The starting point is of course Lonely Planet. Before advancing much on this foray I borrowed a somewhat ancient copy from the Queanbeyan Library and it seemed entirely adequate. Our friends used the (unfortunately no longer available) Borders Library to suss out the latest edition but did purchase one!
Frances searched the net for an alternative and came across a JPM Guide as the only alternative. So we got it - very cheaply and were astonished to find how small it is. Literally pocket sized (64 x A6 pages), but it did seem to cover the main stuff.
Somewhat later we were chatting with a neighbour and found her daughter writes guides for the Bradt imprint, with whom we were not familiar. They do a guide for Sri Lanka but being a cheapskate I thought I would check prices on Amazon before ordering. There was one review there which was very negative. On looking up the reviewers profile he seemed to be a serial whinger: I wondered if he was related to Philippe from the Jetlag Travel guide series? Reverting to the Bradt site they offered quite a chunk of the general material for on-line browsing and it seemed quite reasonable. So some funds have been invested, through Amazon because they were as usual a lot cheaper.
So I think Rob and Carol will take their LP and we will take the Bradt version. Feedback will be included at sometime after we return.
No comments:
Post a Comment