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The Walks Series and Similar Books

We love meandering cities as much or more than Museums. In the past we've used the Walk's Series for Florence and London. There's a different author for each book and they vary in writing style, but they are all chatty, include odd historical details about buildings and places, and take you off the beaten path without requiring transport from the main tourist district. In both places one of those walks turned out to be the highlight of our trip (at least in memory). But the series is getting quite old and in some cases hard to follow on remodeled ground. Also it doesn't cover every city. I see there is a Vienna Walks book but none for Salzburg.

Does anyone have any suggests for gossipy chatty walkers' books for either Vienna or Salzburg? I don't intend them to be a substitute for a guidebook but rather an activity book to fill a lower key quarter day or evening. I'll post in the Netherlands, France, Czech Republic, and England too, but I'm also looking for similar books about Amsterdam, Paris, Prague, and London.

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There is a "24 Great Walks in Paris" which I bought from Amazon. I love this series. I also have London, Rome and Venice.

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I own the previous edition of this one (and for several other cities):
http://www.amazon.com/City-Walks-Revised-Edition-Adventures/dp/0811874095/

This one is the most recent, but I have not had a chance to actually see the proposed walks - the thematic approach is a good idea though:
http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Paris-Footsteps-Hemingway-Picasso-ebook/dp/B007KLFI4A/

I sort through the cards at home and pick out the likeliest ones to bring. I keep them in a simple sandwhich bag. I put in my purse only the one(s) I'm aiming to use for each day.

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I took that set of cards that Diane mentions to Paris with me a couple of years back. I stayed for a whole month and must have used at least 20 of them. I liked that each walk was on one card (rather than a book) with a very clear map on one side and the highlights and descriptions on the other. It was also easy to put together a longer walk by linking up several cards by their starting and ending points.