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Barcelona guide book reviewsThis page has a review of the best Barcelona guide books and other books that you would find useful for a trip to Barcelona. We highly recommend taking a quality guide book with you on your trip. Homage
to Barcelona - History of Barcelona written by a novelist Specialist
Barcelona guide Book to eating and drinking
We all really enjoy going out to experience a new city's culinary delights, unique bars and café culture. Whilst the general Barcelona guide books recommended on this page provide a good review of places to eat, they do not contain anywhere near the same level of detail as this book. In total there are over 300 restaurants, bars and cafe's reviewed by this guide- making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind for Barcelona. If you really want to find that romantic place to wine and dine someone special, or the perfect business dinner venue, or even just a non-touristy restaurant the locals frequent; this specialist barcelona guide book will be invaluable to you. Click to order "Time out" from Amazon if you live in UK or Europe Click to order from Amazon if you live in USA or Canada Lonely planet guide books always deliver great value for money and this book is no exception. It covers just about every subject on Barcelona in some depth. You'll also find a little history on many of the sites and attractions that make interesting reading. The map section at the back of the book is only really useful for general reference and not for navigating your way around the city - for this we would recommend the map reviewed further down the page. The book is around A5 size so it's easy to carry around, but not quite small enough to fit in a pocket. An excellent guide to Barcelona and highly recommended. Click to order from Amazon if you live in USA or Canada This guide book is packed
full of interesting, useful information and fully illustrated with
colour photos. It also includes some select ads of local restaurants,
hotels and business in Barcelona that are focused and relevant to
a visitor to the city. The book is around A5 size and easy to carry
around. The reference maps are reasonably comprehensive however
not loose leaf so you'll have to take the whole book with you. Many
articles also have accompanying web addresses which is useful if
you wish to do further research. This book is highly recommended Click to order Time out guide for USA and Canada If you're only in Barcelona
for a few days on holiday or business, this Barcelona guide book
is an excellent choice. It focuses on the Top 10 best restaurants,
bars, shops, attractions, etc. Packed with colour photos and maps,
it's a really useful and concise guide to the city when time is
short. This book is smaller and thinner than either the Lonely Planet
or Time Out guides, making it the most comfortable to carry round.
If you don't want an exhaustive guide, but just the essential "must
sees", this is the book for you. Click to order from Amazon if you live in USA or Canada Barcelona city map our top recommendation
Click here to order Map from Amazon if you live in UK or Europe Click to order from Amazon if you live in USA or Canada This Barcelona book is very different from your standard guide book. It does not give your tourist information but rather focuses on the history of Barcelona. It was written by professional novel writer who spent a number of years in Barcelona. He has thoroughly studied the history of the city and has written chapters in the book regarding how the city came to be, people who had a powerful influence on its development, the civil war, and important architects and artists who spent time in Barcelona. What makes this book distinct is the facts have been written into a story-type format that makes this book compelling reading. Here
are a few of the chapters: The book also gives detailed information and a description of the development of Catalan culture. This book is a pleasure to read and highly recommended Click to order from Amazon if you live in UK or Europe For all our USA and Canadian site visitors this book is currently out of print in the USA Amazon so you'll need to order from the European Amazon link given above. Bar Secrets Barcelona
Guide books aren't´t exactly the most convenient thing to be lugging around when you are on holiday, especially when you are going out for the night to a bar. Now there is an ingenious solution with the Bar Secrets Deck of Cards. In this pack you have 52 of Barcelona´s bars reviewed, each review is on a card the same size as a standard playing card. On the front is a description and photo of the Bar and on the reverse a map of the Bar´s location. What is handy about this pack is you can take out a selection of cards and put them neatly in your wallet (or purse) for the evening. No bulky books to lug around for the evening. This is a handy guide to have if you enjoy discovering new bars in Barcelona. Bar Secrets Barcelona (Deck of Secrets) How to speak Basic Spanish in just a few days.There are 2 other books which I highly recommend you take a look at if you would like to quickly learn basic Spanish in just a few days. These two books are truly amazing and very entertaining and rewarding to read. 1)
This book is
absolutely amazing. It was written by a memory expert and claims
that within a few days study you would have remembered all the main
keywords needed for a tourist visit - I bought this book myself
and it really is impressive. Click here to order this book from Amazon if you live in USA or Canada 2)
This book is even more impressive because you don’t even have to remember anything! This book shows you all the words that are similar between English and Spanish and almost instantly gives you a working vocabulary of several thousand words in Spanish. e.g. did you know that many words in English that end in "tion" end in "cion" in Spanish? e.g. operation = operacion , instruction – instruccion , correction, correccion etc - with this one rule alone you have already several hundred words under your belt. Another rule is words ending in “ty” in English end in “dad” in Spanish e.g. activity – actividad, nationality – nacionalidad , university– Universidad etc. The book lists them all and it’s really great fun to build your vocabulary like this in next to no time – no memorizing required! So here is a little test for you. What would be the words in Spanish for the following words in English: authority, celebrity, compatibility, cruelty, mortality, intensity, individuality, unity, variety, velocity, co-operation, obligation, conversation, nation, action. – see how easy it can be! The book goes through about 30 rules like this and gives you a working vocabulary of 2,000 words in a very short time. Of course you may not be able to use all these words but it does give you a very quick and easy way to build a basic vocabulary in Spanish. Click here to order this book from Amazon if you live in UK or Europe Click here to order this book from Amazon USA and Canada Even if you can speak just a few words and phrases in Spanish you will get much better service if you are seen to be making an effort to communicate in a person's mother tongue. You don't have to say a lot simple things like "Please" - "Por Favor" and "Thank you" - "Gracias" "The bill please" - "La Cuenta por favor" etc will go a long way to showing respect for the people here. One thing I really like about the Spanish people is their tolerant and easy going attitude towards tourist who are not able to speak Spanish. I've used this Spanish language training CD myself and was very impressed by the quality of this product. It's a fun way to learn the language and includes a pronunciation and phonetic checker to make sure that you are pronouncing the words correctly. Lots of pictures and videos with Spanish speakers, games, crosswords and pronunciation tests makes this product excellent for developing your Spanish. Click here to read the Amazon Review
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