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An oddly unsatisfying guidebook, albeit one with lots of pictures and a pleasing layout. Essentially it covers only the best places to visit in Germany, like a greatest hits. If you want to whip through the country and just see a few places it would suit you but if you want to expand your journey at all it will be of no help. For example on the Romantic Road it devotes four pages to Rothenberg and only one very general paragraph each to a handful of other towns in the area. It's quite good on the cities: Berlin, Munich, Cologne and also Nuremberg and Heidelberg. Northern Germany is ignored completely.What I do like about it is the fact that there are heaps of pictures so it's quite a useful guide if you're deciding whether it's worth going somewhere or not. It has no accommodation recommendations but it does suggest restaurants and bars as well as shopping and some guided tours.I'm not quite sure what niche this guidebook is trying to fill but if you want a general guide that covers much of Germany then Rick Steves is better. If you want to focus on Berlin, the Lonely Planet Berlin pocket guide is excellent and there is a separate Lonely Planet guide for Munich and Bavaria that covers that area in a lot more depth. I suspect that travelling with only this guidebook would be an unsatisfying experience. It is a nice planning your route tool though.
