Adventures Europe

High in a hot-air balloon, flying away, all alone. How is Suzy the cat ever going to find her way home? A heart-warming purrfect adventure based on Jill Tomlinson's classic story. Thirty minutes of audio entertainment, including story reading, soundtrack, songs and lots of listening fun all voiced by actress Sophie Aldred.

Driving on the wrong side of the road, an accident up the Alps, Force 10 storms, seasickness, being robbed of 200 euros, a brush with bats, blocked toilets and other mishaps...travelling with (or without) Don had its moments! Dawn thought her journeys abroad were over when she married Don. He flatly refused to fly. Surprisingly, plenty of opportunities to travel the globe by car, ferry, and cruise ship presented themselves. Venturing to France with Don, who has spina bifida, family friend Geoff, who’d had a stroke, and four-year-old Tim, as well as 89-year-old Harold, certainly added an ...

South Tyrol offers landscapes straight out of a picture book at any time of the year. While the peaks of the Dolomites are still snow-covered, spring is already showing itself in Bolzano with its blossoms. An audio journey about castles, palaces, beautiful nature and a feeling for South Tyrolean traditions and down-to-earthness with Italian flair.

It starts in the sixties and roars into the seventies. Across the western world, a generation strangled by their parent’s outdated values and political hypocrisy, reject the postwar affluence and take to the highways. In search of freedom and truth, the hippie generation is on the move. Disillusioned by Vietnam, Ken leaves the Army and takes to the highways, the seas, and the lure of international travel. Starting in Turkey, he explores Greece, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, indulging in all that life has to offer. Where Wild Olives Grow is a five-year experiment—a smorgasbord ...

Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join the nunnery, Romeo offers her the chance of a different life. Gradually he convinces her that only true love could make him feel this way, that he is enraptured by her beauty. Indeed, he cannot live without her!

Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronted by ex-politician Michael Portillo, and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe using George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

Ever want a dream come true year to travel around Europe? Ever want to close your eyes and wish that you could be there? Well, if so, “We’re Out in Europe” is the perfect story to read (with your eyes open). Ever want the perfect balance between story and spice? Well, ruffle your feathers, make a pot of tea, and curl up with your newest favorite story, “We’re Out in Europe.” This story is the continuing tale of, “I’m Coming Out,” and We’re Out and Proud.” Hayden and Jordan travel to Europe for a ‘Gap Year’ touring cities and landmarks most people never get to see ...

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?

UNFOLDING FURTHER continues where UNFOLDING TRAVELS left off. It is an account of ten more journeys in the author's pursuit and desire to cycle along some of the most spectacular roads and scenery the world has to offer. Despite the constraints of modern living and a chronic lack of time, the author shows that life-changing adventures should not be limited to students’ gap years or armchair accounts of explorers’ tales. With a little courage and a lot of enthusiasm, a few weeks off work is all it takes to be able to fulfil your traveling dreams. You might be a newbie or a seasoned ...

In the second entry of his compilation of the most notorious deeds in European history at his point in time, Alexandre Dumas composes an essay covering a span of nearly 300 years of strife between the Catholics and Protestants of Southern France. Dumas recounts numerous instances of bloody conflict, unruly mobs, assassination, and political turmoil as the Protestants of the region fight to live and worship as they choose and Catholics endeavor to suppress a dangerous threat to their hegemony.

You've heard all about it. You've seen all the pictures. Now it's your turn to experience the wonderful spice and flavor that is Barcelona! Passport to European Travel Guides offers this comprehensive, yet quick and concise, five-day guide to Barcelona, Spain - one of the hottest cities in Europe right now!

In France, Johnson is like an alien from another planet. Everything is strange to him. His goal is to speak French without going to prison, drive without being squashed like a bug, dance the tango without losing his marriage, and belt out a tune with a world-class jazz combo without being booed off the stage. Repeatedly, the author fearlessly steps into harm's way. He joins a summer acting troop and witnesses the French version of sexual liberation.

En esta ocasión, Cassandra, una niña de otro planeta, y Missy, la criatura más inteligente del universo, consiguen revertir el tiempo y llegar a la Antigua Roma. Allí conocerán cómo se fundó Roma, el funcionamiento de las instituciones, las costumbres de la época y por qué sus mitos y cultura han llegado hasta nuestros días.

One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau - a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow’s daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn’t know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini - master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.

DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. When a billionaire industrialist seizes control of the top-secret Destiny project, physicist Neil Aldridge must race to prevent a disaster that will claim millions of lives. His allies: an elite EU special forces team, codenamed KESTREL. As the chase leads to London, Amsterdam and beyond, they must battle a ruthless adversary: a trained killer with an unnatural ability, who seeks to hasten the cataclysm. With time running out, Aldridge discovers that he shares his enemy's power, which may be the key to salvation — or cause death on an unprecedented scale…

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Northern Ireland. Greater Than a Tourist - Northern Ireland by author Naomi Reid offers the inside scoop on Northern Ireland for tourists by a local. 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 candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Germany has historically been and still is politically, economically, and culturally influential and the largest EU member state by population and economic output. Known around the world for German engineering as well as world-leading banking and insurance companies, it is equally admired by visitors for its old-world charm and Gemütlichkeit (cosiness). Discard any perceptions of Germany as simply homogeneous, and a country of surprising regional diversity awaits.

Accompany us on our audio journey through Sicily. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean and at the same time the most diverse region in Italy, the land of gods and legends. You will discover Palermo, the Madonie also called “Sicilian Alps”, take the cable car up Mount Etna and travel along the “Via Del Sale” (Salt Road).

The Oak Island Enigma is a gripping history of the mystery of Oak Island and its "Money Pit". It details the early discoveries: the shaft with its platforms, the drainage tunnels from the ocean that fill the shaft with sea water, the many attempts to find what the construction hides and protects.

Clem and her friends Ash and Zara are members of the Thames and Tide Club! Every weekend they go mudlarking by the river, searching for treasures that have washed up on the shore. Clem has found old things, new things and a whole heap of rubbish. But one day, she finds something really special. Something magical that belongs in the river and must be returned to its rightful owner…or else. Before they know it, the Thames and Tide Club are on the weirdest, wildest underwater-iest adventure they could possibly have imagined on a mission to save Underwater London!