Lukes

At the beginning of September, I'm going to Australia to visit some friends
in Sydney and, a few weeks later, will fly to Melbourne to spend 4 days
exploring on my own.

I was thinking of getting separate guide books for Sydney and Melbourne
rather than a single books that covers all of Australia -- both because
they're more portable and because I thought that they'd be more detailed. Is
this a reasonable way of doing things? If so, has anyone got any
recommendations? There seem to be loads of publishers, but is it's hard to
tell which I should get.

TIA

Luke

Daniel Bowen

"LukeS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > At the beginning of September, I'm going to Australia to visit some
friends
    > in Sydney and, a few weeks later, will fly to Melbourne to spend 4 days
    > exploring on my own.
    > I was thinking of getting separate guide books for Sydney and Melbourne
    > rather than a single books that covers all of Australia -- both because
    > they're more portable and because I thought that they'd be more detailed.
Is
    > this a reasonable way of doing things? If so, has anyone got any
    > recommendations? There seem to be loads of publishers, but is it's hard to
    > tell which I should get.

Not specifically Melbourne, but I like Lonely Planet, have found them over
the years to be quite accurate, and I like the style. They're based in
Australia, so hopefully their guidebooks for Australian cities should be up
to scratch!

But probably the best thing you can do is go to a bookshop and spend some
time browsing, work out which books you like the best.


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
dbowen at custard dot net dot au

Richard

"Daniel Bowen" <[email protected]> wrote in
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    > "LukeS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> At the beginning of September, I'm going to Australia to visit some
    > friends
    >> in Sydney and, a few weeks later, will fly to Melbourne to spend 4
    >> days exploring on my own.
    >> I was thinking of getting separate guide books for Sydney and
    >> Melbourne rather than a single books that covers all of Australia --
    >> both because they're more portable and because I thought that they'd
    >> be more detailed.
    > Is
    >> this a reasonable way of doing things? If so, has anyone got any
    >> recommendations? There seem to be loads of publishers, but is it's
    >> hard to tell which I should get.
    >
    > Not specifically Melbourne, but I like Lonely Planet, have found them
    > over the years to be quite accurate, and I like the style. They're
    > based in Australia, so hopefully their guidebooks for Australian
    > cities should be up to scratch!
    >
    > But probably the best thing you can do is go to a bookshop and spend
    > some time browsing, work out which books you like the best.
    >
    >
    > Daniel

I second Daniel's suggestion. We're going in February, and I've got all
of the Lonely Planet Australian state guides (Victoria, NSW, ...).

While the Sydney and Melbourne guides might be enough for you, if you are
planning to get out of town for a bit (which you should certainly do),
then I'd get the NSW and Victoria guides, which also have lots of info
about the respective capitals.

Richard