Publishers of
travel guidebooks for those on a
shoe-string budget, or at least for the
demographic who
should be on a shoe-string budget. The
Let's Go Guide to Europe is easily found on many
North American students'
bookshelves, often littered with
post-it notes and jotted-down
plans concerning a much-dreamed-about
grand tour of
Europe*, just like in
A Room with a View.
Guides are
available for large areas (Europe), countries (
Belgium), and in some cases, cities (uh...
city in Belgium). Generally, they're quite
informative and
certainly easy to use. Personally, I
vowed never to touch them again after I read up on my
home city and discovered that they'd listed
the Brunny as a top
night spot for
travellers. Let's Go travel guides are written
exclusively by
Harvard students - which means if you want to go where the
Harvard students go, buy their books. If you want to avoid them, try
Lonely Planet or
The Rough Guide instead.
*As Eddie Izzard says: "Europe is where the history comes from."