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Moleskine City Guides
When I visited Amsterdam, I bought a sketchbook, and while I was in the city, I shoved everything in there, from ticket stubs, to brochures, to notes about destinations. Although it wasn't a moleskin -- and wasn't anywhere near as pretty as some moleskins I've seen -- it served its purpose, and it's fun to look at now.
Moleskine, makers of the ubiquitous travel journals, recently introduced City Guides. Sort of a make-yer-own guidebook, Moleskine's City Guides are an excellent, stylish way of organizing a trip -- before or after you go. Each 3½" x 5½" book comes with numerous maps of the city; an alphabetical street index; 228 pages (76 of which are blank); 32 removable sheets for exchanging email addresses with wild-eyed hostelers; 12 translucent sticky sheets, to overlay and re-position, so you can trace your route; an inside accordion pocket; and three ribbon place-markers.
Currently, the series includes Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, and Wien. During 2007, the series will expand to include Boston, New York, San Fran, D.C., Chicago, LA, Montreal, and Seattle. With one of these $17 City Guides, all you need is a translator, some coffee, and a sharp pencil, and you'll have your own, customized travel guide in no time.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Claudia Feb 27th 2007 5:57AM
If you love the City Guides, you will go grazy for moleskinecity.com!
It's a new blog dedicated to the city, its travellers, residents and independent and free thinking people.
Moleskinecity.com shows, reflects and tells new urban lifestyles, uncommon city landscapes, literary suggestions, technology and movement, expressions of the language, art and web-art, your personal sense of place and your unique city experiences.
It is connected to the Moleskine City Notebooks, the first guide you write yourself.
There is a blog for each city notebook, featuring updates, curiosities, traveller experiences and links to other blogs and communities.
Moleskinecity.com aggregates news from the city blogs and contains also photo galleries and editorial sections:
> Focus On: weekly highlights specific subjects of interest posted on the city blogs.
> Urban Interviews: features interviews to the new protagonists of the city style and the urban panorama.
> Words & Writers: tells the cities, their stories and secrets through the pages of the books.
The first blogs, London, Paris, Rome and Milan are now on line, New York and the other city blogs will be available throughout 2007.
Check it out!
Claudia