Amy Van Bücher

This guide reveals Melbourne through a selection of clearly laid-out walks and tours, enhanced by beautiful, full-color pictures and a wealth of practical information. It begins with Recommended Tours, highlighting the best options for food lovers, history enthusiasts, and those interested in the bohemian scene. An engaging Overview provides essential background on Melbourne’s inhabitants, geography, architecture, food, drink, shopping, entertainment, sporting events, and local history, setting the context for the walks and tours. The Walks and Tours section features 14 self-guided routes, covering the CBD, Carlton's tree-lined boulevards, Fitzroy's eclectic streets, the green spaces of Kings Domain, upscale South Melbourne, and seaside St Kilda, with excursions to the Mornington Peninsula and the Yarra Valley. Each route is designed to maximize the Melbourne experience, catering to various budgets, tastes, and trip lengths. Clear, easy-to-follow maps accompany each tour, along with recommended eateries and insider tips, making it simple for readers to choose the perfect outing. The final Directory offers a user-friendly A to Z of practical information, along with select hotel, restaurant, and nightlife listings, guiding readers to the best that Melbourne has to offer.

City Guide Singapore is a full-color guidebook to one of Asia’s top destinations. Our Best of Singapore section recommendations will help you make the most of your time, selecting where to go for the best shopping, festivals, markets, temples and much more. In-depth essays explore the city’s history and culture, its prosperous economy, diverse population, and superb cuisine, while the Places chapters cover all the major sites, such the Civic District, where Stamford Raffles first landed, the colorful hubbub of Chinatown with its temples and markets, the gleaming shopping malls of Orchard Road, and atmospheric Little India. We provide comprehensive, opinionated hotel and restaurant recommendations for each area of the city, plus the nightlife hotspots – and of course where to shop till you drop. Our specially commissioned color photographs bring the many facets of Singapore, and its surroundings, to life. Navigation is made easy with 12 detailed color maps linked to the text by numbered dots, plus an 11-page indexed street atlas.