Europe Travel

In Polish: Jacek Hugo-Bader once again embarks on a trip around Poland. He returns to matters, events, and places from 20-30 years ago. He meets with the people from the front pages of Gazeta Wyborcza: bandits, bums, converted, rednecks, and chosen - this is the face of modern Poland which is so easy to turn one's back to. The reporter discovers that his previous writings about these people were dwarfed by the stories which life wrote for them.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local audiobook is for you. Eat Like a Local Paris by Mackenzie Leighton offers the inside scoop on food and culinary culture in Paris. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist.

“Soviet space program Interkosmos, the Iron Curtain, General Hermaszewski, and a frenzied race between world powers” - a fascinating reportage which unveils the circumstances of the Polish flight into space in June 1978. An excellent story telling that heroism cannot be planned, it can only happen on its own.

An Insider's Guide to Venice, the captivating second book in the Insider Travel Series, is perfect for culture enthusiasts who love to stray from the tourist path. Get hooked by Marco's anecdotes and insider tips as he reveals hidden gems tucked away in narrow streets and canals—from charming cafés to lesser-known churches. Written as though the two of you were having a conversation over an Aperol Spritz, his suggestions will help you experience Venice like a local and sidestep the tourist traps with this entertaining guide.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2006, also die Epoche vor Google Maps und Social Media. In "Radreise durch Europa: Eine Reise zurück zur Einfachheit" entführt der Autor die Hörer auf eine abenteuerliche Fahrradtour quer durch Europa. Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt des jungen, mittellosen Studenten, der sich mit einer Straßenkarte, einem Zelt und einem Traum auf den Weg macht, um 2400 km von seinem Heimatdorf in Ostsachsen bis an den Atlantik nach Bordeaux zu radeln. Eine Reise voller Herausforderungen, unerwarteter Begegnungen und unvergesslicher Landschaften.

Il viaggio più affascinante è un viaggio antico, graduale, privato e sociale insieme: il viaggio in treno. I treni sono teatri, caffè, bazar. L'unico talk-show che non conosce crisi è quello che si replica quotidianamente sulle rotaie. La confidenza genera libertà: ci ha messo insieme il caso, ci dividerà una stazione. I treni aiutano a pensare. Tutti i grandi viaggi - dai pellegrinaggi cattolici al Grand Tour, dalla prima partenza con gli amici al viaggio di nozze - sono, in fondo, una scoperta di se stessi: il panorama che c'interessa sta dentro di noi.

The Tour of Flanders is Belgium's most brutal day in the saddle. The bike-crazed Flemish don't just send riders over cobblestone roads. Nor are they content to break the racers' legs with nearly 20 steep hills. No, the worst of all cycling worlds meet in Flanders with narrow, vertical roads paved with slippery, dangerous cobbles. The hills are so steep they are called "muurs", or walls, and they come one after another, for hours, until the riders are shattered with exhaustion. The Tour of Flanders is so fiendishly difficult that the man who wins it earns everlasting fame.

It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life.

The author guides us through every corner of this fascinating region, where they have spent much of their time over many years. Catalonia's Costa Brava provides stunning views, as the Mediterranean waves clash with the jagged coastline. Catelonia is marked by breathtaking cliffs, expanses of beaches, and the thriving, hip seaside city of Barcelona. In the Navarre region, men taunt large, dangerous animals for Pamplona's annual Running of the Bulls. Andorra is its own little world, and not just because it's a 290-square-mile independent principality.

"Pardon, ich bin Bahnkunde!" Wir lieben sie eigentlich, unsere Bahn. Doch leider liebt sie uns nicht. Schmerzhaft authentische und trotzdem heitere Bahngeschichten aus 25 Jahren - von jemandem, der verrückt genug war, jede Woche zwischen Köln und Berlin zu pendeln. Zugausfälle, Böschungsbrand, Personen im Gleis, defekte Klimaanlagen, Umleitungen - in den fünfundzwanzig Jahren, die Reinhard Rohn zwischen Köln und Berlin pendelte, hat er fast alles erlebt, was man sich an Bahnerlebnissen denken kann - und auch noch ein wenig mehr.

Greater Than a Tourist – Albania by Redina Zela offers the inside scoop on Albania. 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.

Greater Than a Tourist - Oporto by Mariana Lambertini offers the inside scoop on Oporto. 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. From this audiobook, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay.

Greater Than a Tourist - Malta by Dusko Arsenic offers the inside scoop on Malta. Most travel books tell you how to sightsee. 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 this travel destination. Here, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your trip.

Greater Than a Tourist: Belgrade, Serbia by Robert Tozer offers the inside scoop on Belgrade. Most travel guides tell you how to travel like a tourist. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this guide will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. You'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay.

This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain. The best-selling author Christopher Howse makes 10 great railway journeys that explore the interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets, characters, stories - and quite a bit about their eating and drinking.

When Jessa Crispin was 30, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.

Kati von Schwerin schleppt ihre große Liebe, die Stadt Berlin, zur Paartherapie. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Besuch: Berlin war prickelnd, sorglos, sexy. Doch nach zwölf Jahren großer Leidenschaft liegt nun alles in Scherben, die Liebe ist erloschen in Dreck, Drogen und Unverbindlichkeiten. Und so schleift Kati von Schwerin Berlin zur Paartherapie, um zu retten, was nicht zu retten ist. In den Sitzungen kommt alles auf den Tisch, die Hosen werden runtergelassen.

É chique morar em Paris? é uma história do nem sempre glamoroso cotidiano na França. Bilíngue, em português e francês, foi escrito pela escritora mineira Marcia Camargos, que vive em Paris desde 2016. Escrito em tom leve, ao estilo de crônica de viagem, procura mostrar as dificuldades diante de uma adaptação que nunca termina.

In Hope and Glory, Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events of the century we have just left behind that have shaped the look and character of modern Britain. From the death of Victoria to the demise of New Labour, he takes a single event from each decade of the 20th century that offers up a defining moment in our history and then goes in search of its legacy today.

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time.