[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 30, Issue 37

[Suey]

Freda is not getting my message, she wrote:

In my travels pre-internet I have found books such as Lonely Planet  
very helpful for finding interesting and off the beaten track  
restaurants and sights. I  still use these sort of guides when I'm  
traveling with the internet as a back up. One tip that I read prior  
to a trip to Venice was that in the railway station there would be  
people 'shilling' for local hotels/pensions, the man who helped me  
find a great place for little money had a small photo album and a  
map- he arranged the reservation with his cell phone and gave me  
directions. Sometimes you need to be open to different ways and trust  
strangers.
The guide books also helped me to find monasteries and convents that  
rented rooms to travelers.

Chowhound is a great site for finding restaurants. In small towns the  
sign of a good place is a full parking lot.


Freda

Tour guide books are most helful, 75% of the time. What I am saying is that our findings are not in the tour book and too cause I live where I live I can tell you a cheaper and better restaurant than the tour guide book will tell you. When we were on the road be it in Venice or Galveston we found places on our own. Those are the places I am looking for. In the SCA case only food, not historical so to speak as we must limit the topics. 
Suey