This book is only incidentally a travel guide--though it succeeds in that effort more than one would think. Primarily, it is a satire of the type of over-earnest "Let's Go" books that, say, assume that Joe and Suzie College-Backpacker possess enough rudimentary knowledge of European history as to have of any chance of a clue of what they are looking at. Hence, in this book, each town has a "Big Old Important Historical Thing" suggested.It is quite funny, especially as it pokes fun at our Canadian cousins.It is not, however, as funny as the utterly clueless reader reviews here from scolds who took the book, as they take themselves, miles too seriously....