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Do you keep them? I know it may depend on a given area/country.
Currently using the 2003 issue for Spain & notice a few things out of date. Obs!
Also, any recommendations for a similar publication but for a particular area of Spain please? We're coming back to Estepona for all of October & the Lonely Planet guide to the whole of Spain seems a waste.
Ta.
I'll keep mine forever, I've got a couple of spectacularly battered ones that remind me of trips decades ago.
Wouldn't be much use now though!
I think of the LPs on my shelf almost as a souvenir from the trip rather that a tool for future use. Their battered state and war wounds a 'patina'. The contents a snap shot of the country I visited as it was then.
House rule here though - no LPs in parts of the house visitors might venture into. A long row of Lonely Planets in the Livingroom feels way too 'Gap Yarr' and bragging rights for public consumption.
AS above - i have a shelf full of them when i travelled far more when younger. MIne are full of tickets addresses etc.
Odd as i have more money now and travel so much less. Oh well.
I mostly check online for opening hours and hotels/restaurants. Lonely planet and Bradt for info that's slow moving
Ten years max, ideally sooner if they have updated the edition
They seem to have lost some critical perspective in recent editions, so worth keeping older ones for that.
I’ll keep mine forever, I’ve got a couple of spectacularly battered ones that remind me of trips decades ago
+1
Ours are in the living room, but glancing up I see they have been covered almost entirely with plants and photos!
I'm unlikely to go to South East Asia on a shoestring again, but the book is worth the reminder of a fun trip : )
Have old ones kept on the shelf but I wouldn't use them now since the important stuff like costs and timings of transport change, accommodation and restaurants all changed massively, especially in last 2 years.
I won't buy LP any more. They had the wonderful resource that was the Thorntree forum. An incredible resource of real world travellers' experiences and insights. They paused it during the initial covid outbreak and have decided to remove it in its entirety from public view. I am appalled at that decision, because the content was more detailed / niche info on how to go about seeing or experiencing something and even 'old' content was still valid. So I'll be buying Rough Guides for Europe and NAm and Bradt guides elsewhere.
Cheers konagirl, I’ll leave this one here & get something else for next time then. Buggered if I’m carting it home to clutter a shelf.