New flashcards made by a Princeton, N.J., company, Lingolook (www.lingolook.net), hope to do away with the panic of flipping through guidebooks to find the phrase for "Where's the airport?" The passport-size, double-sided and illustrated flashcards feature basic words instead of long phrases, and are connected with a button in one corner so that they fan out for easy access.
Ask locals or check guidebooks to find the best spots that aren't too full of other swimmers.
Streatham (or St Reatham, as aspirational locals increasingly have it) is a surprising "off-guidebook" place to find a decent drink, and The Earl Ferrers is among London's finest "local" pubs.
A fake passport and guidebook to Rhodesia found on Mr. Ray, curious artifacts for an unemployed ex-convict supposedly working solo.
Medieval guidebooks highlighted where to find saint's relics and how to gain indulgences at various sites.
With the shift of the antiquarian book trade to the Internet, 19th- and early 20th-century guidebooks are easy to find through sources like bookfinder.com and abe.com.com
Good guidebooks are hard to find, but two that offer useful information and that are readily available are "Lonely Planet India" and "Let's Go India".
Most visitors need a guidebook to get their bearings.
In the first inning of his first career postseason start, Detroit's Max Scherzer needed a compass, guidebook or GPS system to find the strike zone.
When I discovered a treehouse at one of the B&Bs I reviewed for our guidebook series, I resolved to find more yurts, Gypsy caravans, shepherd's huts, safari tents and any other eccentric and beautiful dwellings, and encourage B&B and hotel owners to build them.
