Make your own guidebook

I just picked up one of Moleskine’s new City Guides
(Paris in my case). It’s a delightful little affair. It’s the usual
small Moleskine notebook size with the trademark elastic strap and
expanding note pocket in the back. But it has a lot of special features
geared toward the active tourist:

• City maps in two different
  scales, with very refined and easy to read muted colors and gray
  shades. There’s also a street index. It’s not as comprehensive as a
  full city map (or a Paris Par Arrondissement or a London A-Z, for
  example), but good enough for most uses
• Sheets of tracing paper with adhesive at the top (like Post-It notes) to place over the maps so you can trace out an itinerary
• Metro/subway map
• Pages for planning Before Going and while-you-are-there itineraries
• Clothing size conversion charts
• Tabbed pages for noting restaurants, people, places, events etc. that you’ve experienced
• Additional blank tabbed pages that allow you to make your own categories

They
also supply a couple of sheets for noting inaccuracies so that you can
email Moleskine and let them know. And it has three separate cloth
bookmark tags (in 3 shades of gray) to mark different pages. My only
complaint, as is the case with most Moleskine books, is there’s no way
to securely slot in a pen.

Adam Richardson
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