The Flying Visits Series

Cadogan has a reputation for publishing informed, cultured, conversational guides. How, then, to translate that style into a series for the time-pressed short-break traveller? Flying Visits is the answer.

Launched tentatively last year with guides to France, Italy, and Spain, the series is now being fleshed out with new guides to Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia and Switzerland. The books are structured around airports served by budget airlines. There is just about enough coverage of places such as Dublin, Geneva, Stockholm and Berlin to see you through a weekend. But if that is all you want out of them, you will be better served elsewhere (the new Directions series from Rough Guides, for instance, or the AA’s often overlooked CityPack series). Here, though, there are also detailed itineraries to get you out of town for a day or a long weekend, including places to see, shop, eat and sleep.

Flying Visits series were edited by Linda McQueen.