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Whether it's planning for exploring art galleries and museums in Florence or Prague, or discovering backroads practically in your own backyard, some guidance is in order.

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Anne Garber's Cheap Eats Vancouver **** 1/2
ISBN:0-9695187-9-X
Author:Anne Garber & John T.D. Keyes
Publisher:Serious Publishing, $14.95 (CAD),
BC's best-read restaurant critic's favourite ma-and-pa joints, vegetarian cafes, diners, greasy spoons, coffee shops, lunch counters, truck stops, cafeterias and other great eateries. [More]

Exploring Ethnic Vancouver ****
ISBN: 0-9695187-8-1
Author: Anne Garber, John T.D. Keyes & Lorraine Gannon
Publisher: Serious Publishing, $14.95 (CAD), 264 pp, trade paper
Recommended and off-the-beaten-track "tastes" of the many ethnic communities that make up Vancouver's cultural mosaic -- food, fairs, films, shopping and events. List price $14.95. Available at a direct-from-publisher price that is drastically reduced! [More]

Eyewitness Travel London (Keyes review) *****
Says reviewer John Keyes: "If I could take myself back in time and be a first-timer to London again, this is the book I would take. . ." [More]

Eyewitness Travel Paris (Keyes review) *****
Like most of the books in this series, Eyewitness's Paris guide is so visually brilliant that visiting the city itself is almost an anti-climactic experience. [More]

Free Travel Guides & Directories *
Our ever-growing list. Please write to us, if you'd like your travel guide to be included. [More]

Museums and Galleries of Paris ****
The Insight Guides people have launched a new series dedicated to the great museums and galleries of the world's great cities, and the inaugural edition rightly focuses on Paris. [More]

Sybaritic Scotland **** 1/2
For years, if you asked someone what Scotland is most famous for, they would probably say Scotch. And until recently, they were right. But now Scotland is leading the market in another kind of pleasure that makes you feel all warm and tingly inside. [More]

The Okazu Guide - Oh, 'Cause You Hungry! *****
Introducing THE OKAZU GUIDE, a lively, first-ever look at Oahu's Mom-and-Pop Ozakuyas [More]

The Two Best Travel Guides (Keyes overview) *
I've done my fair share of globe-trotting, and for my money the two best guidebook series for major cities are the ones by the Time Out people and the ones under the Eyewitness Travel imprint of the Dorling Kindersley publishers. [More]

Time Out London (Keyes review) *****
"The editorial filter has worked the material into a homogenous whole, albeit a lively, occasionally funny whole, written by people you know in your bones are smart, observant and have a sense of context," says reviewer John T.D. Keyes [More]

Time Out Paris (Keyes review) *****
Writes reviewer John T.D. Keyes: "There is stylish prose and up-to-date material from front cover to back, even though much of the city doesn't change from century to century." [More]

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Foster Walker review *
What a great find: The good news is that you can shop there, too! [More]

Giants and behemoths: Abebooks *
Some months ago I wrote a column wondering why the Internet, which was supposed to foster competitiveness, is being dominated by behemoths with few or no competitors - Amazon, eBay and Google, for example. [More]

Paris Arrondissement Maps: Never get lost in Paris again *
In a world where virtually nothing of any real value is free anymore, let us praise the Paris tourism office for offering its arrondissement maps . . . free! [More]

The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas *****
ISBN:1556228880
Author:Sophia Dembling
Publisher:Republic of Texas Press, $17.95 (USD)
I read Sophie Dembling’s travel columns religiously even before I was a travel-writer. The best tip I ever got about traveling light came from her. She said when traveling, she wears her socks one side out the first day, and then turns them inside out the next day. Tips like this can cut your underwear usage in half. So the first time I met Sophie, I looked discreetly at her socks. Was it day one or day two, I wondered. [More]

Victoria's Best Bargains *** 1/2
ISBN:0-9695187-4-9
Author:Anne Garber & John T.D. Keyes
Publisher:Serious Publishing, $10.95 (CAD), 230 pp, trade paper
Victoria can be frightfully expensive, which is why Victoria's Best Bargains should be in everyone's pocket. [More]