Lu-Gerda's Travels

  Last month I wrote a book review and I enjoyed it.   Today I want to share some more of my favourite travel books.   DK Eyewitness Travel Guides I bought my first travel guide in 2008. I was planning a trip with my friend Lelanie to London and Europe.   While planning the trip I bought the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe and I paid R 282.00 for it.   Except for my university textbooks, this was the most expensive book I have ever bought for myself.    We were doing a Contiki Tour and visited 7 countries.   I studied the information in guide the about the cities we would visit.    I made lists of places I want to see and then looked for more information about them.   In the end I did not take the guide with me (the 800 pages was just to heavy to carry along) but packed all my lists to use.  At Departures at Cape Town Airport in 2008 My second guide was for the same trip.   The Eyewitness Trave...

Last week I was browsing the travel guides at the bookstore when this book caught my eye.  I loved it and decided to share it with you. Walking Cape Town by John Muir We love visiting Cape Town. It is a 4-hour drive from Mossel Bay and we have family there.   It is perfect for a weekend.   And with the information in this book I see many weekends exploring Cape Town and surrounding areas. Table Mountain (2009) The book has 24 easy walks and 9 drives around this beautiful city.   Each walk has a detailed map, useful information, refreshment suggestions and information about the sites along the route.   There are distance vary between 2 km and 6 km.   But for a longer walk I would do some of them together (like the 2-km Company gardens and the 2-km Queen Victoria Street walk)   Castle of Good Hope (2005) The book is easy to read and follow with a good amount of pictures and interesting facts about the historical sites in t...