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Freelance journalist from London, currently based in Buenos Aires. Vicky regularly writes on her blog at goinglocaltravel.com and shares tips, advice and news on travelling the local way: covering couchsurfing, hospitality tourism, travel networking and home exchanges.

In defence of guidebooks

Photo by Vicky Baker

Photo by Vicky Baker

Ok, I’m exaggerating slightly (but not much).

The reason for this apparent obsession is my job of putting together a 400-page guidebook to Argentina and Uruguay. It’s going to be a good ‘un, believe me, but more on that another time. In the meantime, I’ve been having a general think about the hard time we give guidebooks. Myself included.

Not that long ago I was close flinging a guidebook out of a window in disgust. Why?

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