Blue Guides

17/10/2025

𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐞
For readers who missed it before, here are Venice-resident Robin Saikia’s top bars in Venice, from his elegiac handbook 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 & 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦.

For readers who missed it before, here are Venice-resident Robin Saikia’s top bars in Venice, from his elegiac handbook Drink & Think Venice: Each chapter of Drink & Think Venice begins with an introduction to one of my favourite bars and a recommendation as to what one might drink there: the "Dri...

09/10/2025

Thanks to Alex Faludy for this review of our new title: 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐲.

Alex Faludy reviews a collection of short stories.

24/09/2025

𝐒𝐄𝐗 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐒
We are at Blue Guides were astonished when Amazon outed 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 & 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 for its explicit content.

We are at Blue Guides were astonished when Amazon outed Drink & Think Venice for its explicit content. Amazon AI tells us: “Customers find the book readable and brilliant… They appreciate the s*x scenes with one noting it’s an excellent guide to Venice’s best drinking spots.” Needless to s...

16/09/2025

Aquincum, the Roman town in north Budapest, featured in the latest issue of Antiqvvs magazine

05/08/2025

Terracotta tile with a graffito of a gladiator

04/08/2025

From the days before you just bought a standard doorway from the out-of-town warehouse

24/07/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿!

The 2007 classic Blue Guide Greece the Mainland went out of print, in its original form, many years ago. Since then to keep the title’s erudition and depth of coverage available to new readers we have been providing a black and white “print on demand” edition through normal trade channels (goo...

24/06/2025

Deianeira and the Centaur. Aquincum. 15 mins from Margaret Bridge.

11/06/2025

𝕰𝖑𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝕿𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖚𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖞
Twenty Austrian and Hungarian stories from the Golden Age before the First world war.
https://www.blueguides.com/elegant-tales-of-intrigue-and-decay/

21/05/2025

𝕎ℍ𝔼ℝ𝔼 𝕋𝕆 𝔽𝕀ℕ𝔻 𝔹𝕃𝕌𝔼 𝔾𝕌𝕀𝔻𝔼 𝕍𝔼ℕ𝕀ℂ𝔼
For reasons best known to themselves—actually probably not even known to them but only to a faceless and not very clever algorithm—Amazon UK choose to bury 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 in their search results to make it unfindable...
https://www.blueguides.com/find-blue-guide-venice/

09/05/2025

𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐨
White smoke above the Vatican recently announced the election of Chicago-born Robert Prevost as pope, the 266th incumbent of the Chair of St Peter. He has taken the regnal name of Leo XIV. The world waits to see what kind of a pontiff he will be. Meanwhile, we look at some of the other popes who have chosen the name Leo.
https://www.blueguides.com/popes-by-the-name-of-leo/