Sidewalk Hustle

For many years now Louis Vuit­ton has been writ­ing hon­est, lux­u­ri­ous, and most impor­tantly detailed guide books on select des­ti­na­tions around the world.

This year, the Euro­pean City Guides box set has an addi­tional eight loca­tions added to the set from last year. They are updated and expanded every year, adding new loca­tions and event list­ing, how­ever, the main areas are hotels, restau­rants, gal­leries, and fash­ion stores.

I own a set of the Euro­pean Guides from 2007 and have used them as I travel with the great­est suc­cess.  Although these books are pro­duced by a lux­ury fash­ion house, they don’t only con­tain exclu­sive and expen­sive list­ings and reviews.  They really do focus on what’s hap­pen­ing in the city and why it is rel­e­vant while mak­ing sure to give all the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion you’d find in a Lonely Planet or Wall­pa­per city guide.

I like the rib­bon place marker in each book because you don’t have to stick post-its all over the book or dog ear the pages! The even each have a very use­ful sec­tion called Keys to the City which lists impor­tant num­bers and addresses, a cal­en­dar of events, local pub­li­ca­tions and other prac­ti­cal information.

I love these guide books myself and I would rec­om­mend them to the mature cou­ple who has every­thing or as an inspir­ing grad­u­a­tion gift (about $145US for the Euro­pean set and about $37US per indi­vid­ual city). The com­plete loca­tions are as fol­lows: Paris, Bor­deaux, Deauville, Mar­seilles, Lon­don, Leeds, Dublin, Ams­ter­dam, Brus­sels, Knokke-Le-Zoutte, Geneva, Basel, Berlin, Ham­burg, Munich, Vienna, Rome, Genoa, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Lis­bon, Moscow, Stock­holm, Copen­hagen, War­saw, Athens, Mykonos, Instan­bul, Tel Aviv.

Pub­lished in Octo­ber 2009 with over 2000 new list­ings added accom­pa­nied by beau­ti­ful water­color illus­tra­tions by Ruben Toledo.