Jules Brown

Not the worst travel book I've ever read, but it was more like a holiday diary than a real adventure - as the author is the first to admit. The humour sometimes works, sometimes doesn't - the tone is decidedly jaunty - but the chapters on some of the less well-known destinations, such as Bratislava, work well.

The Rough Guide series is a solid one, and although I haven't used this guide in the field, it seems to have plenty of useful information and easy to understand maps. Not a lot of pictures, but Google Image Search makes up for that.

[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2010/09/rough-guide-to-barcelona-by-jules-brown.ht... ]