The Truly Truly Best Ever Guide Book
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The Truly Truly Best Ever Guide Book
Have you discovered the Moleskine City Guide Books?
http://www.moleskines.com/moleskine-city-notebooks.html
These are a natural for Fodorites cause you create your own city guide. They are printed for selected cities with city and metro maps complete with overlays to customize. European conversions are included along with removable note pages and sticky notes.
The rest of the book (about 100 pages) are blank with tabs for customizing your own Guide Book. Copy or paste those Fodors recommendations.
It is a great size with an elastic closure and three page markers.
Checkout www.moleskinecity.com for blogs and articles.
No I don't hold stock in the company.
http://www.moleskines.com/moleskine-city-notebooks.html
These are a natural for Fodorites cause you create your own city guide. They are printed for selected cities with city and metro maps complete with overlays to customize. European conversions are included along with removable note pages and sticky notes.
The rest of the book (about 100 pages) are blank with tabs for customizing your own Guide Book. Copy or paste those Fodors recommendations.
It is a great size with an elastic closure and three page markers.
Checkout www.moleskinecity.com for blogs and articles.
No I don't hold stock in the company.
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My husband was telling me about them recently. He thinks they're great. Particularly the metro/subway part. A few years back he mentioned the need for a guide book that gave points of interest and restaurants/bars at each subway/el stop. These give you the opportunity to do your own, right?
Personally, I'd love to see someone do a book that lists decent restaurants according to interstate exits! But I suspect it'd take so long to do it that the info would be outdated by the time the book was published!
Anyway, I think the Moleskines are a great idea. Hope they do them for more and more cities.
Personally, I'd love to see someone do a book that lists decent restaurants according to interstate exits! But I suspect it'd take so long to do it that the info would be outdated by the time the book was published!

Anyway, I think the Moleskines are a great idea. Hope they do them for more and more cities.
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Won't pasting in more paper make the book even thicker?...
I'm trying out someone else's suggestion:
I'm putting all my notes by sections into one Word document, with a title page, table of contents, food glossary, blank pages in the back (for notes), the works. Then I'm using the "booklet" format, printing, and taking to Kinko's for binding. It will be a 8x5 size, about 50ish pages and will cost $4.99+tax. I'm making one for us and one for the other couple going with us.
I'm trying out someone else's suggestion:
I'm putting all my notes by sections into one Word document, with a title page, table of contents, food glossary, blank pages in the back (for notes), the works. Then I'm using the "booklet" format, printing, and taking to Kinko's for binding. It will be a 8x5 size, about 50ish pages and will cost $4.99+tax. I'm making one for us and one for the other couple going with us.
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CAPH - exactly.
We put one of the overlays on the arrondisement (Paris) map that we are staying in and then indicate with numbers the locations of the restaurants that we want to visit. In the written section we record the necessary information.
On another overlay we trace out a Degas walk marking the points of interest.
In the notes section, we would put reminders of restos, bars, museums, gardens, sites or whatever.
We will also record our observations for future trips.
Travelnut - I like that idea. I think this is a recurring book if you tend (like us) to revisit a particular place.
We put one of the overlays on the arrondisement (Paris) map that we are staying in and then indicate with numbers the locations of the restaurants that we want to visit. In the written section we record the necessary information.
On another overlay we trace out a Degas walk marking the points of interest.
In the notes section, we would put reminders of restos, bars, museums, gardens, sites or whatever.
We will also record our observations for future trips.
Travelnut - I like that idea. I think this is a recurring book if you tend (like us) to revisit a particular place.
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That would be Paris and Amsterdam for us... I have a 3-ring binder for each of those... but mostly (for those 2 places) I just work off an Excel matrix (Place, Addr, Metro, Hours...). I just 'code' a column for the places we'll want, and resort it to print.
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