night. There are advantages to using a book - no wifi necessary, and sometimes you can discover a lot more things by flipping through pages than when you go directly to a particular attraction's website. Because the book is organized by area, it's easy to discover a lot of nearby attractions.

Since 1982, Rough Guides have sold more than 30 million books and their publication list includes more than 260 travel guides to more than 120 destinations, country and city guides, pocket guides, award-winning website and a new design for the 2018 titles. Rough Guides is a leading travel publisher known for its “tell it like it is” attitude, accurate, up-to-date content and authoritative contemporary writing. They offer more of a practical edge – more attention to on-the-ground information like getting around and accommodation that’s useful when you’re out on the road traveling. Their writers and researchers are always out in the field, checking out the latest openings and finding the road less traveled, to distinguish the hotspots from the not-spots.

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Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-color guide books, with almost 50 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. Insight publishes close to 400 full-color print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, eBooks and mobile apps to meet different travelers’ needs, from longer immersive guides to countries and regions, to Experience city guides designed to inspire off-the-beaten track adventures.

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