Quotes About Guidebook

sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.

I decided to hike up to Cerro Potosí, the hill above the town, beyond Tangamanga Park. The guidebook recommended good shoes, water, and long pants against the agave lechuguilla—thorny agave. I started on a cool morning, setting out on the trail

You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you can stumble upon the city's hidden gems. The architecture and the beauty of some of the buildings is also wonderful.

Peltedverse Guidebook is available through me; you can get it by signing up for my mailing list (from my website), by jumping on my Patreon, or by emailing me directly (haikujaguar at gmail).

Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

History becomes a guidebook for geopolitics.

I saw this ad in the paper, "Safe Sex. Get Paid. Men 18 to 40." Sounds like the kind of scam I go for. So I call 'em up, and it's a guidebook to sperm banks. And I think: Why not get paid? After all, I've done charity work for so long.