Details Man

Working in the travel guide business conjures up visions of an exotic lifestyle - hopping on planes and trains, crossing borders to hear exotic tongues, savor strange flavors and encounter what may be even stranger ways of thinking.

But if you're the editor of a big time travel guide, you may find that the exotic trips only take place in your head as you sit behind your desk. That's where Adrian Phillips, editor of the Bradt travel guide series, found himself.

Adrian says that after a couple of years as contributing editor at Bradt he wanted to see the publishing business from the other side. So, he took four months away from his desk to travel all around Budapest and Hungary, researching every nook and cranny.

He recalls his' first visit to Hungary in the early 1990's, talks about the daunting task of gathering information for a guide book, and tells us what he likes to do, see, eat and drink when he's in Budapest for few days and not working on one of his books.

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