Britain on Your Own (Second Edition)

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Summary: Helpful tips for trip planning
Review: Now in an updated and revised second edition, Dorothy Maroncelli's Britain On Your Own: A Guide For Single Mature Travelers, Western England And Wales Edition offers the over-50 vacationer or business traveler an ideal travel guide for adventures and experiences off the well-beaten path as it offers dozens of fascinating destination profiles. Helpful tips for trip planning range from finding a hub town to settle in for a few days, to changing currency, staying healthy and being safe. There is even a handy checklist for what to do before leaving home If you are over 50, going to be touring Britain, and favor comfort, novelty, and being on your own to explore historic English countrysides, then Dorothy Maroncelli's Britain On Your Own will prove an invaluable beginning for your trip of a lifetime!

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Summary: The traveling smart chapter is worth the price of admission!
Review: This book is a delightful resource for independent travelers planning a trip to Great Britain. The author starts with a design for solo (which works even if you're not traveling solo) travel to Britain, sandwiches the sites in western England and Wales in the middle, and for a grand finale, finishes with traveling smart information. She shares the 'how to' of establishing a hub town for taking day-trips to nearby places along with lodging and dining possibilities and the actual travel logistics. Suggestions are provided for planning your trip around your areas of special interest, such as walking, literature, history, etc., to help narrow your choices down when making your final decisions. The Traveling Smart chapter is a gem with traveling light information (the packing list is fantastic), lists to take with you and one to use at home prior to your departure, lodging, rail travel, American/British English, dollars and pounds, and restaurants. The author's note in the introduction advises that eastern England and Scotland will be included in a second book. I hope so. I'd certainly enjoy another good read/planning guide by this author!