Travel Essays

Join two born-again Christians exploring the Old City of Jerusalem without a tour group. Experience the excitement of discovering the Hebraic roots of our faith. Visit archaeological sites and museums that strengthen our faith. Discover Jewish holidays and learn their significance to Jesus and to us. Learn about thriving churches in the Old City. Mingle with citizens of the Old City. Learn how to shop the souk and communicate with vendors. Hear the call of ancient stones from the Holy Land.

The seventh and last book in the series about eight years of travel "The Blonde around the world, or I did it my way".

After listening to this audiobook, you start to value your family and love more than ever, but at the same time, your backpacks are beginning to call for the road.

The travel notes of a girl who happened to wander a lot.

Die französische Hauptstadt hat ihren ganz eigenen Klang. Auf der Suche nach versteckten Parks und kuriosen Geschäften...

Imagine for a moment a perfect sandy beach, the deep blue Mediterranean Sea, and a warm breeze gently blowing. If this sounds like the greatest romantic setting you can think of for the most important day of your life - then Paphos is where you should be getting married. More and more couples are choosing the "island of love" for their wedding, and there are lots of reasons why. Not least because weddings in Cyprus can be up to £10,000 cheaper than a similar wedding arranged in the United Kingdom.

This remarkable guide details everything you need to know about exploring Yosemite and the surrounding parks and forests - not just the major tourist sites, but many unforgettable places few tourists ever discover. Everything you need to know about the many, many hiking and biking trails is here, as well as the beautiful rivers and lakes, the rock-climbing, the fishing, where to stay, where to eat and much more.

This guide rounds up hotels for each destination that have both a prime location and reasonable standards of comfort, narrowing coverage to those hostelries offering particularly memorable stays. Our hotel picks are categorized by price range - but you should be aware that seasonal fluctuations can be great, particularly in the resort areas.

This book is the fifth in the series "The Blonde around the world, or I did it my way".

From its inception in the 1880s, The Norfolk & Western Railway primarily carried freight but as a sideline, it always provided passenger service. A profitable, well-run company, N&W only accepted the very best. As World War II ended, N&W offered several named trains along its main line, including the Cavalier, the Pocahontas, and its daytime flagship the Powhatan Arrow.

This is a short nonfiction piece about a disheveled man following me through the streets at night in a tropical ghost town.

Learn where Orlando locals actually go to eat. If you are tired of chain restaurants then you need this guide. Orlando is a major tourist destination and yet there are some wonderful privately owned restaurants. Discover some of them for yourself with this guide.

Der akustische Reiseführer begleitet Sie zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten im Olympiapark München: der Olympiaturm, die Eishalle, das Sealifecenter und die Olympiahalle sind nur einige Staionen auf Ihrem Weg durch den Park.

Ein Prosit auf die Gemütlichkeit: München, da denkt man an Hofbräuhaus, Oktoberfest und Biergärten...

What's the dance club of the moment, the best place for a drink, the most romantic choice? You'll find all that information you need in this ultimate Bangkok nightlife guide based on the recommendations of thousands of local night crawlers.

Called by Sam Houston at its founding "the most unfortunate site upon Earth for the seat of government", the infant community struggled for three decades against political enemies and competing towns before winning recognition as the permanent capital. The founding of the University of Texas turned the seat of politics into the seat of education, but Austin's 19th-century dreams of becoming a river port and a factory town came to naught.

In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Haim Watzman took a two-week journey up the Jordan Rift Valley. Along the way he met scientists who try to understand the rift through the evidence lying on its surface, and people whose life and work on the shores of the Dead Sea and Jordan River have led them to dream of paradise and to seem to build Gardens of Eden on earth. And he discovered that the geography’s instability is mirrored in the volatility of the tales that people tell about the Sea of Galilee.

In 1989 Dave Bricker set off across the Gulf Stream, in a small sailboat, with $30 in his pocket. His voyages aboard The Blue Monk, through the Bahamas and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, are recounted in vivid prose. The Blue Monk is a journey of self-discovery set in a world of saturated colors, remarkable people, hazardous reefs, and transcendent beauty.

Even the most casual walker can step out the door of a luxury hotel onto a palm-lined beach to search for conch shells and hermit crabs, pass through the center of a busy and historically-rich port town, then enter a cactus and boulder-strewn landscape. From there, you can walk among stalks of sugarcane, or up the slopes of a lush volcanic mountain to discover crashing waterfalls and thousands of tropical flowers. All of these delights can be experienced in less than an hour's walk from major towns and tourist spots.

What's the dance club of the moment, the best place for a drink, the most romantic choice? You'll find all that information you need in this ultimate Barcelona nightlife guide based on the recommendations of thousands of local night crawlers.