Europe Travel

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.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Austria. Greater Than a Tourist—Austria by Author Shane Grace offers personal insights into the best ways to maximize your stay in the capital cities and countryside of Austria. 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.

Are you ready to get on that plane? Travel can be scary and nerve racking but it can also be exciting and fun. Don’t miss out on the fun just because you don’t have travel experience! This quick and easy to read guide will help you travel around the world as if you were an expert traveler. Once you’ve read this fun book, I promise you will become a seasoned traveler. Now, get ready to board! First Stop: Beautiful Italy! The garden of the world. Enjoy your read and enjoy your trip!

Beautiful and strange, ancient monuments have long captured our attention and curiosity. We stand in awe before them, asking who created the Uffington White Horse—and why? Uncovering the enduring mystery of ancient sites, award-winning writer Peter Ross once again invites listeners to sit beside him as he celebrates their influence on art, culture and society, explores the way their meaning has evolved over time and simply delights in their magic.

The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective - inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city - while gradually revealing the truth about the fire.

A "thoughtful romance."—Publishers Weekly "A tasty smorgasbord of love and faith."—AudioFile Magazine Manhattan businesswoman Kati Dunai lives a life of international glamour. Unfortunately, she’s too busy to enjoy it. But when she visits Budapest to settle her father’s estate, the city’s leisurely culture speaks to Kati’s soul. While luxuriating in her hotel’s sensuous thermal baths, Kati is drawn to another foreigner: a Dutchman named Jan. As Jan shows Kati Budapest’s unhurried pleasures, Kati introduces Jan to a slow pace of intimacy that fuels the fires of passion. Her ...

A young doctor and his family wake to a bombed out, former home, and begin a long journey towards safety- not knowing what perils the journey will bring. A man filled with racist hatred, sets out to take the law into his own hands. Along the way he finds more than he bargained for. An idealistic girl wants to do something to help right the problems she sees in the world, but things don’t turn out as she expects. The sister of religious extremists, owned like property by her controlling brothers; is desperate to make some sort of life for herself. Politicians and the media pull the strings...

One single woman plus one perfect man make for one unforgettable holiday in Ireland. Harley's Valentine's Day was far different than she hoped. Luckily, she already had a man in mind for St. Patrick's Day. And this guy...wanted to take her to Europe. Patrick travels the world for business, but he still manages to find one night to meet up with Harley to plan their holiday. Determined to be the perfect man, he woos her like no one before. She hopes that no one will come after him. Maybe this holiday hook up will stick! One thing is certain: Harley and Patrick are getting lucky in ...

A fantastical time traveling journey bringing to life some of the world's great philosophers and exotic locals as two young lovers flee an Emperor and secrets that must be revealed. A feast for the curious reader. Bruce Lee Bond, author of Treasures of the Night,The Broken Coast, Girls Gone South, and The Babysitter Twenty-year-old Philip lives alone in an authoritarian country, his parents arrested after the imperial police find a secret notebook in their apartment. Then one evening Philip meets an uncommon girl, her name Julia, possibly on the run from the police, or sent to him as a ...

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 ...

Parliamo Italiano: Simple Traveler's Guide to ItalianEmbark on your Italian adventure with confidence and ease with "Parliamo Italiano: Simple Traveler's Guide to Italian." This indispensable phrasebook is meticulously designed for travelers, providing essential Italian phrases for various scenarios, from dining and shopping to navigating transportation and handling emergencies.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Dorset. Greater Than a Tourist: Dorset by Leah Salisbury offers the inside scoop on Dorset’s coastal hotspots.

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.

Fringe Locations is a collection of 17 distinctly diverse tales from three continents and decidedly contrasting settings, which bring to life a wide variety of characters from all walks of life: from a girl caught in a sand storm in South Africa's interior, a boy who shot his girlfriend, an environmental attorney who refused to be silenced, to stories from Müller's life: meeting the poet Allen Ginsberg, befriending a concentration camp survivor, going on a pilgrimage to the active volcano Stromboli, to his multifarious adventures hitchhiking over a ten year period. These stories traverse ...

Greater Than a Tourist - Sofia, Bulgaria by Dimitar Dimitroff offers the inside scoop on Sofia. 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.

Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’ve got Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure.

The clean air, smelling of spruce and moss in the summer and of newly fallen snow in winter, is unforgettable in Sweden. Produced by a native, this audiobook is the definitive guide to a country that's nearly 80 percent mountains, vast forests, lakes, and wilderness. But this book covers all, from cities and villages to the Midnight Sun Coast, and the islands to the Lapland area: art, culture, folklore, shopping, walks, water sports, and more.

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.

Thousands of visitors to Paris have walked through its historic and enchanting quarters with the classic Pariswalks guidebook in hand. Now you can put on your earphones, keep your eyes on the historic buildings, colorful shops, and hidden courtyards, and enjoy your own personally guided audio tour of Paris with the Pariswalks Audio Guide. Each walk is designed as a fascinating half day experience.

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.