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City Walks: London—50 Adventures on Foot
by Craig Taylor
Useful travel guide in a unique format
To really know a city, one has to walk its streets. This is especially true of London, where it seems that every second building has a plaque noting that the likes of Samuel Johnson or Charles Dickens had lived there or that some important event in the city’s long history occurred on that site.
City Walks: London—50 Adventures on Foot is the latest in a series that has included similar publications for San Francisco, Paris and New York. City Walks is an interesting concept in that it is not actually a book, but a deck of cards. Each of the 50 cards in this set contains a map of a section of London with a route traced out. On the other side of the card is concise text that gives walking directions and suggests various sites, stores, restaurants, museums, etc. to visit along the way. Each walk begins and ends at a stop on London’s Underground.
City Walks is for the independent tourist who likes to explore a place without the restrictions of an escorted tour. This, of course, means extra preparation work on the part of the traveler, but for many people that is part of the fun of going to a new city. While the City Walks cards facilitate such homework, they are not meant to replace guidebooks such as Fodor’s and Frommer’s, which contain more detailed information than these cards can hold. Rather, these cards provide reasonable plans for walks and allow the traveler to leave the bulky guidebook back at the hotel. The box provided for storing the cards also contains a separate multi-panel card with a short introduction and an overview map of London with numbered red dots indicating areas by the various walks.
Pick a card, any card—and start walking.
Title: City Walks: London—50 Adventures on Foot
Author: Craig Taylor
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811845621
Review written by: William Keogan
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