RS Guide Books

......and, where is the RS Bulgaria guidebook to accompany the RS " Best of Bulgaria " tour?
(Sorry, I bring this up, frequently.)

........and how about RS tours ( and guidebooks) for Romania and Poland.

There will be an RS guide book for Sicily, but I’m not sure when. I follow one of his guides (Sarah Murdoch) on Facebook and she wrote about doing research for a new Sicily book. I plan on signing up for this tour in the fall of 2019, so I hope it’s out by then!

Agree with Charlie. Went on the Sicily tour last June (great tour, disappointing guide) and would have liked a better guidebook since the guide was not good on history, culture, etc. LPlanet guide was pretty bad. Think this is no longer a private company and quality is way down. R. Steve’s books are way better.

HI, Charlie. "Next summer" is the expected publication date for Rick Steves' Sicily.

I found no dearth of good books on either place (in the local library, no less)....time to think outside the box? By the way, National Geographic books are excellent, even if a few years old. Frankly, I wouldn't want someone to write a book just because they've written on other areas in Europe and I like the way they write. An author should have a special expertise in that country/region as a prerequisite for me to choose them over other book authors. Rick hasn't been knee deep in either place (by the way, Iceland has more published authors per capita than just about anywhere else). Perhaps the holdup is that he needs to have local tour guides and others participate in the book writing process (and that takes time). The Turkey and Istanbul books relied heavily on his local guides from SRM; without their input, those books would not exist.

I used the DK Eyewitness and Rough Guide to Sicily a few years ago. I was at a recent Italy class at RS with Sarah Murdoch. As mentioned here it is slated to be out next summer. Looking forward to this RS Guidebook in hopes of returning to lovely Sicily.