Garmin City Navigator NT Maps - Northwest Eastern Europe

Good Intro to the Traditional Sounds of South-Eastern Europe

Advantages: great selection, good variety
Disadvantages: somehow mistitled, mostly traditional stuff

Rough Guide, best known for their budget travel guides, has been steadily expanding in other areas, and has been responsible for quite a few musical "guides" over the years. This 1998 album, marketed as "Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe", does pretty much exactly what is says on the package: provides quite a wide ranging overview of folk and (occasionally) folk-inspired music of Eastern Europe. This is an album that pretty much started my liking for "world music" coming from my part of the world, and despite its age it remains a good compilation which really does showcase the variety of what's on offer quite well. One thing that this "Rough Guide" album needs is perhaps a better definition of what is considered Eastern Europe: this is a surprisingly woolly category (I always remember somebody commenting than Poland ...

magdadh 13.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rough Guide To The Music Of Eastern Europe, The - Various Artists

The whole of Europe!

Advantages: great software, great usability, graphics, features, lots of maps
Disadvantages: price, it was not that easy to install

If you plan to travel by car through more than one or two countries within the EU then this is the software for you. I have recently got a satellite navigator software + pda bundle, but because it was bought in Holland the only map they had was the Dutch map. Not much use for me here in the UK. I then purchased this Tomtom software and I can say that despite the high price it is well worth the money! The instructions when driving are very clear and the 3D map is very easy to use when driving. The main screen shows you a map of where you are, the roads around you and the route you need to take as well as showing your next 'move', that is, 'turn right', 'go straight', 'turn left', 'take the exit', etc and the name of the next road you will enter. It also calculates your speed, your estimated time of arrival, how many minutes left ...

ambrosurvey 02.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of TomTom Navigator 5 Maps of Western Europe Maps

TomTom Western Europe, let Jane take the strain.

Advantages: Stress free travelling, comprehensive, clear instructions, cheap
Disadvantages: Some very minor glitches in confusing bends with turns

or navigating town centres (Limoges, Sarlat etc.) can be daunting to say the least, not with Jane (oops, TomTom Western Europe). It is very hard to think of any negatives, the only one, and not such a biggie, is that sometimes she (Jane) tells you to turn right or left when really it is only a bend, or bear left or right when it is a turn. On the way home we decided to avoid Paris and go by night, no problem, night time settings dim the map, and rural roads are no problem. For our next trip we intend to go into Spain from France and we have no doubt that TomTom will deal adequately. If anyone is getting a TomTom, buy the Western Europe map, it will save you its cost on one trip, in petrol, maps and above all, stress, how on earth did we manage without? ...

paulhanton 19.08.2007 · Read full review
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