Guidebooks compared

[Tarisz]

Hello!
Can somebody please help me find a thread where the various guidebooks are assessed and compared. I used Brierley’s and Wise Pilgrim before and now on the Norte might want to buy the Village to Village guidebook. Brierley does not publish guides on the Norte and Wise Pilgrim I found was a strain on my eyes on previous walks with its minuscule print format. How does Village to Village compare to Wise Pilgrim? Or is there any other slim volume pocket-size option? I would insist on having a book in hand, not only a smart phone and apps.

 

[willydp]

Hello,
I found this: 2022
Buen Camino

 

[Adelina]

I have used Village to Village for the Portugues and the Primitivo - slim volumes with lots of information, and I prefer paper copies with Gronze as backup. Very useful guides.

 

[Tincatinker]

Hello!
Can somebody please help me find a thread where the various guidebooks are assessed and compared. I used Brierley’s and Wise Pilgrim before and now on the Norte might want to buy the Village to Village guidebook. Brierley does not publish guides on the Norte and Wise Pilgrim I found was a strain on my eyes on previous walks with its minuscule print format. How does Village to Village compare to Wise Pilgrim? Or is there any other slim volume pocket-size option? I would insist on having a book in hand, not only a smart phone and apps.

Your choices are Village to Village or Cicerone. Or one of the available apps. The Cicerone is far more comprehensive and includes most if not all all of the coastal variants. It’s comprehensive nature is reflected in its weight, 340gm.

Some might recommend buying both and annotating the V2V for the journey. I don’t make recommendations

 

[dcalonder12]

We used Cicerone in conjunction with the Wise Pilgrim app. It worked out well. Buen Camino!

 

[jrewins]

Tarisz opens up a very needed can of Camino worms here. Having a single objective summary / comparison of both printed and online guides for at least the primary routes in Spain would be a good resource for many peregrinos. If anyone knows of such a piece of work, I would welcome a peek at it’s content.

 

[Tarisz]

Tarisz opens up a very needed can of Camino worms here. Having a single objective summary / comparison of both printed and online guides for at least the primary routes in Spain would be a good resource for many peregrinos. If anyone knows of such a piece of work, I would welcome a peek at it’s content.

I was not being smart. Since Brierley, whose guides I liked a lot on the French and Portuguese route, has no book on the Norte and Wisepilgrim worked fine on the Primitivo but for its small print, I wondered how it compares to the Village to Village guide. Cicerino is a little bulky but still, I would like to have a book in hand walking the Norte.

 

[jrewins]

I apologize Tz if my response sounded condescending - it was not my intent. I think you make a very good point, and one that I share, that the many different guide book/app options can be frustrating as you can’t know which book/app will work for you unless you purchase each one. It would help to have a resource to make the selection process a little easier.

 

[Tarisz]

I apologize Tz if my response sounded condescending - it was not my intent. I think you make a very good point, and one that I share, that the many different guide book/app options can be frustrating as you can’t know which book/app will work for you unless you purchase each one. It would help to have a resource to make the selection process a little easier.

No offense. Don’t worry.

 

[janis2cats]

I bought the Village to Village for the Frances. I also had the Brierley's but didn't use it nearly as much as the Village to Village.

 

[Tarisz]

So to me it sounds as if V to V is quite user friendly. Thank you.

 

[WGroleau]

Hello!
Can somebody please help me find a thread where the various guidebooks are assessed and compared. I used Brierley’s and Wise Pilgrim before and now on the Norte might want to buy the Village to Village guidebook. Brierley does not publish guides on the Norte and Wise Pilgrim I found was a strain on my eyes on previous walks with its minuscule print format. How does Village to Village compare to Wise Pilgrim? Or is there any other slim volume pocket-size option? I would insist on having a book in hand, not only a smart phone and apps.

I bought a Michelin guide a few years ago. Really liked the format, but in my village, it listed an albergue that had ceased to exist ages earlier, and did not list the one that had been there twenty years. I suspect that with some of them, "new and revised" means they changed the date on the cover.

 

[Paul-CH]

"new and revised" means they changed the date on the cover

You can say this to any media. Even Google did show me a Hotel, which was shutdown a year before.
But I think, the last owner had other problems to solve and didn't think about the own Website and Google entries.

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

Another vote for the Village to village. I used it for the preliminary planning of my Primitivo. Found it concise, but inclusive. (By that I mean it showed all variants etc). Extremely helpful.
Took just photos of it with me. Saw several people carrying it.