Greater Than a Tourist: Bari, Puglia Region, Italy

50 Travel Tips from a Local

De: Antonella Cariello, Greater Than a Tourist

Narrado por: Sean Lenhart

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you.

Greater Than a Tourist: Bari, Puglia Region, Italy by Antonella Cariello offers the inside scoop on the Bari region. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

You will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other travel books.

Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.

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Concise & Helpful

Lots of suggestions from a local — short but sweet! Made me more inclined to use Bari as a home base — good public transportation hub. Includes a few other locales of interest outside the city. Only negative— the narrator’s voice was annoying— would rather hear the author or an Italian accent!

fairly vacuous & poorly presented

This audiobook is just shy of useless. It rings as if it were written in the 1970s, with vague advice like the 1st tip it offers: "think of your trip to Puglia as an adventure." The remaining tips focus mainly on cathedrals (really? this is a local's advice?). No restaurants, no lodging, no hidden gems. A large public park? If I want to visit a public park, won't I find that on my own? Advice like 'Bari is by the sea, so sit by the sea and have a beer' points to no research whatsoever bearing upon this work. Meanwhile, the narrator repeatedly mis-pronounces Bari and other Italian names throughout his reading.

This is not how we seek information in the new millennium, nor is this the quality of information we seek. I can watch YouTube videos of people like me touring around Bari in hi-def, showing and telling about specific and out-of-the-way places for hours. I don't need this overstated (chapter 1 painstakingly glorifies the book series and its creator) Cliff's-notes of a recording, teaching me to be exactly a tourist.