“Tears of indignation came to Lucy’s eyes partly because Miss Lavish had jilted her, partly because she had taken her Baedeker. How could she find her way home? How could she find her way about Santa Croce?… She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic about monuments of uncertain authorship or date. ” (E.M Forster ‘A Room With a View’, 1908)
GREENER DESKTOP: After more than 100 years as the tourist’s essential companion, are the days of the travel guidebook numbered? Australian Kimble Young, who recently took a road trip through Europe aided only by his Nokia smartphone, certainly thinks so.
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[...] guidebook is as indispensable as it once was. In October, Australian blogger Kimble Young argued that the brick-like resource was facing imminent extinction. Instead of lugging 1000 pages of [...]