![]() Those Crazy Germans! A Lighthearted Guide to Germany $15.99 For the inexperienced and experienced German traveler, Those Crazy Germans provides a light read about the cultural aspects of Germany that most don't know. I found many useful tips throughout the book that I wished I knew about when I've traveled there. The author did a great job of sharing tips while making the book easy to read and humorous. Here's a link to check it out yourself. Those Crazy Germans! A Lighthearted Guide to Germany ![]() Visions of Germany $39.99 Love the shows for the beautiful aerial shots and wonderful background music. However, the Germany Bavaria DVD has the location titles at lower left cut off, e.g., instead of seeing the label "Bodensee", only "ensee" appears, and so on, for all the town names and sights. It's not a problem with our TV: we cycled through every possible viewing format (wide, zoom, wide zoom, full, etc) and none would allow for the complete labels to appear. It seems that when the DVD was made, the picture aspect ratio was made too narrow; the package indicates it's 16:9 widescreen but it sure doesn't appear to be. If we had known this before ordering, we probably would not have bought it, as part of the enjoyment is knowing what you're seeing. We rated it 2 stars instead of 0 because of the beautiful photography but in our opinion, the disk is defective. We haven't watched the Rhine disk yet. ![]() Germany (Country Guide) $27.99 This book had very little information in that areas of Germany I want to visit. In fact for a country the size of Germany, this book is very small indeed. The Lonely Planet guide to Spain is much larger and has information on nearly every town in Spain worth seeing. There is virtually no or little information on smaller sized towns in this book. For example, there is only 13 pages and four towns exhibited in Eastern Bavaria where I am planning to vacation. That is not enough information given to this area. |
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