Europe Travel

In Polish Short Stories: 11 Simple Stories for Beginners Who Want to Learn Polish in Less Time While Also Having Fun, you will encounter rich and new but not too complex vocabulary, which is translated at the end of the chapter, avoiding the hassle of having to stop the reading rhythm to look up every word in the dictionary.

"We are all travelers in the 'wilderness of the world' - travelers with a donkey." So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878. Alone with his pack-donkey Modestine, and showing total disregard for discomfort, Stevenson relishes to the full his walking tour of the Cevennes.

In a personal but objective narrative based on the Bounty's log, Bligh himself tells of the stormy voyage to Tahiti, his crew's insatiable attachment to the island paradise, and the incredible 3,600-mile journey to safety after the mutineers cast him, and 18 loyal crew members, adrift in a small, open boat with few supplies. Bligh's detractors say this narrative has many distortions and omissions; others judge it a remarkably dispassionate record.

Warum ist es am Rhein so schön? Das fragen sich Elke Heidenreich und Tom Krausz und brechen gemeinsam zu einer Reise auf, ausgestattet mit Literatur über den Rhein, mit Notizbüchern und einem Fotoapparat. Beginnend bei den beiden Quellen des Rheins in den Alpen, gelangen sie wandernd, mit Auto und per Schiff auf eine der verkehrsreichsten Wasserstraßen der Welt: "Wir wollten selber sehen, riechen, fühlen, hören, nachdenken, erfahren." Sie finden Geschichten, Ahnungen und sehr persönliche Eindrücke, manchmal schön, manchmal unbequem und immer faszinierend.

Shaped by many cultures, the Johanniter left the most impressive traces and gave Malta a golden age in the 17th and 18th centuries. The islands in the heart of the Mediterranean look back on 7000 years of history, which was of fateful importance for both the Orient and the Occident.

Greater Than a Tourist: Vienna, Austria by Melanie Hawthorne offers the inside scoop on Vienna. Most travel books tell you how to sight-see. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your trip. Travel like a local. Slow down and get to know the people and the culture of a place.

După succesul Însemnărilor de pe o insulă mică, Bill Bryson porneşte într-o nouă călătorie de explorare a Marii Britanii, de data aceasta de-a lungul "Liniei Bryson", un traseu imaginar stabilit chiar de el între punctele cele mai îndepărtate ale insulei. Cu mult umor, cu ironie tonică şi adesea cu melancolia pe care numai un îndrăgostit de Marea Britanie o poate resimţi, autorul ne conduce prin fermecătoare peisaje rurale, zone urbane prospere sau sordide şi locuri ale memoriei colective adesea căzute în uitare.

Ga op het avontuur van je leven met Solo Journeys, de essentiële gids voor elke vrouw die klaar is om Europa met vertrouwen, nieuwsgierigheid en een avontuurlijke geest te verkennen! Dit boek is ontworpen om zowel beginnende soloreizigers als doorgewinterde ontdekkingsreizigers te empoweren en biedt een vriendelijke, door experts geleide aanpak om de meest fascinerende bestemmingen van Europa te verkennen - van iconische steden tot verborgen pareltjes.

What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept? In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of living, this lively book takes listeners on a voyage to France through forays into literature, history, and culture. How does art contribute to daily life? Why is cuisine such a central part of French existence? Peppered with anecdotes and humor, this book uncovers some of the secrets of the celebrated French art of living well.

The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects Central Europe, flowing through and alongside 10 countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river's flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring yearlong journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe's account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate, and uniquely observant - everything one expects in the best travel writing.

Greater Than a Tourist - Seville Andalusia Spain by Robin Custers offers the inside scoop on Seville. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. From this audiobook, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay.

Welcome to the Scotland Travel Guide, a meticulously crafted compendium that beckons intrepid explorers and culture enthusiasts to embark on an unforgettable journey through the heart of the Highlands and the storied cities that define this land. This guide is your passport to a realm where history echoes through ancient castles, where misty landscapes whisper tales of the past, and where vibrant cities seamlessly blend tradition with modernity.

Committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders - through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow-juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines as he follows races big, small and even smaller, through one glorious, muddy spring. Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and the rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its Lycra-clad priests.

Greater Than a Tourist - Munich Bavaria Germany, by Velimir Ilicic, offers the inside scoop on Munich. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist: Hamburg, Germany by Nicola Coutinho offers the inside scoop on Hamburg. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay.

Greater Than a Tourist - Málaga, Spain by Zsuzsanna Udvarhelyi offers some unique insider tips in Malaga and surroundings. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination

As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived.

Having three generations of her family living under the same roof was once part of the Italian dream for Rosie. But when her party-loving, whiskey-drinking, poker-playing 85-year-old mother moves over from Ireland to Italy, Rosie’s longed for dolce vita in Umbria is anything but sweet.

In large parts of France where they don't speak English, the reception you get in the restaurant if you say "Bonsoir, avez vous une table pour quatre s'il vous plait?" instead of mumbling in English, is night and day.

All the information you could ever want on a ship is available online, or in the cruise line's brochures ... stats, weights, where the ship was built, all those dry facts and figures. When we began dreaming about taking on the Mediterranean, my mind leaped right past all that. What I really wanted to know was how real people actually did the cruise planning. I wanted to know where did they go, and what did they do, and what did they like, what did they wish that they had done differently?