The better mobile travel guides, like Fodor's iPhone City Guides ($6, for various locales), Lonely Planet's Compass Guides ($5 on Android devices, for 24 cities) and Condé Nast's Traveller series ($6, for Apple devices, covering four destinations), may be great for generating ideas and, at times, finding attractions or restaurants while out and about, but they are still harder to use than a book.
The day trips, which run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., promise to explore landmark and off-the-beaten track locales in itineraries designed by Lonely Planet authors and led by both a tour guide and a photo instructor.
Even worse are the Web sites and books filled with inspirational tips on how to keep from feeling lonely when you are by yourself in an exotic locale, surrounded by staggeringly beautiful architecture, delicious aromas of local food and the tinkle of distant temple gongs.
Whether painting the White or Green mountains, the Catskills, or a lonely strip of Atlantic shoreline at Newport, Rhode Island, he conveyed a strong sense of locale through his careful observation of detail and his deep sensitivity to the nuances of atmosphere.
The writers Marianne Wiggins, Jilly Cooper, and Pico Iyer have used Lonely Planet guides to immerse themselves in the feel of a far-off locale for novels set in, respectively, Cameroon, Colombia, and Iran.
The locale is a "Hospital for the Criminally Insane", situated on a small island where there is conveniently an old military fort and a lonely lighthouse.
locale - A Java Locale object.
