| Paris Made Easy: The Best Walks and Sights of Paris (Open Road Travel Guides) | 
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Sales Rank: 638106
Category: Book
Author: Andy Herbach
Publisher: Open Road
Studio: Open Road
Manufacturer: Open Road
Label: Open Road
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4 x 0.2
ISBN: 1593600631
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781593600631
ASIN: 1593600631
Publication Date: May 23, 2006
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Book Description
Like Open Road's series of foreign language menu-readers, our new compact, lightweight travel guides are for those travelers who already know where they're staying and don't want to lug around a huge book during the day. With a sprinkling of restaurant selections arranged by neighborhood, our Made Easy series focuses on taking readers to the best, as well as the most different and unusual, sights and walking tours in each city. Tuck this guide into your pocket and head out for a great day of sightseeing: you'll have over 100 sights at your fingertips (from the popular Eiffel Tower to the strange Counterfeit Museum!), with insider tips on where to stop at a cafe, where to eat, interesting shops, and beautiful walks along the Seine or through the famed Latin Quarter. Attractive design features a second color on the inside.
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 Seeing Paris While Walking April 15, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I prefer guidebooks that aren't just mammoth listings of everything (hotels, restaurants, sights). This compact book hits the target with its highlights and its walking tours.
You get directions, maps and commentary. Boxed notes give relevance to much that you would unknowingly pass by. Boxed in sage green are SHOPPING TIPS and ENTERTAINMENT TIPS while RESTAURANT TIPS are boxed in dark green. This covers the sights on the Island and the 20 Arrondissements plus some further afield (Versailles, Disneyland Paris, etc.).
The second part of the book details walks to take. Try the Islands walk, the Left Bank walk, the Marais walk, the major sights walk, the Montmartre walk, or some culinary walks. Sage green boxes highlight DETOURS to catch a special sight.
I wish I'd had this on my first visit to Paris which I found quite expensive and a little overwhelming.
 its ok March 9, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Its ok...I didn't really use it b/c I did a lot of sightseeing and this doesnt include all of them. Its nice for ppl who are in paris for 3 days and wanna see the basic things. Perfect size.
Truth in Labeling October 10, 2005
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
This pocket size guide really does make a trip tp Paris easy. The details by Arrondissement(district/neighborhoods)are very useful. The restaurant/Bistro tips were uniformly solid. The walks were easy to navigate and enriched strolling through Paris.The most useful guide to Paris I have seen.
A minor gripe: a sugested list of French phrases for the non-French speaker could use a phonetic guide.
THE guide to pack April 26, 2005
40 out of 40 found this review helpful
I picked up Paris Made Easy just before a return trip to the City of Light, and I wish I'd had it the first time around! The title says it all: the content of this book, the way it's organized, and even its size made it the one guide I used day in and day out.
Do yourself a favor and leave the heavy guidebooks with the glossy pictures at home. (You're going to be seeing all those sights in person, anyway, right?) Paris Made Easy has great info on restaurants, museums, shopping, walks -- and not only the famous sights, but also some obscure yet really fun destinations that you might never discover otherwise. Good maps, too. Because it's all organized by neighborhood (arrondissement) in a compact format, I could just drop the guide in my purse, start wandering, and pull it out to find a place to eat or an interesting sight to see wherever I happened to end up. That freedom to explore made me feel much more like an insider and much less like a tourist.
The author's writing style is another plus: conversational, down-to-earth, and funny, but also very clear. (For example, I decided on the spur of the moment to venture outside Paris to visit Versailles, and a quick look at Paris Made Easy gave me such good instructions that I didn't even need to ask questions at the train station. In fact, I must have looked pretty confident, because people were asking me for directions!)
Check out the price of this book, too. With all the information you get, it's a real bargain. I can't recommend it enough!
Best of Paris September 27, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although this book is out of print, the walks found in Paris Made Easy have been expanded and you can find them in "Open Road's Best of Paris" by Andy Herbach. It's available on amazon. "Open Road's Best of Paris" gives readers a small number of great choices and itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week and two-week trips to Paris and environs. Readers will find a variety of plans grouped around three categories: Museums, Art and Architecture; Eating, drinking, shopping and relaxing; and Offbeat and off-the-beaten path. "Best of Paris" offers unique ideas such as "A Day at a Cooking School and Wine Tasting" and a "Da Vinci Code" walking tour!
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