From Scandinavia to Turkey, Bryson retraces his youthful, solo backpacking expedition that eventually landed him in England for 20 years. His experience lends wit to this slightly ethnocentric tour of greater Europe.
Home to magnificent art museums, romance, and some of the world's most revered food, Paris is most often at the top of anyone's "must see" list. Learn to navigate the city on the Paris Metro; view the numerous masterpieces in the Louvre and Musee d'Orsay; or take a self-guided walking tour of the sights along the Champs-Elysees. With Rick Steves' ...
"Eyewitness Travel Guides" provide travellers with illustrated guidebooks where every significant location, building, museum and gallery, as well as major shops, hotels and restaurants, are shown. In addition, "Eyewitness Travel Guides" contain specially commissioned 3-D aerial maps and diagrams.
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best ways to meander around Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, explore its maze of canals, and find the tastiest breweries and restaurants? With "Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges and Brussels", travellers can experience everything Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels have to offer - economically and hassle-free ...
Before returning to the United States after 20 years in England, Bryson embarks on a farewell circuit of the country. He integrates history and reflections of his own debut tour of England in this valediction.
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to visit Lisbon, The Algarve, Salema, Evora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006", travelers can experience the best of everything Portugal has to offer - economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006" includes opinionated ...
Features of this guide to Italy include: La Scala in Milan for opera buffs; the lagoon islands of Burano and Torcello; skiing and walking in Alpi Carniche; a look at Tuscan wines; a vist to the past at Pompei; and gondola rides in Venice. There are also sections covering food, art and architecture.
This serves as the premier travel guide to the site of the 2004 Summer Games. It includes a special section devoted to the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Greece is the fifteenth-most popular tourist destination in the world. New construction in anticipation of the 2004 Olympics will mean better transportation and other improved tourist infrastructure. ...
Home to magnificent art, popes and emperors, astounding architecture, and plentiful fountains, Rome truly is the Eternal City, and travellers in the know are eternally grateful for all the useful information packed into Rick Steves' Rome 2005. Join Rick Steves, authority on travel to Europe, as he tells travellers what the real deal is, so there's ...
Looking for the best gelateria in Florence? Stumped on the proper pronunciation of "Where's the bathroom" in several languages? Find the answers and much more in one compact guidebook - Rick Steves' Best of Europe 2005. Completely revised and updated, this is a one-stop shop for all the information any traveller would need to know in several major ...
Rick Steves' Florence & Tuscany 2009 is the definitive guide to Europe's cultural capital and the surrounding Tuscan countryside. Rick includes expert advice on exploring the endless cultural sights of Florence, from the Bargello, the prison-turned-museum that houses works by Michelangelo and Donatello, to the Duomo, the Gothic cathedral complete ...
Mayle and his wife return to Provence after a brief absence. This is the novelist's third installment of essays on the joys of living in the south of France.
Rick Steves' Germany 2009 offers up the best of Deutschland, from the otherworldly castles of Bavaria to the rowdy beer halls of Munich. Rick covers the must-see sights of Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt, and also includes a healthy dose of little-known destinations in the Black Forest and Mosel Valley. With Rick's expert advice travelers can save ...
In this wonderful compendium, Christopher Winn gives a tour of the four provinces of Ireland---Connacht, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster. Find out where dreams were inspired, ideas were born, and where the unforgettable heroes of Ireland's past now slumber. A treasure trove of fascinating stories, "I Never Knew That About Ireland" is packed full of ...
Lebovitz, a pastry chef and cookbook author, always dreamed about living in Paris. This collection of recipes and observations is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to see the Dingle Peninsula, Kilkenny, Dublin, Galway, Belfast, the Antrim Coast, and Portrush? With "Rick Steves' Ireland 2008", travellers can experience the best of everything the Emerald Isle has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes, ...
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see Barcelona, the Basque Region, Madrid, Segovia, Toledo, Salamanca, Andalucia, Sevilla, Arcos, Jerez, Granada, The Costa del Sol, Tarifa, Gibraltar, and Morocco? "With Rick Steves' Spain 2006", travelers can experience the best of everything Spain has to offer, including tapas-hopping and ...
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to visit Lisbon, The Algarve, Salema, Evora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006", travelers can experience the best of everything Portugal has to offer - economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006" includes opinionated ...
Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.
Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2009 is the definitive guidebook for an affordable and unforgettable trip to Europe. Covering all the essentials and morefrom packing to transportation to foreign currencyRick's tips allow travelers to become "temporary Europeans," saving them time and money along the way. Rick also includes his personal ...
Mayle's ability to get the locals talking, his sense of humor, and his love for a good meal propel him around the French countryside to a variety of food festivals.
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to see Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, and the Norwegian fjords? With Rick Steves' "Scandinavia", travellers can experience the best of everything Scandinavia has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated coverage of ...
In BELLA TUSCANY, Mayes's follow-up memoir to UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, the author continues telling stories and describing quotidian life in her beloved Tuscany. Mayes teaches in California, spending time off in her villa in Cortona, Italy.
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to see the spires of Prague, castles of Bohemia, and villages of Moravia? With Rick Steves' "Prague and the Czech Republic", travelers can experience the best of everything this city has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated ...
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