I love Bill Bryson! Anytime I discover a new writer I enjoy it's like my birthday, and to find out that there are more books by the same writer is like Christmas. I had never even heard of Bill Bryson until my sister who has moved to Australia for a year recommended this book to me, and I was charmed from the first page. He is funny and erudite and helped me to understand Australia much better. I think his writing actually made me more excited to visit than I already was. I'm reading Bryson's "Mother Tongue" now, and one of these first days I'm going to read "A Walk in the Woods," because I hear it's a good one as well. Yay, new books!
Fodor's Australia gave me some good ideas for what to do in Sydney, but in retrospect I think I would have like the Dorling Kindersley one better. Bygones. It's not like I ran out of things to do or had a miserable time or anything like that.
