Indie travel guides - pipe dream or way of the future?

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Oddsocks, I looked at the sites you mentioned and http://www.balkanology.com/ is an attractive site but it doesn't seem to contain any specific hotel or restaurant listings. I also like the design of http://www.outsideprague.com/ but it's listings are very limited and I suspect they're all related to Outside Prague's owner in some way. Sites like this are great to peruse while you're planning a trip but they don't eliminate the need for a printed guidebook. I haven't seen one yet that does. Even Lonely Planet's famous Thorn Tree only provides many snippets of information - you still have to but the printed guidebook if you want to see the full picture. Of course, Lonely Planet planned it that way.

12-12-2007 @ 6:05PM

Oddsocks said...

Poets Corner hostel in Olomouc is very closely related to Outside Prague's owner but that's it as far as I know, (and I'm in a fairly good position to know).

Great collection of articles you have linked from your author page on southpacific.org, by the way.

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